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NP - Principal Martin's decision to eliminate AP World History as an [u]option[/u] for 10th grade was the last "Honors for All" straw for our family. Last year we sent our straight A Deal student to Walls instead. We did not choose Walls; we effectively were driven from Wilson. At Wilson academically strong students are slow rolled for two years (9th & 10th) in "Honors for All" and then placed into large AP classes with 30+ students their last two years (11th & 12th) so that the on-level classes for juniors and seniors can be limited to no more than 20 students. The school's policies are no longer designed to meet the needs of academically strong students (which I believe is unethical) and as such it does not surprise me that Wilson's placements into top schools have begun to slip. [/quote]

Thanks for the info. This is precisely the type of information one potential parent/student needs. If there are no opportunities for academically-driven students to take, then it is more than natural that one may choose another school. Maybe that's the endgame of DCPS, who knows? However, the idea that parents are insensitive to the quality of the curriculum and of the placements is naïve at best. If the school underperforms then some students won't come.[/quote]

PP, it sounds like you are looking for an excuse to not send your kid to Wilson, and are willing to seek that excuse from an anonymous group of randos rather than talking to actual parents.  That's fine - you don't have to send your kid to Wilson, and you can justify it however you want - you don't need anybody's permission to send your kid to Walls or move to MD or do whatever you think is best.[/quote]

DP:  The real problem is finding a reason to be excited about Wilson.  HS options in DC are scant, and this is the biggest of the ‘good’ options.  And yet it is so unimpressive.[/quote]

Again, it's up to you PP.  During my time as a DCPS parent, I've met lots of parents like you - you have a savior complex, and want people to put on a show and beg you to send your kid to a DCPS school.  I've been there, done that, at my kids elementary and middle schools, and it's not necessary at Wilson.  There are plenty of fantastic kids from deeply involved families at Wilson, and they get a fine education and then move on to success at excellent colleges.  We'd love to have you and your family be part of that.  But if not, that's OK, it's your choice.  [/quote]

LOL.  I’m not looking to join a sorority.  I just wish that DCPS provided a solid and challenging public education to all students, as is its civic and moral responsibility.  But D[b]CPS, and Wilson in particular, seems happy just letting top students have to go elsewhere, as though they weren’t citizens and taxpayers too.[/b][/quote]

This is not correct PP.  There have been multiple posts on this thread from the parents of those students explaining that they sent their kids to Wilson, and that they had a perfectly fine experience.  There are dozens and dozens of top students at Wilson, if you bother to make the effort to look.  But you don't want to see or hear that - you appear to have made up your mind, and no amount of evidence will convince you otherwise.  [/quote]

There are parents who have posted in this thread about their disappointing experiences, too.  And the data posted indicates that there are not top students at Wilson getting into top colleges, whatever the reasons.

But it seems you don’t want to see or hear that.  [/quote]

+1  Numbers don’t lie.  There are not alot of top performing students at Wilson.  Have you seen the most recent PARCC scores?  I don’t recall it ever being so bad.

Almost 50% of the kids are below grade level in ELA.  75% of the kids are below grade level in math.  On top of these terrible numbers, only about 1/4th of the students are above grade level in ELA and only a measly 3% are above grade level in math.

Compare above to past numbers.  Wilson is definitely losing top performing students whose families have chosen other options for HS.

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My DC consistently failed PARCC. Every year. DC was in top 10% of his class. Lo and behold DC later scored a 34 on the ACT with a perfect score in one subject. While it annoys me to no end, and this is but one example, I wouldn't go by this metric. There's not a lot of incentive to do well on the PARCC unfortunately. DC is now at a top-25 college and doing fine. [/quote]

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