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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does honors for all mean in practice?[/quote]

All kids no matter where they are academically are placed in the “honors” classes.  Kids can be 3-4 levels apart, maybe more.

It’s true that it’s honors for none.  The course is dumb down for the lower performing kids and the higher performing kids are bored to death.

Why don’t you ask the Wilson parents whose kids have gone thru 9th grade with it.  To many, it’s a wasted year.  Now 10th grade is honors for all....[/quote]

Math is leveled. Foreign language is leveled. And 73% of Wilson students scored 3/4/5 on PARCC ELA. I'm fine w/honors for all for the introductory high school classes. By 11th most of the 'honors' students will be in virtually all APs anyway. They can also pursue dual-enrollment courses at Georgetown or Catholic University.[/quote]

This is not strictly true. Dual enrollment at Wilson is only an option in 12th grade except maybe you can do a class at UDC CC in 11th. Also, dual enrollment has limited seats and you can only do 1 course a semester through it. Finally it is a real pain to leave school in the middle of the day and head over to GW, Georgetown, Catholic or Howard.

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Then go to an application school. You can't have it all, and you should have known that when decided to live in the city with children. [/quote]

Wow.  Way to totally miss the point.  I would say most of us that have kids at Wilson are aware of that and we understand that their will be disadvantages to be had.  That doesn't mean that we can't continue to work for ways to make it work better.  Not just for our advantaged/smart kids but for ALL of the kids who go there.  And hopefully, all DCPS students.  Anything that improves DCPS can be good for all the kids.  I personally would love to get rid of all the Charter/application schools except for a few special instances.  Can you imagine what would happen if all those high maintenance parents and motivated kids were in DCPS??  It could lift the entire system.

Finally...love living in the city with children and never regret it but I will continue to bitch about Wilson and the idiocies of DCPS Central office as long as I like![/quote]

Then you are a unicorn. Most of your neighbors are interested in further segregating the dwindling number of at-risk and lower SES students at Wilson; it's all over this thread and it comes up every single time there is a discussion about overcrowded, changing boundaries, ending feeder rights, and ending OOB enrollment.

The students are Wilson, at least so far as you can tell by coverage in the Beacon and talking to them, are very concerned about the quickly changing demographics in their school. The problem is the Wilson student body reflects the lack of economic diversity in their neighborhoods. 
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You are truly just wrong about this. You are reading into people's desire to end crowding and improve the schools what you seem to want to see there. Your own lens is just as tainted.[/quote]

NP. Disagree. If you have been to the meetings, there are parents who stated they do not want their children to attend school with “those” kids. It was extremely clear what she meant.[/quote]

So you are generalizing based on what one person said?[/quote]

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