Reply to Does anyone on Capitol Hill send their kid to an elementary in upper NW?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Does anyone on Capitol Hill send their kid to an elementary in upper NW?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound new.  Charles Allen is just one council member among 18 and has never shown much interest in ed reform (though he certainly talks the talk).

In your shoes, I'd try to lottery into Brent, Maury and Ludlow every year until I succeeded with one of them.  I'd try for Latin 1, Latin Cooper, BASIS and Inspired Teaching for middle school.

I wouldn't bother lobbying Charles Allen or lobbying pols.  We did that for years with fellow Brent parents and achieved nothing, other than launching an 60 million $ renovation of not-so-great Jefferson Academy (5 years later, still half empty).[/quote]

Current parent of a Jefferson seventh grader here. While I strongly disagree with your view of the school (I believe it is, in fact, great) you are entitled to you opinion.

But what I want to know is where did you hear that Jefferson is "half empty." If that were true, then why did 37 of the 98 kids who were waitlisted for the current school year never receive an offer? And why did [i]65[/i] of the 82 kids who were waitlisted for last year not receive an offer?

[/quote] Fact is, Jefferson still enrolls fewer than 400 students in a building renovated to accommodate at least 800 six or seven years ago. DCPS keeps numbers down, but the space is there for double the current study body.  So, yes, still half empty, and still majority at-risk students and less than half in-boundary enrollment at that.  At Brent, marvelous administration at Jefferson is no secret.  We also know that the roughly the same percentage of Brent 4th graders peel off to the Washington Latins and BASIS as six years ago.  Brent buy-in for Jefferson still isn't strong or growing substantially.  Wish things were different.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics