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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wilson may be “diverse” but for the most part, the white kids and the black kids do not socialise together. There is some mixing but not as much as you would expect. I don’t think you can force this stuff. Also, the principal seems to hate that Wilson is supposedly a neighborhood school as she is always complaining  about all the entitled white kids. She keeps wanting to create more on-level (not challenging) classes for the lowest performing kids and has no interest in more advanced options for kids who need more than what Wilson is offering.[/quote]

Much of what you wrote is just not true.
Signed, current Wilson parent[/quote]

Another Wilson parent here and I don’t think it is wrong at all. Principal has communicated many times that she has no issues with overcrowding as she wants Wilson to be open to students from all wards. That is not her decision to make. [b]Wilson is supposed to be a neighborhood school[/b]. She often refers to the ward 3 parents as annoying and entitled. I don’t think that is cool. [/quote]

No, Wilson is supposed to comply with feeder and boundary policies set by our elected officials, which the schools is doing.  Nowhere is it written that Wilson is "supposed to be a neighborhood school."[/quote]

Also, in what context does the Wilson principal "often refer to ward 3 parents as entitled and annoying"?  I've never heard that, and I can't imagine in what situation I would heard that.  Did you just pull that out of your @ss?[/quote]

Nope. I read all her newsletters from August to December and she is always scolding the neighborhood parents. Do you read them? She pretty much said that overcrowding is not something she wants to do anything about as she does not want to reduce the number of AA kids at the school. Also, that other principals always tell her that they would never want to be at Wilson because of the annoying and hyper parents, etc. [/quote]

I did read the newsletters.  Saying that she's concerned about shrinking boundaries because of the segregating effect that would have is not the same thing as calling ward 3 parents entitled and annoying.  The fact that you take "entitled and annoying" from that concern makes me think that you may have an entitled and annoying attitude.  The school boundaries are what our (all of our) elected officials have determined them to be.  Literally by definition upper NW parents aren't any more entitled to have their kids attend Wilson than any other group currently part of the feeder structure.  You assume that you are more entitled based on proximity, but by definition you are not.  If you would like to enshrine some "more entitled" status into the rules, you're welcome to lobby elected officials for that,  but that's a political argument.[/quote]

I have low tolerance for people on DCUM complaining about specific administrators & teachers, but she doesn't seem like she's that great. Why would she be taking positions on hot-button issues like boundaries in monthly school newsletters?  Her job as principal is to guide discussion and make sure all voices are heard, at least in the beginning.  [/quote]

Her job is relentlessly to drive academic quality and educational achievement higher.  If she wants to advocate her private political views, then she should leave DCPS and try punditry.[/quote]

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