Reply to Why can’t Watkins get traction with Capitol Hill?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Why can’t Watkins get traction with Capitol Hill?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The boundary is too big and weirdly shaped. Most people within the boundary are closer to another school on the Hill, so they go there instead. Watkins then becomes a school for Ward 7 and 8.[/quote]

This. We are zoned for LT, but less than two blocks away, some are zoned for Watkins. A 2nd grader can't walk all the way there!  
Also, having siblings in different buildings is awful. They need to redraw the boundaries Pronto.[/quote]

Well having siblings in different buildings is fine if they are near each other, which is why you see quite a few families that lottery into L-T with proximity preference for 1st but their younger sibling may finish out at least PK at Peabody. The commute between those schools is super easy -- it's just a few blocks and one parent could do it within the drop off window, on foot.

That's not possible for Peabody and Watkins, I don't understand why that's ever been tolerated, to be honest.[/quote]

There were buses that ran from each school to the other every morning and afternoon, from the time the Cluster was created to the pandemic. My kids used those buses the entire time we were in the Cluster. It was how my kid at Watkins was able to do aftercare with his sibling at Peabody so I could pick up in one location. [/quote]

Once they killed the bus the Cluster stopped making sense. It’s not possible to do with two kids of close age, or if you live one the edge of the boundary.[/quote]

Why would they get rid of the bus?[/quote]

Because the leader of Watkins at the time thought the bus was not equatable because families from ward 7 & 8 didn’t have a bus to school. So why should the families from ward 6 who obviously had the means to get their kids school get one. So she didn’t fight for it or back the PTA who was fighting for it.

SHE WAS THE WORST![/quote]

+1. The lack of the bus is the real reason Watkins has fallen apart. I sent my kids through the school and there is no way I’d have done that without the bus. [/quote]

+2. My house and office are near Peabody. It was so convenient to take my little one Peabody and put my older one on the bus to Watkins, and then pick them both up at Peabody at the end of the day. Peabody and Watkins are way too far apart to make dual drop offs feasible. I’d just send them both to LT now.[/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