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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Joe Weedon will thinks Eastern is fine for everyone (except his daughter):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/they-believe-more-students-should-attend-neighborhood-schools-but-what-happens-when-its-their-child/2019/04/13/8e797690-3ed6-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html[/quote]

His daughter went to Walls and recently testified to DC Council that options for schools should be limited and more students encouraged to go to their neighborhood schools. [/quote]

Typical social justice hypocrisy [/quote]

His son does attend Eastern, which is more than I can say for any of my Hill neighbors. [/quote]

Dude already made entirely clear that he’d take Walls if possible. So just like Hill neighbors. [/quote]

I send my kids to a charter HS, as do most of my neighbors who didn’t go private or get into Walls. There are other options, and their family still stuck with Eastern. I recognize that is, long term, probably the best thing for Eastern. I’m just saying that Joe Weeden, whom I’ve never even spoken to,  at least sticks with his principles better than most. [/quote]

How does HE stick with his principals? After decades of obnoxious, preening blathering, he conceded that in fact, school choice is something Hill parents want. I won’t speculate on his son because that’s not fair; but [b]there just are not any charter options that you can start at 9th grade.[/b] But sure, glad he had a second kid so he can continue with his self-aggrandizement and expect us to forget about kid #1 embarrassingly demonstrating the limits to his nonsense. [/quote]

Cap City, Chavez*, Thurgood Marshall, KIPP*, Friendship*, Digital Pioneers*, Haynes, Washington Leadership Academy, Girls Global Academy, IDEA*, Maya Angelou*, Paul*, SEED*, Sojourner Truth, and Richard Wright would like a word. The ones with asterisks have fewer than 10 on their 9th grade waitlists, and many have no waitlist. Not saying these are necessarily all better than Eastern but there are plenty of charters and selective DCPS options for 9th graders. [/quote]

Thanks for making my point for me. None of those are strong or even decent academic choices. [/quote]

If your kid can only succeed when surrounded by tons of kids from rich and well-educated families, you have a point--and you should probably look at private, or at least a public in a very wealthy area. But there are kids doing well at all of these charter schools (look at the Coke Scholar from Cap City, for example), other charters (DCI and Latin, for example), and in DCPS too. Using public schools in a city that is majority-minority and has high child poverty rates is going to be different than the experience in a more wealthy and homogenous suburb. That's not to say DC schools are perfect--I'd make some very big changes if I were the DCPS chancellor! But if you turn your nose up at a dozen + schools educating thousands of kids and don't think any student is getting a decent education, I'd have to disagree.  [/quote]

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