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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Well maybe then Weedon’s daughter should have stayed at Eastern?

To claim YOUR kid has the right to select a high academic achieving school, but MY kid has to make do at a failing school, is the height of hypocrisy. [/quote]

Oh I agree that Weedon is a hypocrite and I'm glad he's not on the SBOE anymore. But I don't think his kid should be punished, or have fewer choices than any other kid, as a result of her dad. And I also think the city would be better off if more kids went to their in-bound schools. I just think there are ways to encourage that other than restricting choice.[/quote]

How is he a hypocrite? His daughter goes to Walls and his son goes to Eastern. These are decisions made by the kids. What do want him to do, force his child to go to Eastern to align with HIS philosophy? [/quote]

What was fascinating about that story in the Post all those years ago is that it's very clear that some people DID expect him to do that, and good for him and his wife for understanding that doesn't make sense. But that story should illustrate how being very rigid about perspectives on these issues is unproductive and fails kids. Expecting all parents to send their kids to IB schools even when those IB schools explicitly do not meet the needs of that specific child is unreasonable. But expecting parents to be able to find alternatives to IB school when there are so few available and many are simply out of reach for most families (because they are restricted by limited admissions, lottery luck, location, or in the case of private schools, cost) is also not reasonable. It's great Weedon's daughter found a school in Walls that both met her needs AND was accessible to her. There are many students in DC for whom that doesn't happen, because there are lots of students who either won't get into Walls or an application HS of their choice, or will get in but it's no the right fit, but who are also not served by their neighborhood schools. Pretending the neighborhood schools are great doesn't make this better.[/quote]

I mean, people expected it because he was a loud voice expressly and impliedly arguing that we should all send our kids to the IB, no ifs ands or buts. But when the reality of HS hit him, he made and exception … for himself. Yes, he made the right choice for his kid. Nobody begrudges him that. The highly annoying thing is that his prior advocacy was all built on moral haranguing uniformed by reality. [/quote]

His son goes to Eastern.  :roll:  [/quote]

But his other kid does not. He made a different choice when it was available to him. Not sure why this is hard to understand. [/quote]

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