Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bump this thread up. The frictions between the new principal and teachers/PTA are enhancing at Wyngate. While parents have kept on reporting the situation to her boss, his attitude was basically "training her is my job" to shovel the dirt under the carpet again and again. Now teachers may carry a strike or mass leaving next semester, and parents are devastated. Where to go next? Any experience or suggestions from this board?

Y’all wanted her out and now you’ve driven her out. Gonna be hard to find good candidates if you don’t even allow your leader a year to settle in without going to her Director, who will obviously take the comments to heart, especially being in a more well resourced area. Finding your stride in administration takes time. Hope you’ll find someone better

She started at Wyngate in July 2021.

Anonymous wrote:Bump this thread up. The frictions between the new principal and teachers/PTA are enhancing at Wyngate. While parents have kept on reporting the situation to her boss, his attitude was basically "training her is my job" to shovel the dirt under the carpet again and again. Now teachers may carry a strike or mass leaving next semester, and parents are devastated. Where to go next? Any experience or suggestions from this board?

Y’all wanted her out and now you’ve driven her out. Gonna be hard to find good candidates if you don’t even allow your leader a year to settle in without going to her Director, who will obviously take the comments to heart, especially being in a more well resourced area. Finding your stride in administration takes time. Hope you’ll find someone better

Anonymous wrote:Bump this thread up. The frictions between the new principal and teachers/PTA are enhancing at Wyngate. While parents have kept on reporting the situation to her boss, his attitude was basically "training her is my job" to shovel the dirt under the carpet again and again. Now teachers may carry a strike or mass leaving next semester, and parents are devastated. Where to go next? Any experience or suggestions from this board?

The current Wyngate principal was just appointed as the new principal at Goshen. So Wyngate will be getting a new principal.

Bump this thread up. The frictions between the new principal and teachers/PTA are enhancing at Wyngate. While parents have kept on reporting the situation to her boss, his attitude was basically "training her is my job" to shovel the dirt under the carpet again and again. Now teachers may carry a strike or mass leaving next semester, and parents are devastated. Where to go next? Any experience or suggestions from this board?

Anonymous wrote:Super-duper cliquish, as per multiple friends who moved in-bounds or have other interactions with the school community. It may be “excellent” in terms of test scores, but the friendliness leaves a lot to be desired.

I would 100% say the opposite. I am from across the country and not from a wealthy background and I find the other families almost entirely really nice and welcoming. It's very supportive and most parents really try to help each other out with things like car pool etc. There may be a clique but if so I'm largely oblivious to it because I'm spending my time with the parents who are NOT cliquey. One thing that I was surprised by -- there is a large international contingent. There is also a large number of parents who are scientists, which surprised me for the DMV, as I usually expect lawyers and policy wonks (which we do have), but also many scientists and a few military families from Walter Reed or the armed forces college that is nearby.

Anonymous wrote:Super-duper cliquish, as per multiple friends who moved in-bounds or have other interactions with the school community. It may be “excellent” in terms of test scores, but the friendliness leaves a lot to be desired.

Test score averages aren't a strong indicator of how your kid will do at a particular school. That's more related to parental income and education.

Super-duper cliquish, as per multiple friends who moved in-bounds or have other interactions with the school community. It may be “excellent” in terms of test scores, but the friendliness leaves a lot to be desired.

Anonymous wrote:Whitegate IS a large ES, renovated to 801 a few years back. Excellent school, great reputation, attends North Bethesda MS and Walter Johnson HS, both also excellent

I'm wondering whether this typo was accidental or accidentally-on-purpose.

The 2021-2022 at a glance for Wyngate ES shows

White: 56.1%
Asian-American: 14.8%
Hispanic: 14.0%
2+: 10.8%
Black: <5.0%

MCPS ES overall is

White: 24.0%
Asian-American: 13.7%
Hispanic: 34.8%
2+: 5.3%
Black: 21.8%

Whitegate IS a large ES, renovated to 801 a few years back. Excellent school, great reputation, attends North Bethesda MS and Walter Johnson HS, both also excellent

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wyngate is a high performing school. Which grade(s)?

Because it has very, very few students from low-income families.

Restating the obvious? The one scientifically proven correlation with high educational performance is high income.

Anonymous wrote:Wyngate is a high performing school. Which grade(s)?

Because it has very, very few students from low-income families.

Large class sizes and this
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1106929.page

Wyngate is a high performing school. Which grade(s)?

Anonymous wrote:Moving to the area and are looking at a few homes that are zoned for Wyngate. Please share your personal experiences and the good/bad of enrolling our child into such a large elementary school.

Wyngate is not a large elementary school, for MCPS. The preferred range of enrollment is 450 to 750 students in elementary schools. I believe that all the new elementary schools are built for 750 students.

Moving to the area and are looking at a few homes that are zoned for Wyngate. Please share your personal experiences and the good/bad of enrolling our child into such a large elementary school.