sondreal wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

sondreal wrote:This program is geared toward grades K-8 (though the school also serves PS & PK).

As a prospective PS3 parent, I am interested, but do you think it's not worth my time to attend?

PS PK parents (and prospective parents) are very welcome to attend. My comment was meant to transmit that unlike our Early Childhood Open Houses – of which we've had many during the school year – this evening will be addressing all-grade issues. Sorry for any confusion.

Excellent, thanks! I am curious to learn about plans for the K-8 program and how it will work with the high school, as we are looking for a program that will be long-term, not just in PS/PK, so this should be helpful. Thanks for the clarification.

Anonymous wrote:

sondreal wrote:This program is geared toward grades K-8 (though the school also serves PS & PK).

As a prospective PS3 parent, I am interested, but do you think it's not worth my time to attend?

PS PK parents (and prospective parents) are very welcome to attend. My comment was meant to transmit that unlike our Early Childhood Open Houses – of which we've had many during the school year – this evening will be addressing all-grade issues. Sorry for any confusion.

I really hope that is not true.

I heard that the PS-5 students will no longer be taking Spanish. They'll be taking Latin, and the middle school students will be taking Spanish. I guess this will be confirmed tonight at the open house, if that's the case.

sondreal wrote:This program is geared toward grades K-8 (though the school also serves PS & PK).

As a prospective PS3 parent, I am interested, but do you think it's not worth my time to attend?

I applied and got in for my dear child. didn't even know about all this hoopla until after i accepted the spot.

haters gonna hate.

From what I can tell from the waitlists, IB seems to dominate PS/PK/K/1, but I think that's just the neighborhood baby boom. Question is whether those folks, living for the most part in apartments and working West End will stay as their kids age.

More interesting question--for those of us who don't live right there--is whether this'll become a viable MS option.

We are in boundary for FS/SWW for middle school. Still a few years off. Would love them to pull it off. Much turns around IB families getting behind them.

School Without Walls, presumably "Without Walls" somehow encapsulates its mission. Seems like stretching down to a struggling school in the same neighborhood could be win-win, though the devil is in the details.

Way to level a high bar.

Francis Stevens is a neighborhood school for 3 yr olds through middle school. It does not fees to SWW high school which is an application only school. This open house is not about the high school.

Walls is now off the table for us. I cannot believe they're doing this.

This program is geared toward grades K-8 (though the school also serves PS & PK).

Is this a good program for prospective high school students to attend?

An open invitation of interest to supporters of DC schools:

Open House
6/26, 6:30pm
Francis-Stevens Auditorium
2425 N St NW (Nearest metro: Foggy Bottom)

The Walls at Francis-Stevens HSA invites you to an open house to present the newly formed School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens to parents, prospective parents and the community at large. Meet Principal Richard Trogisch, new/returning staff, and senior administrators as they discuss their plans to make SWW@FS one of the premier elementary and middle schools in DCPS, extending the vision and academic rigor of the highly-regarded SWWHS program to grades PS-8, beginning in the 2013/14 school year.

All are welcome. Q&A will follow.

Email: WallsAtFS@gmail.com
Like the PTA on Facebook: facebook.com/SWWFS
Twitter:
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@WallsAtFS_HSA

Website (starting Sept 2013)


Chris Sondreal
Communications co-chair, Walls at FS HSA