Anonymous
08/10/2024 21:48
Subject: Grading at Walls
Do kids who get an associates degree at GW finish their BA there or do they apply to other colleges?
Anonymous
08/10/2024 21:15
Subject: Grading at Walls
There are two programs with GW. One is a two-year program ("GW Early College Program"), leading to an Associates' Degree, that accepts 15 SWW students a year and essentially replaces their junior and senior years. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0f425c4f3ed4b48c52995/t/5f454a9410072376c1398c41/1598376597331/What+is+the+GWECP.pdf
The second ("School Without Walls Exposure Program") enables SWW students to take one (or maybe sometimes two? not sure) class per semester at GW. https://nondegree.gwu.edu/school-without-walls
The second ("School Without Walls Exposure Program") enables SWW students to take one (or maybe sometimes two? not sure) class per semester at GW. https://nondegree.gwu.edu/school-without-walls
Anonymous
08/10/2024 20:01
Subject: Re:Grading at Walls
Anonymous wrote:Nope.
The dual enrollment program at GW is only open to a small number of selected rising seniors (and they can be from any DCPS school and, I assume, charters as well if they go through DCPS--not just Walls). They take 1 course in the fall semester and, if they do well, they can take up to 2 courses during the spring semester. GW only allows students to enroll in certain lower-level courses (1000 and 2000 level), and those are only available if there is space after GW students have signed up. So, yes, you could easily end up taking Islamic history up to the year 1500 or some other less popular course.
https://nondegree.gwu.edu/dcps-dual-enrollment
Walls actually has its own program with GW in addition to the DCPS-wide one. I don't know much about it because my Walls kid wasn't interested (though they have taken 2 courses at GW so far)
Anonymous
08/10/2024 17:02
Subject: Re:Grading at Walls
Anonymous wrote:Nope.
The dual enrollment program at GW is only open to a small number of selected rising seniors (and they can be from any DCPS school and, I assume, charters as well if they go through DCPS--not just Walls). They take 1 course in the fall semester and, if they do well, they can take up to 2 courses during the spring semester. GW only allows students to enroll in certain lower-level courses (1000 and 2000 level), and those are only available if there is space after GW students have signed up. So, yes, you could easily end up taking Islamic history up to the year 1500 or some other less popular course.
https://nondegree.gwu.edu/dcps-dual-enrollment
What is your ‘nope’ in reference to?
Anonymous
08/10/2024 16:49
Subject: Grading at Walls
Oh…I know JR kids who are signed up to take classes at GW in the fall. It’s probably easier from Walls given its proximity but it sounds like the regular DCPS dual enrollment program.
Anonymous
08/10/2024 13:59
Subject: Re:Grading at Walls
Nope.
The dual enrollment program at GW is only open to a small number of selected rising seniors (and they can be from any DCPS school and, I assume, charters as well if they go through DCPS--not just Walls). They take 1 course in the fall semester and, if they do well, they can take up to 2 courses during the spring semester. GW only allows students to enroll in certain lower-level courses (1000 and 2000 level), and those are only available if there is space after GW students have signed up. So, yes, you could easily end up taking Islamic history up to the year 1500 or some other less popular course.
https://nondegree.gwu.edu/dcps-dual-enrollment
The dual enrollment program at GW is only open to a small number of selected rising seniors (and they can be from any DCPS school and, I assume, charters as well if they go through DCPS--not just Walls). They take 1 course in the fall semester and, if they do well, they can take up to 2 courses during the spring semester. GW only allows students to enroll in certain lower-level courses (1000 and 2000 level), and those are only available if there is space after GW students have signed up. So, yes, you could easily end up taking Islamic history up to the year 1500 or some other less popular course.
https://nondegree.gwu.edu/dcps-dual-enrollment
Anonymous
08/10/2024 10:47
Subject: Re:Grading at Walls
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ah. Well that would be annoying if all kids in GW program got a 1 point bump for every single class they took at GW (in 11th-12th). Not a fair comparison. Better option would have been to remove the 15 kids per year in GW program from global high school class ranking …..
What are the GW kids? Can’t all Walls kids take GW classes?
These are kids in the GW program (I can never remember the official name). They take all GW classes junior and senior year. They essentially don’t attend Walls anymore in terms of academics.
Anonymous
08/10/2024 10:33
Subject: Grading at Walls
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…
Is this at Jackson Reed? I’m not sure I believe it. Their AP Physics teacher is a rockstar or so I was told
The teacher that teaches AP Physics C is a rock star. He also taught one section of AP Physics 1. A new teacher- a biology teacher who had never taught physics before- taught the rest of the AP Physics sections.
Oh boy. My kid is signed up to take AP Physics 1 at JR this fall. It doesn’t sound fair to make a Bio teacher teach AP Physics. Not fair to the teacher or students
Not clear if this teacher will teach it again.
JR has struggled with AP Physics 1 for many many years. It is a hard class to teach but for some reason they just can’t find someone competent to take it over
Anonymous
08/10/2024 09:22
Subject: Re:Grading at Walls
Anonymous wrote:Ah. Well that would be annoying if all kids in GW program got a 1 point bump for every single class they took at GW (in 11th-12th). Not a fair comparison. Better option would have been to remove the 15 kids per year in GW program from global high school class ranking …..
What are the GW kids? Can’t all Walls kids take GW classes?
Anonymous
08/10/2024 09:19
Subject: Grading at Walls
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…
Is this at Jackson Reed? I’m not sure I believe it. Their AP Physics teacher is a rockstar or so I was told
The teacher that teaches AP Physics C is a rock star. He also taught one section of AP Physics 1. A new teacher- a biology teacher who had never taught physics before- taught the rest of the AP Physics sections.
Oh boy. My kid is signed up to take AP Physics 1 at JR this fall. It doesn’t sound fair to make a Bio teacher teach AP Physics. Not fair to the teacher or students
Not clear if this teacher will teach it again.
Anonymous
08/09/2024 10:13
Subject: Grading at Walls
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…
Is this at Jackson Reed? I’m not sure I believe it. Their AP Physics teacher is a rockstar or so I was told
The teacher that teaches AP Physics C is a rock star. He also taught one section of AP Physics 1. A new teacher- a biology teacher who had never taught physics before- taught the rest of the AP Physics sections.
At Walls or JR?
JR
Anonymous
08/09/2024 10:13
Subject: Grading at Walls
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…
Is this at Jackson Reed? I’m not sure I believe it. Their AP Physics teacher is a rockstar or so I was told
The teacher that teaches AP Physics C is a rock star. He also taught one section of AP Physics 1. A new teacher- a biology teacher who had never taught physics before- taught the rest of the AP Physics sections.
Oh boy. My kid is signed up to take AP Physics 1 at JR this fall. It doesn’t sound fair to make a Bio teacher teach AP Physics. Not fair to the teacher or students
Anonymous
08/09/2024 04:39
Subject: Grading at Walls
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…
Is this at Jackson Reed? I’m not sure I believe it. Their AP Physics teacher is a rockstar or so I was told
The teacher that teaches AP Physics C is a rock star. He also taught one section of AP Physics 1. A new teacher- a biology teacher who had never taught physics before- taught the rest of the AP Physics sections.
At Walls or JR?
Anonymous
08/08/2024 23:53
Subject: Grading at Walls
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…
Is this at Jackson Reed? I’m not sure I believe it. Their AP Physics teacher is a rockstar or so I was told
The teacher that teaches AP Physics C is a rock star. He also taught one section of AP Physics 1. A new teacher- a biology teacher who had never taught physics before- taught the rest of the AP Physics sections.
Anonymous
08/08/2024 15:10
Subject: Grading at Walls
Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…
Is this at Jackson Reed? I’m not sure I believe it. Their AP Physics teacher is a rockstar or so I was told