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Anonymous wrote:the students likely won't have any phone numbers for Ms Martin other than the office number.

But if she misses a deadline the students should be able to go to print.

depends on how her instructions are worded
'go ahead unless I tell you to stop' vs 'don't publish without my OK'

Anonymous wrote:the students likely won't have any phone numbers for Ms Martin other than the office number.

But if she misses a deadline the students should be able to go to print.

the students likely won't have any phone numbers for Ms Martin other than the office number.

The Post's Erik Wemple just weighed in on the Martin v. Beacon:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/08/31/d-c-principal-says-prior-newspaper-review-keeps-students-safe-and-protected/

I love his advice to the student journalists:

"A piece of advice from the Erik Wemple Blog to the staff of the Wilson Beacon: Get busy. Write 40 articles a day; cover everything from that huge pool to the traffic outside to the bus stop to the offerings at that high-priced grocery story around the corner. Send it all to Martin, each update in its own e-mail. Include deadlines for the principal to sign off. Pressure her if she doesn’t meet her deadlines. Call her cellphone, her home phone. If she wants this job, in other words, she can have it."

Anonymous wrote:senior class in the 300's, sophomores near 400 I think

I thought the sophomore class was around 460...but a jump of 300 students per year seems unreal, Deal JUST expanded, so it's not from there...Are all the charter and private schools empty???

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Anonymous wrote:Just got a more accurate count from a Wilson teacher--at least 740 freshmen.

That's crazy, if true--about 50 percent more than expected, if I remember correctly from our tour that 450-500 freshman were expected. Where could all of those extra kids have come from? I thought Wilson stopped taking out-of-boundary students because of overcrowding? Even if an unprecedented number of in-boundary freshman came to Wilson from Latin, Basis, and private schools, it can't possibly account for this large a change.

If you recall, last year the chancellor came out with a plan for ensuring attrition at Wilson--stuff related to not letting in siblings of OOB Wilson students, not allowing in students who aged out, and another new "policy" or two (can't recall now...maybe something to do with truancy?). I'm guessing these policies weren't put into place. AND if you do a little auditing, I wonder if it would review that some OOB students were allowed to enroll...DC is sort of infamous for its favors.

Anonymous wrote:Just got a more accurate count from a Wilson teacher--at least 740 freshmen.

That's crazy, if true--about 50 percent more than expected, if I remember correctly from our tour that 450-500 freshman were expected. Where could all of those extra kids have come from? I thought Wilson stopped taking out-of-boundary students because of overcrowding? Even if an unprecedented number of in-boundary freshman came to Wilson from Latin, Basis, and private schools, it can't possibly account for this large a change.

senior class in the 300's, sophomores near 400 I think

Anonymous wrote:Just got a more accurate count from a Wilson teacher--at least 740 freshmen.

It's not 900 but more than I thought. I'm a Wilson parent and hadn't really been staying on top of the numbers. I always thought all the classes were roughly 500 students each.

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Anonymous wrote:
This isn't an aside for me. It's the same teacher that is supposed to be teaching honors pre-calculus. They have a sub in there now and its horrendous.

Sorry to hear your child is in that class, DC is going to share notes and homework assignments with friends in the affected class

This is a great idea - I'll see if my DC can find friends in other classes. What I can't find though is a current teacher list....anyway the principal coffee next week should be fun.

Just got a more accurate count from a Wilson teacher--at least 740 freshmen.

Martin did a stupid thing by messing with the cohort that carries Wilson. If you think Wilson helps those kids you're crazy. It hurts them. Their parents make the difference. If they depart Wilson becomes another Ballou and then Principal Martin will have an excellent topic for her thesis.

Seems they are short at least 3 teachers. But whether this is due to a cumbersome hiring policy, the budget cuts from earlier this year, or lack of timely registration of students is still unkown. Or it could simply be that noone was on top of hiring. I know one year, a chemistry class was completely screwed up due to a teacher quitting in the first weeks of school

Anonymous wrote:Teachers quit last minute. DCPS needs to change the policy. It happens at other schools too.

What policy?

Teachers quit last minute. DCPS needs to change the policy. It happens at other schools too.