Anonymous wrote:Why do parents fight among one another and blame each other for Wilson’s problems instead of holding central office and the Wilson administration accountable? For all the money DCPS spends, they have not been able to improve the high school situation even a tiny bit. Is all the talk about equity even doing anything for kids at Anacostia and Ballou in terms of education? Wilson gets ignored by DC for what purpose? Anacostia HS is less than 250 kids. Ballou is about 550 kids. Given its size, Wilson probably has more kids coming from difficult backgrounds than both Anacostia and Ballou combined. Yet Wilson is overlooked and ignored because it is considered a school for wealthy families only. Really sad and depressing situation.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid takes the Wilson bus from Shepherd Park and I drive him more times then I care to admit. Yes, there are many AA kids from Shepherd Park that attend Wilson. Why is this a debate?

Because people are tied to the narrative that there are no middle class black people attending Wilson.

Signed - AA Wilson parent

This!

Also, there are people who use the "not that many SP families go to Wilson" as an argument against rezoning the area to Wells and Coolidge. They say very few kids go to Wilson so it won't help with overcrowding. If there were a lot of SP families sending kids to Wilson, then it could further the argument to rezone the neighborhood.

Sure there may be 20 kids a year (so 80 total form Wilson) from SP. If you remove OOB and SP kids from Wilson, the school becomes 85% overnight. I imagine that is the goal for most people that self segregate to AU Park etc. Funny because 15 years ago, it was the OOB brown kids that literally kept Deal and Wilson open.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid takes the Wilson bus from Shepherd Park and I drive him more times then I care to admit. Yes, there are many AA kids from Shepherd Park that attend Wilson. Why is this a debate?

Because people are tied to the narrative that there are no middle class black people attending Wilson.

Signed - AA Wilson parent

This!

Also, there are people who use the "not that many SP families go to Wilson" as an argument against rezoning the area to Wells and Coolidge. They say very few kids go to Wilson so it won't help with overcrowding. If there were a lot of SP families sending kids to Wilson, then it could further the argument to rezone the neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid takes the Wilson bus from Shepherd Park and I drive him more times then I care to admit. Yes, there are many AA kids from Shepherd Park that attend Wilson. Why is this a debate?

Because people are tied to the narrative that there are no middle class black people attending Wilson.

Signed - AA Wilson parent

This!

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, Wilson is uniquely positioned to fail over the next 12-18 months due to years of lack of political will that make this type of school helpless to meet the challenges presented by pandemic. Half of the student population is heavily dependent on mass transit which makes it unsafe to open for at least a year. And, in order to provide reasonably effective on-line instruction it requires that students be generally grouped by academic level, which, for political reasons is far from the case at Wilson. It’s hard enough to provide in-person instruction to kids with wide ranging skills. It’s almost impossible to do on line, especially for teachers who have never done it.

This is not unique to Wilson. Stop with the drama.

There is so much drama around Wilson and Deal being big. I’m not sure why parents think they can recreate their own high school experience in the Midwest or wherever in a large city.

Sending kids to overcrowded schools when other schools are under-enrolled is bad management. And in the case of Wilson and Deal it is the result of blatant racism and classism.

DCPS parents who send OOB kids to Wilson and who fight to avoid getting rezoned out of Wilson are racist, classist, or both. There is no other way around it.

Ditto for parents who buy a huse in the Wilson distract because of the schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, Wilson is uniquely positioned to fail over the next 12-18 months due to years of lack of political will that make this type of school helpless to meet the challenges presented by pandemic. Half of the student population is heavily dependent on mass transit which makes it unsafe to open for at least a year. And, in order to provide reasonably effective on-line instruction it requires that students be generally grouped by academic level, which, for political reasons is far from the case at Wilson. It’s hard enough to provide in-person instruction to kids with wide ranging skills. It’s almost impossible to do on line, especially for teachers who have never done it.

This is not unique to Wilson. Stop with the drama.

There is so much drama around Wilson and Deal being big. I’m not sure why parents think they can recreate their own high school experience in the Midwest or wherever in a large city.

Sending kids to overcrowded schools when other schools are under-enrolled is bad management. And in the case of Wilson and Deal it is the result of blatant racism and classism.

DCPS parents who send OOB kids to Wilson and who fight to avoid getting rezoned out of Wilson are racist, classist, or both. There is no other way around it.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, Wilson is uniquely positioned to fail over the next 12-18 months due to years of lack of political will that make this type of school helpless to meet the challenges presented by pandemic. Half of the student population is heavily dependent on mass transit which makes it unsafe to open for at least a year. And, in order to provide reasonably effective on-line instruction it requires that students be generally grouped by academic level, which, for political reasons is far from the case at Wilson. It’s hard enough to provide in-person instruction to kids with wide ranging skills. It’s almost impossible to do on line, especially for teachers who have never done it.

This is not unique to Wilson. Stop with the drama.

There is so much drama around Wilson and Deal being big. I’m not sure why parents think they can recreate their own high school experience in the Midwest or wherever in a large city.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, Wilson is uniquely positioned to fail over the next 12-18 months due to years of lack of political will that make this type of school helpless to meet the challenges presented by pandemic. Half of the student population is heavily dependent on mass transit which makes it unsafe to open for at least a year. And, in order to provide reasonably effective on-line instruction it requires that students be generally grouped by academic level, which, for political reasons is far from the case at Wilson. It’s hard enough to provide in-person instruction to kids with wide ranging skills. It’s almost impossible to do on line, especially for teachers who have never done it.

This is not unique to Wilson. Stop with the drama.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid takes the Wilson bus from Shepherd Park and I drive him more times then I care to admit. Yes, there are many AA kids from Shepherd Park that attend Wilson. Why is this a debate?

Because people are tied to the narrative that there are no middle class black people attending Wilson.

Signed - AA Wilson parent