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Anonymous wrote:Sure. Of course you’re glad to be in Fairfax County. That’s why you’re typing in the DCPS forum . I can safely say I have NEVER visited the VA Schools forum because I’m just not that interested.

I would not have visited the DC school forum had it not for one of my kids SAT this past weekend @Wilson HS. My DD and I brought tennis racquets to play at the tennis courts adjacent to Wilson but the courts look awful so my DD refused to play in it. I decided to go online to find out more about Wilson HS and I found out that Wilson HS swim team can't even use the swimming pool after school because it has been leased exclusively to private schools and that the Deal team has to travel to Tacoma park to swim there. If this is the best DC can offer, thanks but no thanks.

Your DD refused to play on a less than ideal tennis court? Pathetic. Sounds like your DD is an entitled brat like her mom. That still doesn’t justify why you’ve spent the last 5 days on a DC school forum. You must live a sad sad life out in the boonies.

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Anonymous wrote:I think that DCPS should offer free transportation to a less crowded option for any kid zoned to Wilson, whose parents feel that Wilson is the "crisis" that needs to be fixed in DCPS. Seems as though parents would be flocking to that option.

Except that DCPS already does offer this, through the OOB process, and Wilson parents don't take the opportunity. Why not? Because there is no "crisis" and Wilson's students are some of the best served in the city.

DCPS offers free transportation (via Metro) for all students already.

Which is why I said that DC alreadybdoes offer it?

My point is that any parent who thinks Wilson’s enrollment is the biggest “crisis” DCPS faces and worthy of resources is a hypocrite if they don’t take advantage of the free transportation to underenrolled options.

Because the kids who are left behind at under enrolled schools lose critical resources due to low head count. Because adding a daily two hour commute to a students life is two hours less they could be studying, working or volunteering. Because shuttling thousands of kids across the city is bad for the environment. Because continuing to expand Deal and Wilson is fiscally irresponsible when the city has 20,000 excess seats elsewhere in the city.

Here is the problem. It is not just about available seats, it is about the available seats, the quality of the programming and teachers AND ALSO the preparedness of the student cohort. Wilson has the cohort that no other non application DCPS high school in the city has. That is why parents want to send their kids there. That is the piece that cannot be replicated by construction or teacher hiring. That is the resource that needs to be shared in a single school. The problem is no one in a position to make decisions can say that.

But the Wilson cohort is huge and with the demographic changes that DC is undergoing it is no longer even a purely WOTP cohort.

Just a few years ago Wilson was half its current size and was a majority black school and was still very desirable.

It really is not a stretch that DCPS that you could replicate the Wilson of even 5 years ago and have more of the students at the 2nd "Wilson" attend a school in their own neighborhood.

If you duplicated the Wilson cohort at another school you'd also draw back a bunch of kids from the charters & application schools to their neighborhood HIgh School.

It really feels like a lot of people think there is some magic to attending school in Ward 3 (and have false baselines about how good Wilson actually is) - it is the demographics at Wilson that are the most important thing and with the changes in DC's population in the last 10 years it really would not be hard to duplicate the Wilson mix in at least one if not two more neighborhoods.

And if you did that Wilson (both of them) could perhaps still continue to accept low-income OOB kids who would really benefit from attending Wilson instead of all the kids from Shepherd Park and Crestwood and 16th Street Heights and Mt Pleasant etc who are responsible for a big part of the schools population growth all while attending a school much closer to where they live.

Or we just continue with this craziness and see if we can squeeze every middle class kid in the city into Wilson at the expense of the greater good and eventually their own safety and education.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure. Of course you’re glad to be in Fairfax County. That’s why you’re typing in the DCPS forum . I can safely say I have NEVER visited the VA Schools forum because I’m just not that interested.

I would not have visited the DC school forum had it not for one of my kids SAT this past weekend @Wilson HS. My DD and I brought tennis racquets to play at the tennis courts adjacent to Wilson but the courts look awful so my DD refused to play in it. I decided to go online to find out more about Wilson HS and I found out that Wilson HS swim team can't even use the swimming pool after school because it has been leased exclusively to private schools and that the Deal team has to travel to Tacoma park to swim there. If this is the best DC can offer, thanks but no thanks.

Is this true? Wilson swim team can't use Wilson pool??!!

Anonymous wrote:Sure. Of course you’re glad to be in Fairfax County. That’s why you’re typing in the DCPS forum . I can safely say I have NEVER visited the VA Schools forum because I’m just not that interested.

I would not have visited the DC school forum had it not for one of my kids SAT this past weekend @Wilson HS. My DD and I brought tennis racquets to play at the tennis courts adjacent to Wilson but the courts look awful so my DD refused to play in it. I decided to go online to find out more about Wilson HS and I found out that Wilson HS swim team can't even use the swimming pool after school because it has been leased exclusively to private schools and that the Deal team has to travel to Tacoma park to swim there. If this is the best DC can offer, thanks but no thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow --- tennis court poster really WAS right about hypocrisy. Gross.

Huh?

Deal/Janney parents mocking the idea of dealing with Wilson overcrowding by something other than getting rid of the brown kids while simultaneously mocking suburban posters for not being "urban" (as if NWDC were urban) is hypocritical and gross, more so when it includes a slight racist dog whistle.

Pretty simple really.

Do you think every conversation is about race?

I am glad to stay in the Langley HS bubble of FCPS. At least, in FCPS, each school has its own wonderful athletic facilities unlike DC schools where corrupt officials pulled stunts like this:

https://www.change.org/p/mayor-bowser-private-schools-should-not-have-exclusive-rights-to-public-fields-makejelleffpublic?recruiter=1000133193&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&utm_term=share_petition&recruited_by_id=80a548f0-c78e-11e9-be24-7db67d90b55a&share_bandit_exp=abi-17484774-en-US&share_bandit_var=v0

Where do Wilson HS tennis team practice, at the nearby awful tennis courts?

Sure. Of course you’re glad to be in Fairfax County. That’s why you’re typing in the DCPS forum . I can safely say I have NEVER visited the VA Schools forum because I’m just not that interested.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow --- tennis court poster really WAS right about hypocrisy. Gross.

Huh?

Deal/Janney parents mocking the idea of dealing with Wilson overcrowding by something other than getting rid of the brown kids while simultaneously mocking suburban posters for not being "urban" (as if NWDC were urban) is hypocritical and gross, more so when it includes a slight racist dog whistle.

Pretty simple really.

Do you think every conversation is about race?

I am glad to stay in the Langley HS bubble of FCPS. At least, in FCPS, each school has its own wonderful athletic facilities unlike DC schools where corrupt officials pulled stunts like this:

https://www.change.org/p/mayor-bowser-private-schools-should-not-have-exclusive-rights-to-public-fields-makejelleffpublic?recruiter=1000133193&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&utm_term=share_petition&recruited_by_id=80a548f0-c78e-11e9-be24-7db67d90b55a&share_bandit_exp=abi-17484774-en-US&share_bandit_var=v0

Where do Wilson HS tennis team practice, at the nearby awful tennis courts?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow --- tennis court poster really WAS right about hypocrisy. Gross.

Huh?

Deal/Janney parents mocking the idea of dealing with Wilson overcrowding by something other than getting rid of the brown kids while simultaneously mocking suburban posters for not being "urban" (as if NWDC were urban) is hypocritical and gross, more so when it includes a slight racist dog whistle.

Pretty simple really.

Do you think every conversation is about race?

Sorry -- that's a side effect of knowing a lot about American history and political economy.

I am a Deal/Janney parent. I don't think they should cut out OOB kids. I think they should plan for the school size they have and provide the resources to teach all the kids they have well, maybe provide a well resrouced path for brining in more OOB at risk kids with academic promise that did not make it into the application schools. If "Honors for All" is working for 9th and 10th graders, give Wilson the resoruces to do that AND keep class sizes reasonable across all grades, including APs. It will serve more students well. Increasing the size and cutting the budget is what is causing chaos, not the number of 9th grade students. There are lots of examples of bigger schools providing a solid education.

So if the brown kids prove them selves and the city gives you a whole bunch of extra money your take some minorities. Ha listen to your self

+1 the limousine liberals are the worst. Pathetic. I hope to God they do away with assigned middle and high schools all together. I wasn’t a fan of it before but will definitely advocate for it next go round.

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Anonymous wrote:Across the park, you have brand new modernized schools that are sitting half empty

Wells is already at capacity. Are people suggesting to transport Shepherd and Lafayette kids to Brookland? If so, might as well bus Janney kids and create more diversity across the city.

Does Wells have trailers for classrooms and common space that’s been converted to classrooms?

Right? Define 'at capacity" PP because it seems like there is no such thing when it comes to Wilson and Deal, so why does Wells get to claim a cap?

Since they are sharing a building with two other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Across the park, you have brand new modernized schools that are sitting half empty

Wells is already at capacity. Are people suggesting to transport Shepherd and Lafayette kids to Brookland? If so, might as well bus Janney kids and create more diversity across the city.

Jeebs, just do a proper boundary review so that nobody must go by car/bus/bike more than 5 minutes to their local school, and everything's fine. Seriously, it's that simple (politics aside).

Again, that’s not possible with middle and high schools.

Sho'nuff is. Ok, maybe 9 minutes in some cases, but mostly sho'nuff 5 minutes for most of us. You can go a LONG way in DC, in 5 minutes on wheels.

Absolutely not true. Try living in Woodridge and going to Brookland Middle or Dunbar in less than 15 minutes. Try living in Palisades abs getting you wilson in less than 20 minutes. Try living in Chevy Chase and getting to suggested Coolidge in 15 minutes. Try living in Colonial Village sad get to Coolidge in 15 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow --- tennis court poster really WAS right about hypocrisy. Gross.

Huh?

Deal/Janney parents mocking the idea of dealing with Wilson overcrowding by something other than getting rid of the brown kids while simultaneously mocking suburban posters for not being "urban" (as if NWDC were urban) is hypocritical and gross, more so when it includes a slight racist dog whistle.

Pretty simple really.

Do you think every conversation is about race?

Sorry -- that's a side effect of knowing a lot about American history and political economy.

I am a Deal/Janney parent. I don't think they should cut out OOB kids. I think they should plan for the school size they have and provide the resources to teach all the kids they have well, maybe provide a well resrouced path for brining in more OOB at risk kids with academic promise that did not make it into the application schools. If "Honors for All" is working for 9th and 10th graders, give Wilson the resoruces to do that AND keep class sizes reasonable across all grades, including APs. It will serve more students well. Increasing the size and cutting the budget is what is causing chaos, not the number of 9th grade students. There are lots of examples of bigger schools providing a solid education.

So if the brown kids prove them selves and the city gives you a whole bunch of extra money your take some minorities. Ha listen to your self

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Anonymous wrote:Across the park, you have brand new modernized schools that are sitting half empty

Wells is already at capacity. Are people suggesting to transport Shepherd and Lafayette kids to Brookland? If so, might as well bus Janney kids and create more diversity across the city.

Does Wells have trailers for classrooms and common space that’s been converted to classrooms?

Right? Define 'at capacity" PP because it seems like there is no such thing when it comes to Wilson and Deal, so why does Wells get to claim a cap?

Since it only has 6th grade...not yet. But 150 students enrolled and started this week. The optimistic projection was for 120. The Coolidge trailer classrooms are still there; perhaps DGS will leave them in place.

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Anonymous wrote:Across the park, you have brand new modernized schools that are sitting half empty

Wells is already at capacity. Are people suggesting to transport Shepherd and Lafayette kids to Brookland? If so, might as well bus Janney kids and create more diversity across the city.

Does Wells have trailers for classrooms and common space that’s been converted to classrooms?

Right? Define 'at capacity" PP because it seems like there is no such thing when it comes to Wilson and Deal, so why does Wells get to claim a cap?

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Anonymous wrote:Across the park, you have brand new modernized schools that are sitting half empty

Wells is already at capacity. Are people suggesting to transport Shepherd and Lafayette kids to Brookland? If so, might as well bus Janney kids and create more diversity across the city.

Jeebs, just do a proper boundary review so that nobody must go by car/bus/bike more than 5 minutes to their local school, and everything's fine. Seriously, it's that simple (politics aside).

Again, that’s not possible with middle and high schools.

Sho'nuff is. Ok, maybe 9 minutes in some cases, but mostly sho'nuff 5 minutes for most of us. You can go a LONG way in DC, in 5 minutes on wheels.

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Anonymous wrote:Across the park, you have brand new modernized schools that are sitting half empty

Wells is already at capacity. Are people suggesting to transport Shepherd and Lafayette kids to Brookland? If so, might as well bus Janney kids and create more diversity across the city.

Does Wells have trailers for classrooms and common space that’s been converted to classrooms?

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Anonymous wrote:Across the park, you have brand new modernized schools that are sitting half empty

Wells is already at capacity. Are people suggesting to transport Shepherd and Lafayette kids to Brookland? If so, might as well bus Janney kids and create more diversity across the city.

Jeebs, just do a proper boundary review so that nobody must go by car/bus/bike more than 5 minutes to their local school, and everything's fine. Seriously, it's that simple (politics aside).

Again, that’s not possible with middle and high schools.