Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four DCPS schools offer Italian: Hardy, CHEC, Jackson-Reed and Duke Ellington.

It would be ridiculous for MacArthur not to offer Italian if Hardy is going to be its primary feeder school.

No. There are important equity concerns here. Students from those WOTP middle schools shouldn’t have their own private language class at MacArthur. Which is what the Italian class would be.

J-R needs to end its Italian classes today! So unfair!

Anonymous wrote:Deal 7th grader here. What if we leave DCPS for 8th but come back (to this address) for 9th. Do we loose the option for this new high school?

This is a great question. I don’t know the answer, but thank you for asking it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four DCPS schools offer Italian: Hardy, CHEC, Jackson-Reed and Duke Ellington.

It would be ridiculous for MacArthur not to offer Italian if Hardy is going to be its primary feeder school.

No. There are important equity concerns here. Students from those WOTP middle schools shouldn’t have their own private language class at MacArthur. Which is what the Italian class would be.

Macarthur should only offer French, since the Hardy students didn't have that choice. That would make those kids suffer appropriately for having gone to such a fancy, coddling school like Hardy (with their 30 kids in every class, locked bathrooms, and regular fights).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four DCPS schools offer Italian: Hardy, CHEC, Jackson-Reed and Duke Ellington.

It would be ridiculous for MacArthur not to offer Italian if Hardy is going to be its primary feeder school.

No. There are important equity concerns here. Students from those WOTP middle schools shouldn’t have their own private language class at MacArthur. Which is what the Italian class would be.

Are you joking?! SMH.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four DCPS schools offer Italian: Hardy, CHEC, Jackson-Reed and Duke Ellington.

It would be ridiculous for MacArthur not to offer Italian if Hardy is going to be its primary feeder school.

No. There are important equity concerns here. Students from those WOTP middle schools shouldn’t have their own private language class at MacArthur. Which is what the Italian class would be.

Uh-huh. We live EOTP and want Italian - since there is no equity in language offerings we need to lottery into Hardy/Deal.

oops. "lose", not loose.

Deal 7th grader here. What if we leave DCPS for 8th but come back (to this address) for 9th. Do we loose the option for this new high school?

Anonymous wrote:Four DCPS schools offer Italian: Hardy, CHEC, Jackson-Reed and Duke Ellington.

It would be ridiculous for MacArthur not to offer Italian if Hardy is going to be its primary feeder school.

No. There are important equity concerns here. Students from those WOTP middle schools shouldn’t have their own private language class at MacArthur. Which is what the Italian class would be.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just to be clear, the Deal preference to MacArthur is only for current Deal 8th graders and 7th graders. Then it goes away.

We are inbounds for deal and I'm confused by the all of it. Can anyone break it down? Where are deal neighborhood kids expected (and have inbounds rights) for middle and HS? And who else does ?

Not sure if you have a current middle schooler (at Deal or elsewhere), but current Deal 7th and 8th graders have transfer preference for MacArthur (as well as current Jackson Reed 9th graders). Deal will continue to feed to Jackson Reed as well as Oyster-Adams will continue to feed to Jackson Reed.

Anonymous wrote:Just to be clear, the Deal preference to MacArthur is only for current Deal 8th graders and 7th graders. Then it goes away.

We are inbounds for deal and I'm confused by the all of it. Can anyone break it down? Where are deal neighborhood kids expected (and have inbounds rights) for middle and HS? And who else does ?

The new Macarthur principal understands that Macarthur needs to offer the courses that follow-on to courses that Hardy students are taking, even if numbers in some classes are initially small.

What's not clear is if DCPS understands this and will provide the necessary budget for it. Probably worth writing somebody....

Four DCPS schools offer Italian: Hardy, CHEC, Jackson-Reed and Duke Ellington.

It would be ridiculous for MacArthur not to offer Italian if Hardy is going to be its primary feeder school.

Anonymous wrote:Deal does not offer Italian.

Exactly, that person is trolling.

Deal does not offer Italian.

Anonymous wrote:Perché?

Perché miei nonni non ci sono più - e i nostri figli hanno la cittadinanza - e anche, il costo delle tasse scolastiche in America è un'enorme truffa.