Anonymous
05/24/2015 16:01
Subject: s/o anyone who knows about McKinley Middle
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It just seems,so bizarre to have an attach an open enrollment middle school to an application only high school. I know dcps is allergic to any kind of magnet school below 9th grade but it really doesn't create any great continunity when the majority of the middle school population will not qualify to stay past 8th grade due poor academic performance. It would be much better if the middle was also a magnet program too.
the only thing crazier would be to attach a neighborhood PK3-8 school to an application high school, not tie the curricula together in any way, and put one principal in charge of the whole shebang! oh wait, that's exactly what happened at [School Without Walls at] Francis-Stevens. DCPS must think parents are really dumb if they expect us to fall for this crap.
I really can't understand the insane troll logic behind why dcps wants to take two very sucess full high schools, schools that owe some of their success to being selectime and can pick from a city wide pool of students and pair them with a neighborhood school without a magnet program. It isn't fair to anyone involved. I noticed the Banneker and Duke did not get stuck with similar middle or education campuses.
Also while I'm not a fan of dcum posters who believe gifted and talented programs are the panacea to solve all of dcps woes I don't get why dcps won't have any magnet schools or programs for middle or lower. It would make sense to turn one school per ward into a giftrd center school (like aap or hgc in fcps/mcps)
Because there are too many problems with those types of programs in terms of equity. Needs can be met in other ways. Pros and cons to all approaches.
Anonymous
05/24/2015 15:57
Subject: s/o anyone who knows about McKinley Middle
Anonymous wrote:It just seems,so bizarre to have an attach an open enrollment middle school to an application only high school. I know dcps is allergic to any kind of magnet school below 9th grade but it really doesn't create any great continunity when the majority of the middle school population will not qualify to stay past 8th grade due poor academic performance. It would be much better if the middle was also a magnet program too.
The stranger thing is that DCPS was looking at McKinley middle being an app-based school, or at least partly app-based, in the early stages of planning, from what I remember of the Ward 5 schools planning meetings. Then for some reason they dropped it!
See here:
6th – 12th Middle School Magnet and College Prep HS - a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Citywide Application School with 380 seats for middle school students.
from this: http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Parents%20and%20Community/Community%20Initiatives/Ward%205%20Great%20Schools%20Initiative
Under About the Initiative.
And then it somehow got changed into a neighborhood, feeder-based school...
Anonymous
05/24/2015 06:06
Subject: s/o anyone who knows about McKinley Middle
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It just seems,so bizarre to have an attach an open enrollment middle school to an application only high school. I know dcps is allergic to any kind of magnet school below 9th grade but it really doesn't create any great continunity when the majority of the middle school population will not qualify to stay past 8th grade due poor academic performance. It would be much better if the middle was also a magnet program too.
the only thing crazier would be to attach a neighborhood PK3-8 school to an application high school, not tie the curricula together in any way, and put one principal in charge of the whole shebang! oh wait, that's exactly what happened at [School Without Walls at] Francis-Stevens. DCPS must think parents are really dumb if they expect us to fall for this crap.
I really can't understand the insane troll logic behind why dcps wants to take two very sucess full high schools, schools that owe some of their success to being selectime and can pick from a city wide pool of students and pair them with a neighborhood school without a magnet program. It isn't fair to anyone involved. I noticed the Banneker and Duke did not get stuck with similar middle or education campuses.
Also while I'm not a fan of dcum posters who believe gifted and talented programs are the panacea to solve all of dcps woes I don't get why dcps won't have any magnet schools or programs for middle or lower. It would make sense to turn one school per ward into a giftrd center school (like aap or hgc in fcps/mcps)