Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 17:46     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
Yes. 4th and 2nd now. Only reason we wouldn't is if Walls seemed like a better fit for one/both (and they got in).
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 17:45     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
So, it will just stay overcrowded. Because the current "market correction" leaves the school overcrowded.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 17:02     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
My gut tells me the market will take care of this. Parents will decide to go private, or move, or decide to stay at Latin/Basis if they are not think Wilson is overcrowded. The more overcrowded Wilson gets, the more this market correction will kick in.

Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 15:11     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
IB for Janney -
Nope

We are praying for the Latin Lottery.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 15:10     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
Anonymous wrote:I am always amazed by these posts. Whitman is bigger than Wilson. I just don't see the Bethesda parents wringing their hands over this. You don't know what size the class will be in 2020. You have no idea how the feeder and boundary changes will affect things over the next 4 years.

Calm down. Sit back and reevaluate in a few years.


NP here. When you see a neighborhood elementary school, recently renovated (twice!) having classes of 33 kids, the local MS school, also recently renovated, almost doubling in size in a few years, you get worried even if your kids are in elementary school, like mine.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 15:08     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
They have to end feeder rights, it makes no sense.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 14:25     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
Anonymous wrote:PP is probably referring to the awkwardness of having a school overenrolled by 200 or so students when only 57% of the student body lives in the school boundary.


Exactly. While at the same time other recently renovated high schools elsewhere in the city are only half full. So frustrating.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 14:22     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
PP is probably referring to the awkwardness of having a school overenrolled by 200 or so students when only 57% of the student body lives in the school boundary.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 14:04     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Really wish DCPS would take their hands off Wilson and allow it to become a neighborhood school. It would quickly become one of the top high schools in the country. Of course, DCPS would actually have to come up real solutions to educating kids in the rest of the city. A solution which has escaped the for decades, no matter how many hundreds of millions they spend.


What do you mean? Wilson is a neighborhood school that is filled with kids that attended neighborhood middle schools. The only big change to this in recent years is that DCPS has shrunk the "Wilson neighborhood," carving out the southern and western school boundaries so they feed into different high schools.


I am guessing the PP means end feeder rights.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 13:54     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
Anonymous wrote:Really wish DCPS would take their hands off Wilson and allow it to become a neighborhood school. It would quickly become one of the top high schools in the country. Of course, DCPS would actually have to come up real solutions to educating kids in the rest of the city. A solution which has escaped the for decades, no matter how many hundreds of millions they spend.


What do you mean? Wilson is a neighborhood school that is filled with kids that attended neighborhood middle schools. The only big change to this in recent years is that DCPS has shrunk the "Wilson neighborhood," carving out the southern and western school boundaries so they feed into different high schools.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 13:48     Subject: Re:JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
Yes, freshman there this year and my 5th grader will also attend. So far, so good.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 13:45     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
Anonymous wrote:I am always amazed by these posts. Whitman is bigger than Wilson. I just don't see the Bethesda parents wringing their hands over this. You don't know what size the class will be in 2020. You have no idea how the feeder and boundary changes will affect things over the next 4 years.

Calm down. Sit back and reevaluate in a few years.


Does the Whitman building hold 200 fewer student than are enrolled?
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 13:23     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
apples/oranges.

Whitman class size around 450-525 (around 1900 total student - has been that way since the 80s). 95%+ go to college

Wilson current overall size 1788 (expected to grow significant). 75% graduate high school.


http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04427.pdf

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Woodrow+Wilson+High+School
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 13:18     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
Really wish DCPS would take their hands off Wilson and allow it to become a neighborhood school. It would quickly become one of the top high schools in the country. Of course, DCPS would actually have to come up real solutions to educating kids in the rest of the city. A solution which has escaped the for decades, no matter how many hundreds of millions they spend.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2015 12:39     Subject: JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
I am always amazed by these posts. Whitman is bigger than Wilson. I just don't see the Bethesda parents wringing their hands over this. You don't know what size the class will be in 2020. You have no idea how the feeder and boundary changes will affect things over the next 4 years.

Calm down. Sit back and reevaluate in a few years.