Anonymous
03/26/2014 20:50
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
Wouldn't test-in be the solution?
Anonymous
03/26/2014 20:47
Subject: Re:When are boundary changes being announced?
Anonymous wrote:
Can we talk specifically about the lottery for all high school spots?
Who thinks this is a good idea? And why?
Full disclosure...I live in ward 3 and have kids at Deal and Wilson. Kids are doing great, we are perfectly happy, made our real estate decisions on purpose. We are not in a position to go private easily and don't want to anyway.
I really want to hear from people why the lottery for all HS spots is a good idea. I work in education and everything I have read or heard about it tells me that that scenario would take a great school and make it mediocre, while doing nothing for the crappy schools.
Please, someone explain the rationale to me.
I don't know if you're being facetious but no one thinks it's a good idea.
Which is why it won't happen. And no one anywhere except here on DCUM has said that it will.
Anonymous
03/26/2014 20:25
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
Equity apparently means everyone in the city will have equal access to mediocrity. Why demand that DCPS up its game when you can be bought off with the possibility of getting into Wilson via the lottery. And if you don't get in, well you still have your shitty IB school just as the high SES crowd packs up and decamps to the burbs, resulting in a devaluation of everyone's property. F'ing brilliant.
Anonymous
03/26/2014 20:19
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
Sorry, I had been under the impression that it was the responsibility of DCPS to provide quality programming at every school. Must be an election year.
Anonymous
03/26/2014 20:14
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
equity, sweetie, equity. So everyone in the city has "equal access to quality programming".
Anonymous
03/26/2014 20:11
Subject: Re:When are boundary changes being announced?
Can we talk specifically about the lottery for all high school spots?
Who thinks this is a good idea? And why?
Full disclosure...I live in ward 3 and have kids at Deal and Wilson. Kids are doing great, we are perfectly happy, made our real estate decisions on purpose. We are not in a position to go private easily and don't want to anyway.
I really want to hear from people why the lottery for all HS spots is a good idea. I work in education and everything I have read or heard about it tells me that that scenario would take a great school and make it mediocre, while doing nothing for the crappy schools.
Please, someone explain the rationale to me.
Anonymous
03/26/2014 19:36
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
*chartered not chattered
Anonymous
03/26/2014 19:35
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
The endgame of a controlled choice set scenario advocated by the "experts" almost certainly will result in the conversion of underutilized DCPS schools for use by schools chattered by either DCPS or DCPCS. http://dme.dc.gov/node/766382. In other words, consolidating underenrolled schools will result in students being shifted to the controlled choice set, all in the name of socioeconomic and racial diversity, with yet a greater focused intensity on testing. This is of course will be facilitated by the newly introduced common lottery and dovetails with Kaya's view that the optimal school has more than 500 students.
Anonymous
03/26/2014 18:37
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
Anonymous wrote:For naysayers, please spend a bit of time on the Deputy Mayor for Education's website and read through the materials handed out from each meeting. As a sample, I will link to one worksheet "Exploring Options for School Assignment"
What started out as a Boundary/Feeder Pattern review Committee has morphed into a whole scale re-thinking of how students are assigned to schools in our city. Sorry, but it feels like a bait and switch.
And don't think for a second the Committee won't manipulate data from all these community feedback opportunities to back whatever the hell they think they can get away with politically.
http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Worksheet-Exploring%20Options%20Student%20Assignment%20and%20School%20Choice.pdf
Here is a better link to the sample
Try this link, and click on the Worksheet Link. It is worth looking at.
http://dme.dc.gov/node/790172
Anonymous
03/26/2014 17:34
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
Anonymous wrote:For naysayers, please spend a bit of time on the Deputy Mayor for Education's website and read through the materials handed out from each meeting. As a sample, I will link to one worksheet "Exploring Options for School Assignment"
What started out as a Boundary/Feeder Pattern review Committee has morphed into a whole scale re-thinking of how students are assigned to schools in our city. Sorry, but it feels like a bait and switch.
And don't think for a second the Committee won't manipulate data from all these community feedback opportunities to back whatever the hell they think they can get away with politically.
http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Worksheet-Exploring%20Options%20Student%20Assignment%20and%20School%20Choice.pdf
I do not get it. So will they introduce a universal public school transportantion system (as if traffic conjestion and pollution was not an urban emergency in 2014) . I live in ward 4 , and I see so many young kids (2-3 grade) walking to their neghborhood school by themselves. So what are they supposed to do? Take the bus & metro by themselves if parents have jobs which do not allow them to accompany them to school?
Anonymous
03/26/2014 17:29
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
Anonymous wrote:For naysayers, please spend a bit of time on the Deputy Mayor for Education's website and read through the materials handed out from each meeting. As a sample, I will link to one worksheet "Exploring Options for School Assignment"
What started out as a Boundary/Feeder Pattern review Committee has morphed into a whole scale re-thinking of how students are assigned to schools in our city. Sorry, but it feels like a bait and switch.
And don't think for a second the Committee won't manipulate data from all these community feedback opportunities to back whatever the hell they think they can get away with politically.
http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Worksheet-Exploring%20Options%20Student%20Assignment%20and%20School%20Choice.pdf
This is too gross. I mean, maybe the Koch brothers do have a point, I should maybe re-think the whole issue.
So a bunch of government officials, assisted by another bunch of self-proclaimed education experts, have been empowered with the task of designing and implementing a top-down experiment of social education resettlement, where a whatever government-designed placement mechanism will place kids in schools regardless of their parents school choice and their parents neighborhood choice/housing investment.
Anonymous
03/26/2014 16:39
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
For naysayers, please spend a bit of time on the Deputy Mayor for Education's website and read through the materials handed out from each meeting. As a sample, I will link to one worksheet "Exploring Options for School Assignment"
What started out as a Boundary/Feeder Pattern review Committee has morphed into a whole scale re-thinking of how students are assigned to schools in our city. Sorry, but it feels like a bait and switch.
And don't think for a second the Committee won't manipulate data from all these community feedback opportunities to back whatever the hell they think they can get away with politically.
http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Worksheet-Exploring%20Options%20Student%20Assignment%20and%20School%20Choice.pdf
What started out as a Boundary/Feeder Pattern review Committee has morphed into a whole scale re-thinking of how students are assigned to schools in our city. Sorry, but it feels like a bait and switch.
And don't think for a second the Committee won't manipulate data from all these community feedback opportunities to back whatever the hell they think they can get away with politically.
http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Worksheet-Exploring%20Options%20Student%20Assignment%20and%20School%20Choice.pdf
Anonymous
03/26/2014 16:20
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
I thought good sense was going to prevail. Unfortunately this is not going to be the case.
The controlled choice (in all its variations) for the City Center and the East quadrant for ES and MS will kill all the past years efforts by the local gentrifying communities to invest in their schools.
There was no real need for this social experiment, no real measured demand from parents, no real measured positive academic improvements from other similar experiments, just migration to more accountable and predictable school districts...
I did not want to believe it, but it really looks like the Old Guard is eager to get hands back on the DCPS business by expelling the new watchful families.
And the so called "experts" called to help (real experts and academics from leading universities just cannot make sense of the fact that the Nation Capital of the United States of America has teamed up with such a bunch of unskilled and amateurish practitioners) have confirmed their identity of mercenaries.
The controlled choice (in all its variations) for the City Center and the East quadrant for ES and MS will kill all the past years efforts by the local gentrifying communities to invest in their schools.
There was no real need for this social experiment, no real measured demand from parents, no real measured positive academic improvements from other similar experiments, just migration to more accountable and predictable school districts...
I did not want to believe it, but it really looks like the Old Guard is eager to get hands back on the DCPS business by expelling the new watchful families.
And the so called "experts" called to help (real experts and academics from leading universities just cannot make sense of the fact that the Nation Capital of the United States of America has teamed up with such a bunch of unskilled and amateurish practitioners) have confirmed their identity of mercenaries.
Anonymous
03/26/2014 13:40
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
It's March 26. Working groups will meet on April 5. See this thread: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/372539.page for times and places where they meet.
Anonymous
03/26/2014 13:22
Subject: When are boundary changes being announced?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:as in, "controlled choice"?
is that a serious proposal?
thanks for any info! I know it is anyone's guess at this point...
Yes. After reading all the documents that the Deputy Mayor has released and attending 2 meetings, I believe that the three working groups will focus on different solutions for their geographic areas: West of Rock Creck, "MidCity", and East of Anacostia River. These decisions have already been made: Different solutions for different geography.
The working groups will simply serve to engage community and try to win some buy-in and disrupt any unified political opposition by effectively pitting neighborhood vs neighborhood.
Mid city will move to controlled choice for all schools, hence the "choice sets". West of Rock Creek will be all neighborhood preference. Presumably Wards 7/8 will still be allowed to leave their neighborhood schools.
If you listen to the technical team, it is generally accepted that all DC high school will move to lottery admission. It's the only way to get #s under control at Wilson without a landmark civil rights lawsuit. They're not even talking about HS in public meetings any more, they really want the ES and MS crowds to get excited and fight over their pieces.
the results were supposed to be released april 5. What happened