What is "DAC"?

I belong to a school in the burbs where it’s pretty close to $100/pp, as long as the auction offers a great date night and items to bid on, why complain? It’s all for the support of our kids, our school and offering enriching opportunities. OP, stop airing out your school drama here, there’s a time and place for that. Try going the PTA auction social chair and learn why the expenses occur.

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Anonymous wrote:The Janney Country Day School is becoming elitist and exclusionary.

Ummm...speaking from experience, "already is" would be more appropriate than "is becoming."

The Janney community has worked hard to get the school to the number one spot among Dac elementaries. No one wants to dilute that.

Hardly #1. Top 5.

Where is the emoji for banging head against a wall when you need it? The statements you are responding to are not made by Janney parents. I try to ignore but then someone keeps bumping this back up. I am a Janney parent of 9 years. It is a good, sometimes great, school and the great is usually due to an exceptional teacher in my experiences . It is imperfect and the community is just doing the best it can for the kids. reasonable people can disagree about the means, but this personalized bashing of the character of the community gets really tired.

How is saying they are a top 5 school bashing the character of the community? Stop being so sensitive.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not longer at Janney but for what's its worth, I raised my paddle every year for the "fund a need." But those projects never happened. Seriously, they never happened -- the shades for the white top patio area out back? The media room that was Nora's pet project? Was there a green house bandied about at some point? At a school like Janney we're raising money for ridiculous things that often never happened. I understand the few extra teachers the PTA pays for, but these auctions have lost site of what really matters. These kids need basic skills... Some (many?) of them are leaving Janney with poor writing, spelling and math skills and we're worried about video production? Parents should get together and have a great time and donate money to a west of the school park and then ask the teachers how they can support them in fighting a system that relies so heavily on test prep that we are failing kids in basic skills.

This is the best post of the thread and I agree with it completely (former and current Janney parent here). What ever happened to the greenhouse and media room funds? I donated to both and they never happened.
Almost every kid I know who left Janney (including my own) has poor writing skills and some have poor math skills as well. It's a very common refrain among parents who were told for years at Janney that their kids were doing great. I think this is probably fairly common in public school in general (or even in school in general in 2019) but it was a shock to us when we realized how little our kids knew upon graduation. We've worked hard to catch them up and one is now going to an elite private for high school (the other one is younger) but it's not due to what they learned at Janney. A lot of Janney is smoke and mirrors sucked right up by parents who want to believe that their kids were getting the best possible education. As I mentioned above, I also currently have a kid there but we're supplementing from the early years this time around.

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Anonymous wrote:The Janney Country Day School is becoming elitist and exclusionary.

Ummm...speaking from experience, "already is" would be more appropriate than "is becoming."

The Janney community has worked hard to get the school to the number one spot among Dac elementaries. No one wants to dilute that.

Hardly #1. Top 5.

Where is the emoji for banging head against a wall when you need it? The statements you are responding to are not made by Janney parents. I try to ignore but then someone keeps bumping this back up. I am a Janney parent of 9 years. It is a good, sometimes great, school and the great is usually due to an exceptional teacher in my experiences . It is imperfect and the community is just doing the best it can for the kids. reasonable people can disagree about the means, but this personalized bashing of the character of the community gets really tired.

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Anonymous wrote:The Janney Country Day School is becoming elitist and exclusionary.

Ummm...speaking from experience, "already is" would be more appropriate than "is becoming."

The Janney community has worked hard to get the school to the number one spot among Dac elementaries. No one wants to dilute that.

Hardly #1. Top 5.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting mix, you got the rachet og parents vs the sophisticated. I'll take my low farm public or private over this inclusion whining.

Diversity and inclusion are overrated. I’ll take top academics any day.

They arent mutually exclusive. Care to share your yearbook?

They are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but academics are more important. DC sometimes seems to put the emphasis backwards.

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Anonymous wrote:The Janney Country Day School is becoming elitist and exclusionary.

Ummm...speaking from experience, "already is" would be more appropriate than "is becoming."

The Janney community has worked hard to get the school to the number one spot among Dac elementaries. No one wants to dilute that.

DCPS elementaries.

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Anonymous wrote:The Janney Country Day School is becoming elitist and exclusionary.

Ummm...speaking from experience, "already is" would be more appropriate than "is becoming."

The Janney community has worked hard to get the school to the number one spot among Dac elementaries. No one wants to dilute that.

Anonymous wrote:You'd have to pay me $100 to hang out with Janney parents for a night.

Janney moms can be fun, especially after a few glasses of Chardonnay.

You'd have to pay me $100 to hang out with Janney parents for a night.

Anonymous wrote:The Janney Country Day School is becoming elitist and exclusionary.

Ummm...speaking from experience, "already is" would be more appropriate than "is becoming."

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I'm on our elementary's PTA Board and disapprove of school auctions. I understand it brings in money for the school, so I keep my mouth shut, but I do not condone the message that a public school can encourage inequalities, that if you have money, you get more school-related stuff. At our school, shadowing the Principal is auctioned off, or a lunch with the assistant Principal, etc. Tying a relationship with a special teacher or administrator with money is just wrong.

So I don't go. Don't want to see that happening live.

This!

I'm not longer at Janney but for what's its worth, I raised my paddle every year for the "fund a need." But those projects never happened. Seriously, they never happened -- the shades for the white top patio area out back? The media room that was Nora's pet project? Was there a green house bandied about at some point? At a school like Janney we're raising money for ridiculous things that often never happened. I understand the few extra teachers the PTA pays for, but these auctions have lost site of what really matters. These kids need basic skills... Some (many?) of them are leaving Janney with poor writing, spelling and math skills and we're worried about video production? Parents should get together and have a great time and donate money to a west of the school park and then ask the teachers how they can support them in fighting a system that relies so heavily on test prep that we are failing kids in basic skills.

Anonymous wrote:How about actually requiring spices when you choose a caterer? The food is always bland. We don’t need crudités. Something substantial is expected for that price. How about spicy saucage soup? Or Mexican?

If I were running things, people would be happy to pay $100 a pop. I’d treat people right— just like a restaurant- and make the experience special. Food would be flavorful, fresh and served at the proper temperature. Cold food would be chilled until dinner. Hot food would be in heating trays.

Great- hope to see you at the planning meeting for the 2020 Janney auction. I’m confident they would love to have you leading the food sub committee.