Anonymous wrote:Most depressing SH thread either, nearly 300 posts and little to give us hope that the school would work out for our excellent in-boundary 3rd grade student (both math and ELA) in a Hill DCPS. Getting involved at the school doesn't sound worth it.

+1 welcome to the club

Most depressing SH thread either, nearly 300 posts and little to give us hope that the school would work out for our excellent in-boundary 3rd grade student (both math and ELA) in a Hill DCPS. Getting involved at the school doesn't sound worth it.

You nailed it, PP. Couldn't agree more. But it certainly doesn't help when "neighborhood" schools like Watkins are neighborhood schools in name only. DCPS doesn't get this problem either. For starters, they appoint too many Hill elementary principals who aren't willing, able or much interested in keeping neighborhood parents happy. System leaders and the principals themselves would rather make "closing the achievement" gap mainly to serve kids from other neighborhoods their priority. That's changing, but much too slowly.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

For the last time if all you so-called liberal, attended your inbound schools test scores would go up rigor would go up. Instead yall are afraid of the poor black people. Bunch of elite racist, limousine liberals on here as usual. Your problems are your own damn faults

If its going to be half high SES (mostly white?) within five years, that would seem to indicate that most of the so called liberals are not afraid of poor black people, right?

Its the classic chicken and egg problem of having a cohort

If all the people living in Capital Hill now stayed and kept their kids in the system Eastern would easily look like Wilson. That's what's so ironic to me

Instead you have people going two Basis, Latin, Two Rivers other charter to escape Stuart Hobson. Just stay inbound and there wouldn't be an issue.

Not exactly. The folks going to Basis, Latin, 2 Rivers and DCI are not just 'escaping' Stuart Hobson. Some are 'escaping' Jefferson. Others are 'escaping' Eliot-Hine.

But yes, they could all go to Eastern. They don't want really Eastern though, they want SWW (or Banneker, or perhaps McKinley). So hopping to a charter for 3 years is not that big a deal. Until SWW becomes inaccessible to them, little incentive to come back.

I’ll state the obvious. Middle School in DCPS is the weak link. Admittedly, Central
Office doesn’t know what they are doing. The schools people are choosing for
middle school instead of DCPS middle schools are CHARTER SCHOOLS. They have autonomy over their budgets, hiring, curriculum and school culture. They don’t deal with mandates/priorities of central office. They are better at middle school. So. If DCPS was better at middle school, perhaps more families would choose DCPS. It’s not the same as elementary school. More
Neighborhood families staying does not “fix” DCPS at the middle and high school
Level. It’s what we call a dialectic. But DCPS doesn’t want to play. So they scream “racist/elitist/scared” instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

For the last time if all you so-called liberal, attended your inbound schools test scores would go up rigor would go up. Instead yall are afraid of the poor black people. Bunch of elite racist, limousine liberals on here as usual. Your problems are your own damn faults

If its going to be half high SES (mostly white?) within five years, that would seem to indicate that most of the so called liberals are not afraid of poor black people, right?

Its the classic chicken and egg problem of having a cohort

If all the people living in Capital Hill now stayed and kept their kids in the system Eastern would easily look like Wilson. That's what's so ironic to me

Instead you have people going two Basis, Latin, Two Rivers other charter to escape Stuart Hobson. Just stay inbound and there wouldn't be an issue.

This is on the principal. If the principal wasn’t sending out the message that high SES kids will be de-prioritized at Watkins, people would be more willing to give it a shot.

Are you still at the school? Because that's not the message she's been sending out this year.

Agreed. She heard the concerns. My advanced child is not neglected.

You must be in the lower grades because that is certainly not true in 4th and 5th — it all depends on your teacher and has nothing to do with the administration and totally agree that the Principal doesn’t want high SES families there - only wants their money

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

For the last time if all you so-called liberal, attended your inbound schools test scores would go up rigor would go up. Instead yall are afraid of the poor black people. Bunch of elite racist, limousine liberals on here as usual. Your problems are your own damn faults

If its going to be half high SES (mostly white?) within five years, that would seem to indicate that most of the so called liberals are not afraid of poor black people, right?

Its the classic chicken and egg problem of having a cohort

If all the people living in Capital Hill now stayed and kept their kids in the system Eastern would easily look like Wilson. That's what's so ironic to me

Instead you have people going two Basis, Latin, Two Rivers other charter to escape Stuart Hobson. Just stay inbound and there wouldn't be an issue.

This is on the principal. If the principal wasn’t sending out the message that high SES kids will be de-prioritized at Watkins, people would be more willing to give it a shot.

Are you still at the school? Because that's not the message she's been sending out this year.

Agreed. She heard the concerns. My advanced child is not neglected.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

For the last time if all you so-called liberal, attended your inbound schools test scores would go up rigor would go up. Instead yall are afraid of the poor black people. Bunch of elite racist, limousine liberals on here as usual. Your problems are your own damn faults

If its going to be half high SES (mostly white?) within five years, that would seem to indicate that most of the so called liberals are not afraid of poor black people, right?

Its the classic chicken and egg problem of having a cohort

If all the people living in Capital Hill now stayed and kept their kids in the system Eastern would easily look like Wilson. That's what's so ironic to me

Instead you have people going two Basis, Latin, Two Rivers other charter to escape Stuart Hobson. Just stay inbound and there wouldn't be an issue.

Not exactly. The folks going to Basis, Latin, 2 Rivers and DCI are not just 'escaping' Stuart Hobson. Some are 'escaping' Jefferson. Others are 'escaping' Eliot-Hine.

But yes, they could all go to Eastern. They don't want really Eastern though, they want SWW (or Banneker, or perhaps McKinley). So hopping to a charter for 3 years is not that big a deal. Until SWW becomes inaccessible to them, little incentive to come back.

And don’t forget that’s some of us were just escaping another year at Watkins. If we could have gone straight to SH, we would have given it a shot.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

For the last time if all you so-called liberal, attended your inbound schools test scores would go up rigor would go up. Instead yall are afraid of the poor black people. Bunch of elite racist, limousine liberals on here as usual. Your problems are your own damn faults

If its going to be half high SES (mostly white?) within five years, that would seem to indicate that most of the so called liberals are not afraid of poor black people, right?

Its the classic chicken and egg problem of having a cohort

If all the people living in Capital Hill now stayed and kept their kids in the system Eastern would easily look like Wilson. That's what's so ironic to me

Instead you have people going two Basis, Latin, Two Rivers other charter to escape Stuart Hobson. Just stay inbound and there wouldn't be an issue.

This is on the principal. If the principal wasn’t sending out the message that high SES kids will be de-prioritized at Watkins, people would be more willing to give it a shot.

Are you still at the school? Because that's not the message she's been sending out this year.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

For the last time if all you so-called liberal, attended your inbound schools test scores would go up rigor would go up. Instead yall are afraid of the poor black people. Bunch of elite racist, limousine liberals on here as usual. Your problems are your own damn faults

If its going to be half high SES (mostly white?) within five years, that would seem to indicate that most of the so called liberals are not afraid of poor black people, right?

Its the classic chicken and egg problem of having a cohort

If all the people living in Capital Hill now stayed and kept their kids in the system Eastern would easily look like Wilson. That's what's so ironic to me

Instead you have people going two Basis, Latin, Two Rivers other charter to escape Stuart Hobson. Just stay inbound and there wouldn't be an issue.

This is on the principal. If the principal wasn’t sending out the message that high SES kids will be de-prioritized at Watkins, people would be more willing to give it a shot.

Its been about 25 years since elementary school for me but are schools really scrapping the 3 reading/math group model. In third grade I think people were reading at least four different books based on reading level. Doesn't seem that hard to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

For the last time if all you so-called liberal, attended your inbound schools test scores would go up rigor would go up. Instead yall are afraid of the poor black people. Bunch of elite racist, limousine liberals on here as usual. Your problems are your own damn faults

If its going to be half high SES (mostly white?) within five years, that would seem to indicate that most of the so called liberals are not afraid of poor black people, right?

Its the classic chicken and egg problem of having a cohort

If all the people living in Capital Hill now stayed and kept their kids in the system Eastern would easily look like Wilson. That's what's so ironic to me

Instead you have people going two Basis, Latin, Two Rivers other charter to escape Stuart Hobson. Just stay inbound and there wouldn't be an issue.

This is on the principal. If the principal wasn’t sending out the message that high SES kids will be de-prioritized at Watkins, people would be more willing to give it a shot.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

For the last time if all you so-called liberal, attended your inbound schools test scores would go up rigor would go up. Instead yall are afraid of the poor black people. Bunch of elite racist, limousine liberals on here as usual. Your problems are your own damn faults

If its going to be half high SES (mostly white?) within five years, that would seem to indicate that most of the so called liberals are not afraid of poor black people, right?

Its the classic chicken and egg problem of having a cohort

If all the people living in Capital Hill now stayed and kept their kids in the system Eastern would easily look like Wilson. That's what's so ironic to me

Instead you have people going two Basis, Latin, Two Rivers other charter to escape Stuart Hobson. Just stay inbound and there wouldn't be an issue.

Not exactly. The folks going to Basis, Latin, 2 Rivers and DCI are not just 'escaping' Stuart Hobson. Some are 'escaping' Jefferson. Others are 'escaping' Eliot-Hine.

But yes, they could all go to Eastern. They don't want really Eastern though, they want SWW (or Banneker, or perhaps McKinley). So hopping to a charter for 3 years is not that big a deal. Until SWW becomes inaccessible to them, little incentive to come back.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

For the last time if all you so-called liberal, attended your inbound schools test scores would go up rigor would go up. Instead yall are afraid of the poor black people. Bunch of elite racist, limousine liberals on here as usual. Your problems are your own damn faults

If its going to be half high SES (mostly white?) within five years, that would seem to indicate that most of the so called liberals are not afraid of poor black people, right?

Its the classic chicken and egg problem of having a cohort

If all the people living in Capital Hill now stayed and kept their kids in the system Eastern would easily look like Wilson. That's what's so ironic to me

Instead you have people going two Basis, Latin, Two Rivers other charter to escape Stuart Hobson. Just stay inbound and there wouldn't be an issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

For the last time if all you so-called liberal, attended your inbound schools test scores would go up rigor would go up. Instead yall are afraid of the poor black people. Bunch of elite racist, limousine liberals on here as usual. Your problems are your own damn faults

If its going to be half high SES (mostly white?) within five years, that would seem to indicate that most of the so called liberals are not afraid of poor black people, right?

Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

That's a phenomenal rate of reproduction! Or are you already almost a grandparent?

Anonymous wrote:Yes, a few. At the rate Watkins is going, the school should be half IB and high SES within....five years.

Fantastic! Our children's children may attend Watkins as a true IB school.

For the last time if all you so-called liberal, attended your inbound schools test scores would go up rigor would go up. Instead yall are afraid of the poor black people. Bunch of elite racist, limousine liberals on here as usual. Your problems are your own damn faults