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Anonymous wrote:I doubt many people will leave if they implement DC-wide HS. I am surprised all these parents who tell me how great Janney, Lafayette, Murch, etc. have such little faith in DCPS as a whole.

You are surprised that parents choose, i.e. put trust , i.e. invest their time and resources in a specific school or pipeline of schools? Are you a parent? For you as a parent would it be the same if they told you that your kid has 33% each of getting into school A, B or C?

Am I am odd parent when I think that it makes a huge difference (and could make me turn to private or Montgomery County) whether my son will attend Wilson, 14 minutes walk 4 minutes by car, or Cardozo , which has no direct transportation, 30 minutes by car, 1 hour by bus and different average academic outcomes ? Am I perverse? Incompetent ? Racist?

Am I an odd parent when I say that I happy to donate to my ES , on a totally volontary basis, my time + $4,000/year cash because all my 3 kids will benefit from these annual contributions?

Am I an odd parent when I say that I am not ready to delegate to a bureaucratic algoritm the assignment to a "reasonably" close school to home, with programs and outcomes which are reasonably close to what I know would work best for my kid?

We send our kids private.

NP here. this is a public school forum. not everyone has the desire and/or cash money $$$ to go to private school. but thanks for this earth shattering contribution to the discussion.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt many people will leave if they implement DC-wide HS. I am surprised all these parents who tell me how great Janney, Lafayette, Murch, etc. have such little faith in DCPS as a whole.

You are surprised that parents choose, i.e. put trust , i.e. invest their time and resources in a specific school or pipeline of schools? Are you a parent? For you as a parent would it be the same if they told you that your kid has 33% each of getting into school A, B or C?

Am I am odd parent when I think that it makes a huge difference (and could make me turn to private or Montgomery County) whether my son will attend Wilson, 14 minutes walk 4 minutes by car, or Cardozo , which has no direct transportation, 30 minutes by car, 1 hour by bus and different average academic outcomes ? Am I perverse? Incompetent ? Racist?

Am I an odd parent when I say that I happy to donate to my ES , on a totally volontary basis, my time + $4,000/year cash because all my 3 kids will benefit from these annual contributions?

Am I an odd parent when I say that I am not ready to delegate to a bureaucratic algoritm the assignment to a "reasonably" close school to home, with programs and outcomes which are reasonably close to what I know would work best for my kid?

We send our kids private.

Anonymous wrote:I doubt many people will leave if they implement DC-wide HS. I am surprised all these parents who tell me how great Janney, Lafayette, Murch, etc. have such little faith in DCPS as a whole.

You are surprised that parents choose, i.e. put trust , i.e. invest their time and resources in a specific school or pipeline of schools? Are you a parent? For you as a parent would it be the same if they told you that your kid has 33% each of getting into school A, B or C?

Am I am odd parent when I think that it makes a huge difference (and could make me turn to private or Montgomery County) whether my son will attend Wilson, 14 minutes walk 4 minutes by car, or Cardozo , which has no direct transportation, 30 minutes by car, 1 hour by bus and different average academic outcomes ? Am I perverse? Incompetent ? Racist?

Am I an odd parent when I say that I happy to donate to my ES , on a totally volontary basis, my time + $4,000/year cash because all my 3 kids will benefit from these annual contributions?

Am I an odd parent when I say that I am not ready to delegate to a bureaucratic algoritm the assignment to a "reasonably" close school to home, with programs and outcomes which are reasonably close to what I know would work best for my kid?

I doubt many people will leave if they implement DC-wide HS. I am surprised all these parents who tell me how great Janney, Lafayette, Murch, etc. have such little faith in DCPS as a whole.

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Anonymous wrote:"I think people put too much weight in the 21st Century people. At the end of the day this will be done through politics and lawsuits."

+1. Most of ya'll are smoking out of your @ss.

Who are the 21st century people?

Self-proclaimed education innovators, in reality lobbyists for the private schools.

Do you REALLY think there is a Sidwell/NCS lobby going on here?

What were the 750+ IB kids attending Wilson doing , say, 8 years ago? Being home-schooled?

700 student x 5 year high school x $ 35,000 = 122 million USD

This is the stock of money that the NW DC private school system has lost in the process of Wilson's take off. And the amount grows by 20% every year as a new cohort is added.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I think people put too much weight in the 21st Century people. At the end of the day this will be done through politics and lawsuits."

+1. Most of ya'll are smoking out of your @ss.

Who are the 21st century people?

Self-proclaimed education innovators, in reality lobbyists for the private schools.

Do you REALLY think there is a Sidwell/NCS lobby going on here?

Lobbying takes many forms, it does not have to be Remy Danton.

I believe Sidwell/NCS are far for being under threat. But less prestigious school have indeed experienced drop in applications. Drop in applications means less cherry-picking. Ad the outcome differential between say, Hardy MS and any of the privates on Foxhall such as Episcopal/Field is just in the quality at entrance, you see that they do have a problem.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I think people put too much weight in the 21st Century people. At the end of the day this will be done through politics and lawsuits."

+1. Most of ya'll are smoking out of your @ss.

Who are the 21st century people?

Self-proclaimed education innovators, in reality lobbyists for the private schools.

Do you REALLY think there is a Sidwell/NCS lobby going on here?

What were the 750+ IB kids attending Wilson doing , say, 8 years ago? Being home-schooled?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I think people put too much weight in the 21st Century people. At the end of the day this will be done through politics and lawsuits."

+1. Most of ya'll are smoking out of your @ss.

Who are the 21st century people?

Self-proclaimed education innovators, in reality lobbyists for the private schools.

Do you REALLY think there is a Sidwell/NCS lobby going on here?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I think people put too much weight in the 21st Century people. At the end of the day this will be done through politics and lawsuits."

+1. Most of ya'll are smoking out of your @ss.

Who are the 21st century people?

Self-proclaimed education innovators, in reality lobbyists for the private schools.

Anonymous wrote:"I think people put too much weight in the 21st Century people. At the end of the day this will be done through politics and lawsuits."

+1. Most of ya'll are smoking out of your @ss.

Who are the 21st century people?

"I think people put too much weight in the 21st Century people. At the end of the day this will be done through politics and lawsuits."

+1. Most of ya'll are smoking out of your @ss.

Ehi, look what I just found out!
Michael Petrilli, one of the main promoters of the introduction of the "Controlled Choice" Experiments in DC (see http://educationnext.org/how-d-c-schools-can-ward-off-the-%E2%80%98big-flip%E2%80%99/ ) resides in... Bethesda!

He is obviously after a price appreciation for his Bethesda properties, where families will try to move there from D after semi-controlled lotteries will be introduced in DC, introducing a random element in school allocation, depriving families of choice and investment in their neghborhood boundary school.

Bethesda, ridicolous, credibility 0.

Anonymous wrote:Go read #controlledchoice thread on Twitter right now to see what DC and national Ed though leaders think about experimenting with Washington DC. There is apparently a conference about it somewhere in town today.

I have not seen any ED though leaders. Lots of self-proclaims leaders, free-lance consultants, NGOs (with undisclosed source of financial support). No academics from leading universities.

Semi-random lotteries for all HS?

I mean, parents, are you ready to delegate to someone -- who believes that diversity” per se has an important educational benefit regardless of other circumstances (teacher quality, infrastructures, school management quality, i.e. skilled and committed Principals) – to design an algorithm which will implement a social-engineering scheme that will decide kids allocation to ALL High Schools?

I mean are serious? Are you on the payroll of Montgomery County/Fairfax Real Estate Agent Association? Or, as one of the previous post said, are you being lobbied by the NW Private School?

Go read #controlledchoice thread on Twitter right now to see what DC and national Ed though leaders think about experimenting with Washington DC. There is apparently a conference about it somewhere in town today.