Anonymous
Post 05/29/2014 08:12     Subject: Re:PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Anonymous wrote:Hyattsville ES recently lost Title 1 status but almost has a high enough low SES demographic to qualify. High FARMS rate without the additional resources of Title 1.


Unfortunately this is the way Title 1 funding works. When a county runs out of their resources to the neediest, that's where the cut off falls. MOCO has schools just across the border with Title 1designation, but their cut off is closer to 40% whereas in PGCPS the cutoff is somewhere closer to 75%. Because it's funded at the county level rather than state or federal level and the history of redlining, it's kind of a giveaway to wealthier counties.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2014 22:10     Subject: Re:PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Anonymous wrote:Guess I better just get money together for DC private Unfortunately the best PG County has to offer is not good enough


Really? That's your takeaway from this thread? You were given many good suggestions. Friends Community School is fantastic and its tuition is half the price of Sidwell and other DC privates. St. Jerome is also very good. We know many very happy families at Hyattsville Elementary.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2014 21:39     Subject: Re:PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Guess I better just get money together for DC private Unfortunately the best PG County has to offer is not good enough
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2014 21:02     Subject: Re:PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Anonymous wrote:I would take a chance at YuYing over the opportunity to lottery into a PG County G&T program any day. Let's face the fact that DC offers more opportunities. The gulf between DC and PG is widening as DC experiences gentrification and their lowest SES students with the highest level of behavioral problems are moving into our county. Further, college educated professionals who bought along the Mt. Ranier to Hyattsville corridor of Route 1 were attracted to being on the border of DC and being able to commute into the city. They are not looking to drive deep into PG away from work for a school. The fact that the county has not positioned something like a bilingual IB program in the Arts District area tells me that they aren't serious about keeping the young families that are currently moving in.


There is a new elementary school off of queens chapel, though, which I thought would have something "special" in the curriculum?
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2014 20:28     Subject: Re:PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Hyattsville ES recently lost Title 1 status but almost has a high enough low SES demographic to qualify. High FARMS rate without the additional resources of Title 1.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2014 19:43     Subject: PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
No Hyattsville representation? Any information on that school???
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2014 19:42     Subject: PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Friends coming school in college park is definitely worth exploring. Tremendous diversity; racial and economic.


What's the financial aid situation like at Friends?


Financial aid is an option. I do know that about five years ago, they had a larger percentage of families receiving financial aid than the DC average.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2014 19:05     Subject: Re:PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
I would take a chance at YuYing over the opportunity to lottery into a PG County G&T program any day. Let's face the fact that DC offers more opportunities. The gulf between DC and PG is widening as DC experiences gentrification and their lowest SES students with the highest level of behavioral problems are moving into our county. Further, college educated professionals who bought along the Mt. Ranier to Hyattsville corridor of Route 1 were attracted to being on the border of DC and being able to commute into the city. They are not looking to drive deep into PG away from work for a school. The fact that the county has not positioned something like a bilingual IB program in the Arts District area tells me that they aren't serious about keeping the young families that are currently moving in.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2014 14:33     Subject: Re:PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, it pi$$es me off. It's almost like, "sorry, if you can't afford a house in DC, then your child has to settle for a sub-standard education".


If it makes you feel better, plenty of DC homeowners would probably say the same thing after playing the lottery.


Not much better. At least they have a shot at these schools.


PG has G&T, DC does not.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2014 14:31     Subject: Re:PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, it pi$$es me off. It's almost like, "sorry, if you can't afford a house in DC, then your child has to settle for a sub-standard education".


Have you visited the DCPCS board. Parents are crying the same song. FFX County is arguing about the schools deteriorating, and MOCO is yelling about overcrowded schools and trailers.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2014 11:56     Subject: PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Anonymous wrote:Friends coming school in college park is definitely worth exploring. Tremendous diversity; racial and economic.


What's the financial aid situation like at Friends?
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2014 09:22     Subject: Re:PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, it pi$$es me off. It's almost like, "sorry, if you can't afford a house in DC, then your child has to settle for a sub-standard education".


If it makes you feel better, plenty of DC homeowners would probably say the same thing after playing the lottery.


Not much better. At least they have a shot at these schools.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2014 20:52     Subject: PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Friends coming school in college park is definitely worth exploring. Tremendous diversity; racial and economic.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2014 20:37     Subject: Re:PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, it pi$$es me off. It's almost like, "sorry, if you can't afford a house in DC, then your child has to settle for a sub-standard education".


If it makes you feel better, plenty of DC homeowners would probably say the same thing after playing the lottery.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2014 07:34     Subject: Re:PG County Parents, where are you sending your kids to school?
Yeah, it pi$$es me off. It's almost like, "sorry, if you can't afford a house in DC, then your child has to settle for a sub-standard education".