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Anonymous wrote:I am just depressed that there's a sad shriveled sack of a woman who thinks that 9th grade is "too late" for some children.

So many 9th graders in DC are reading on an elementary school level if at all. They are basically capable of 3rd grade work. They have been living in poverty, transience, no male role models and moms who scream get in the fucking car to them (something I see regularly at "moms" picking up kids as young as five at the playground close to my house)...so after well over a decade of this, by the time 9th grade hits a lot of these kids are 10 years behind academically, raging mad at the world and have zero positive role models in their homes. They need to be sent to a boarding vocational school if DCPS is serials about giving them some kind of path forward. Poverty actually causes brain damage to children under the age of 3.

Poppycock!!! No such thing. This ignorant attempt at biological racism should leave you feeling quite stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid! Can you even imagine yourself saying this outloud? In public? Magnificently stupid, PP.

You pile on a bunch of deficits, then top it off with a generalized statement, the idiocy cherry on your racist sundae! Brava, PP.

Enough DCUM for me today.

I see EMOC HS supposed to take 9th graders. Will take only first-time ninth graders? Because the cohort of second-time ninth graders is large in DC.

DCPS is advertising positions on Craigslist.

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/edu/5428497581.html

Anonymous wrote:I am just depressed that there's a sad shriveled sack of a woman who thinks that 9th grade is "too late" for some children.

I couldn't care less about you, but I'm depressed for your husband and family about the sad, shriveled sack of a woman who lives with them.

Anonymous wrote:The name of the school is not anything to worry your mind over...considering we are on this track to rename every thing that's simple but has history of racism. Marion Barry High School for Males...might have a better need.

Better watch out for the chalk powder at THAT school!

Anonymous wrote:I am just depressed that there's a sad shriveled sack of a woman who thinks that 9th grade is "too late" for some children.

I'm reminded of the season of The Wire where the former cop brings the researcher to a high school in order to prove to him that his efforts to concentrate on children at risk is ill-suited to kids that late in life.

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Anonymous wrote:If they can get some of the troublemaking boys out of other high schools, it will benefit the girls. Banneker and SWW are predominantly female, anyway.

But if that's the goal then the entire premise is bogus because this is supposed to be college prep, meaning the boys with the best grades, most promise, etc. The boys that SHOULD go to EMHS should be the "best and the brightest" which means you're pulling them out of the "regular" high schools and leaving just the trouble makers with the girls. Disastrous.

If they cared that much, this would start in preschool. 9th grade is way too late to "save" some of these guys.

Reading below 4th grade, when you're in HS, is definitely too late.

Having said that, for the children this is designed to serve it is a godsend - yes for both the boys and the girls. When you remove distractions from the classroom and introduce formal, respectful discipline, magic can happen.

For those who are insisting that nothing will work unless it begins in the womb, what should we do for those well outside the womb? Give up on them?

I am all for efforts to improve pre-natal care, infant health, and pre-school education. But I can't see being so defeatist we give up on older kids by saying their situations are unsalvageable. We may not have hit on the right approaches to reach them, but that doesn't mean we should give up on them, does it?

Why would someone sue a school system that wants to help males? There's no way in any form saying that the school system is ignoring females. We have already established same sex classrooms for learning, so it is quite naturally to take it to a level of a high-school. When you're duplicating a successful program that's happening in other cities, I would consider this a nuisance lawsuit. We have universities that serve same sex, so to have a school that empowers males, is only befitting.

As for this pregnancy stats...which is so ridiculous because they are saying pregnant youth is between 12 and 25....laughable. I give you this stat that was presented to our high school. They told us that a survey revealed that we have 200 young ladies pregnant who are school age and would be attending our school. The further data resulted that we had 200 young ladies within the Ward who were between the ages of 12 and 25. The majority were at the age of 17 and above with over 65% at the age 21 and above. Yet, they had the literature out, saying that 200 young ladies will be walking the school hallways pregnant...hysteria at it's all time high.

Anonymous wrote:and there is nothing "sad" or "shriveled" about me. Quite the opposite actually. And after 20 years in DC watching initiative after another, I just have a realistic view. The city can't solve multi generational poverty. And 9th grade is too late. Invention needs to start during pregnancy.

The latest newspaper article did say the gap begins at pregnancy in DC. Not PP.
For literacy and math, of course you can learn at any age. But that would be remediation in 9th grade -serious remediation.

The name of the school is not anything to worry your mind over...considering we are on this track to rename every thing that's simple but has history of racism. Marion Barry High School for Males...might have a better need.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe the plan is for it to fail, proving that there are some things a traditional public school just can't do very effectively.

Then it will be turned into a charter, and while its value to the students won't change, it will be considered a success because its teachers won't be unionized and the owners will be private entrepreneurs.

Get over yourself! Stop making everything about this absurd charter vs public, or hating on teachers paradigm, through which you apparently see the entire world.

Yes, all people with this point of view should "get over themselves" and give free reign to charter supporters and union busters. It's only fair.

You are an idiot! It's a PUBLIC SCHOOL!!! Take off your blinders. How can you possibly make this about public vs charter? You are beyond crazy. Please seek help.

and there is nothing "sad" or "shriveled" about me. Quite the opposite actually. And after 20 years in DC watching initiative after another, I just have a realistic view. The city can't solve multi generational poverty. And 9th grade is too late. Invention needs to start during pregnancy.

Anonymous wrote:I am just depressed that there's a sad shriveled sack of a woman who thinks that 9th grade is "too late" for some children.

So many 9th graders in DC are reading on an elementary school level if at all. They are basically capable of 3rd grade work. They have been living in poverty, transience, no male role models and moms who scream get in the fucking car to them (something I see regularly at "moms" picking up kids as young as five at the playground close to my house)...so after well over a decade of this, by the time 9th grade hits a lot of these kids are 10 years behind academically, raging mad at the world and have zero positive role models in their homes. They need to be sent to a boarding vocational school if DCPS is serials about giving them some kind of path forward. Poverty actually causes brain damage to children under the age of 3.

I am just depressed that there's a sad shriveled sack of a woman who thinks that 9th grade is "too late" for some children.