Anonymous wrote:I went to a HS the size of Wilson in the 1980s.

They used a computer system for scheduling.

All 4 years my schedule was accurate and on time.

DCPS is pathetic. I'm sure someone is making a tidy profit from being paid to operate the system handling the schedules.

Your 30+ year old similar experience is very relevant. See if that person is available to come help.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Walls has 4 counselors for 600 students. Right now Wilson has 4 counselors for 1700 students. Where is the equity?

Isn't that a principal decision?

Interesting that Walls has 4 counselors for 600 students. Right now Wilson has 4 counselors for 1700 students. Where is the equity?

My 11th grader's schedule was fine by yesterday. No big deal.

To respond to a previous post Walls has 4 counselors for about 600 students.

I went to a HS the size of Wilson in the 1980s.

They used a computer system for scheduling.

All 4 years my schedule was accurate and on time.

DCPS is pathetic. I'm sure someone is making a tidy profit from being paid to operate the system handling the schedules.

Anonymous wrote:Isn't there a computer program for scheduling that can help? My freshman is in a class freshman aren't allowed to take. Couldn't a computer not place him in that class?

They do use a computer program for scheduling.

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Anonymous wrote:I do feel bad sometimes about our JKLM PTA that raises around $300k a year. But if DCPS hadn't been so horribly dysfunctional for all these years it never would have happened. It is what parents needed to do back in the day to make the schools run. Literally. Things seems a bit different now and DCPS isn't as dysfunctional (although it is clearly far from perfect). So maybe some change is in order, but the NW DC parents will freak out about that.

I see funds already dropping off already because DCPS is functioning better now.

That's a good thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately with the Chancellor's hyper focus on equity, we can expect more cuts to Wilson funding.
They keep thinking that if they pour more and more money into low performing schools, it will make a difference without any regard to how much money is already being wasted in the system. Wilson is still known as an upper NW elite school even though it probably has 600+ FARMS students (more than the entire population of some other schools).

Chancellor Wilson said on the Kojo show the other day that the DCPS has already done a much better job than other school districts with respect to equitably allotting funds. I think his answer was connected to a question about sombody's suggestion that the Ward 3 PTOs should be forced to give some of their charitable contributions to schools that don't have high-contributing PTOs. Based on the Chancellor's answer, I think he believes the current budget policies are already doing enough to address the "equity" argument. But, in the end, I guess that means he believes DCPS doesn't need to cut Wilson's funds any more than it already has.

Hard to believe by some that love to bash Ward 3, but several of these PTOs already give money to poorer schools. Without being made to do so!

The trend in districts with wide economic disparity is to create a city-wide foundation and have all PTA dollars beyond a certain amount (usually$25K) go there. The money is allocated via grants to schools who need it to fund a particular need.

Many people will donate less because most of the money won't go to their school. Many people, rightly or wrongly, will feel they pay taxes to support the school system as a whole and voluntary PTA contributions should be able to be directed to the school of their choice - parents of course could choose to donate to a general fund if they preferred.

We already do. We do both. And then some.

Anonymous wrote:I do feel bad sometimes about our JKLM PTA that raises around $300k a year. But if DCPS hadn't been so horribly dysfunctional for all these years it never would have happened. It is what parents needed to do back in the day to make the schools run. Literally. Things seems a bit different now and DCPS isn't as dysfunctional (although it is clearly far from perfect). So maybe some change is in order, but the NW DC parents will freak out about that.

I see funds already dropping off already because DCPS is functioning better now.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately with the Chancellor's hyper focus on equity, we can expect more cuts to Wilson funding.
They keep thinking that if they pour more and more money into low performing schools, it will make a difference without any regard to how much money is already being wasted in the system. Wilson is still known as an upper NW elite school even though it probably has 600+ FARMS students (more than the entire population of some other schools).

Chancellor Wilson said on the Kojo show the other day that the DCPS has already done a much better job than other school districts with respect to equitably allotting funds. I think his answer was connected to a question about sombody's suggestion that the Ward 3 PTOs should be forced to give some of their charitable contributions to schools that don't have high-contributing PTOs. Based on the Chancellor's answer, I think he believes the current budget policies are already doing enough to address the "equity" argument. But, in the end, I guess that means he believes DCPS doesn't need to cut Wilson's funds any more than it already has.

Hard to believe by some that love to bash Ward 3, but several of these PTOs already give money to poorer schools. Without being made to do so!

The trend in districts with wide economic disparity is to create a city-wide foundation and have all PTA dollars beyond a certain amount (usually$25K) go there. The money is allocated via grants to schools who need it to fund a particular need.

Many people will donate less because most of the money won't go to their school. Many people, rightly or wrongly, will feel they pay taxes to support the school system as a whole and voluntary PTA contributions should be able to be directed to the school of their choice - parents of course could choose to donate to a general fund if they preferred.

I do feel bad sometimes about our JKLM PTA that raises around $300k a year. But if DCPS hadn't been so horribly dysfunctional for all these years it never would have happened. It is what parents needed to do back in the day to make the schools run. Literally. Things seems a bit different now and DCPS isn't as dysfunctional (although it is clearly far from perfect). So maybe some change is in order, but the NW DC parents will freak out about that.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately with the Chancellor's hyper focus on equity, we can expect more cuts to Wilson funding.
They keep thinking that if they pour more and more money into low performing schools, it will make a difference without any regard to how much money is already being wasted in the system. Wilson is still known as an upper NW elite school even though it probably has 600+ FARMS students (more than the entire population of some other schools).

Chancellor Wilson said on the Kojo show the other day that the DCPS has already done a much better job than other school districts with respect to equitably allotting funds. I think his answer was connected to a question about sombody's suggestion that the Ward 3 PTOs should be forced to give some of their charitable contributions to schools that don't have high-contributing PTOs. Based on the Chancellor's answer, I think he believes the current budget policies are already doing enough to address the "equity" argument. But, in the end, I guess that means he believes DCPS doesn't need to cut Wilson's funds any more than it already has.

Hard to believe by some that love to bash Ward 3, but several of these PTOs already give money to poorer schools. Without being made to do so!

The trend in districts with wide economic disparity is to create a city-wide foundation and have all PTA dollars beyond a certain amount (usually$25K) go there. The money is allocated via grants to schools who need it to fund a particular need.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately with the Chancellor's hyper focus on equity, we can expect more cuts to Wilson funding.
They keep thinking that if they pour more and more money into low performing schools, it will make a difference without any regard to how much money is already being wasted in the system. Wilson is still known as an upper NW elite school even though it probably has 600+ FARMS students (more than the entire population of some other schools).

Chancellor Wilson said on the Kojo show the other day that the DCPS has already done a much better job than other school districts with respect to equitably allotting funds. I think his answer was connected to a question about sombody's suggestion that the Ward 3 PTOs should be forced to give some of their charitable contributions to schools that don't have high-contributing PTOs. Based on the Chancellor's answer, I think he believes the current budget policies are already doing enough to address the "equity" argument. But, in the end, I guess that means he believes DCPS doesn't need to cut Wilson's funds any more than it already has.

Hard to believe by some that love to bash Ward 3, but several of these PTOs already give money to poorer schools. Without being made to do so!

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately with the Chancellor's hyper focus on equity, we can expect more cuts to Wilson funding.
They keep thinking that if they pour more and more money into low performing schools, it will make a difference without any regard to how much money is already being wasted in the system. Wilson is still known as an upper NW elite school even though it probably has 600+ FARMS students (more than the entire population of some other schools).

Chancellor Wilson said on the Kojo show the other day that the DCPS has already done a much better job than other school districts with respect to equitably allotting funds. I think his answer was connected to a question about sombody's suggestion that the Ward 3 PTOs should be forced to give some of their charitable contributions to schools that don't have high-contributing PTOs. Based on the Chancellor's answer, I think he believes the current budget policies are already doing enough to address the "equity" argument. But, in the end, I guess that means he believes DCPS doesn't need to cut Wilson's funds any more than it already has.