Watch how many 4th grade families enter the lottery for Latin and BASIS for 5th grade. There is a lot of talk about trying out IB middle and high schools until parents actually have to make the choice to send their kids there.

Anonymous wrote:Powell and Bruce Monroe as well.

I have a rising 4th grader at BM. its been great (and BM wasnt' our first choice) Iam not solc on Macfarland middle at all. But for sure, BM is retaining a lot of UMC families through 4th now. I just had a conversation recently about quite a few UMC families all willing to give MacFarland a try for 6th grade at least.

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Anonymous wrote:What are some Ward 4 families currently doing/planning for elementary and middle school?

Trying to lottery repeatedly into charters that feed to DCI?

Doing elementary at one of the public neighborhood schools and then trying to get into BASIS or Latin?

What about other middle school options like Cap City?

Every family that I know from my children’s day care in Ward 4 end up at a DCI feeder (LAMB, MV, and DCB) since preK3 or preK4.

There are many of us that chose our neighborhood DCPS. We’re a pretty chill group overall (and yes, we have many neighbors at DCI feeders), so you probably don’t hear as much playground chat/stress talk from us.

What grade are your children in?

Kinder and second.

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Shepherd covers one of the few black communities in DC that didn't experience Black Flight (which is often missed when discussing white flight). Most middle class black families there didn't move to PG/MoCo when DC declined in the 70-90s and crime didn't spike there. It remains a great place to live.


Yelp...I'd say Brightwood, Chillum, etc. seem to have remained steady. But that's the 800 lb guerilla. DCPS needs Middle Class and UMC black families to buy for advanced programming to be a real option system wide. Those are the families that have remained vested in the city and are not as prone to leave. It's a heavy lift because those scars run deep.
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Those are also the families who definitely do NOT use their by-right public schools like Coolidge---instead, they opt for Wilson (if zoned for it), Walls, Banneker, charter schools like Latin, Basis, DCI and EL Haynes, or else privates like St. John's.

You make absolutely no sense. In your attempt to chastise black folk, you literally contradicted yourself in one sentence. How can black folk NOT use their by-right school of Coolidge if they are zoned for Wilson?

PS- it was these black families as well as other EOTP black families that were attending Wilson 10-40 years ago when the white IB Wilson families were opting out of Wilson so please with all the judgment and finger pointing of black wealthy families (I’m assuming you meant in Takoma and Brightwood and not Shepherd Park) of not opting into their schools. White wealth families are still opting out of thing Hill middle schools, Ward 2/3 Elementary schools, Deal, and Hardy and Wilson in lieu of private and charter schools. It’s okay for wealthy white families to do it but not black?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are some Ward 4 families currently doing/planning for elementary and middle school?

Trying to lottery repeatedly into charters that feed to DCI?

Doing elementary at one of the public neighborhood schools and then trying to get into BASIS or Latin?

What about other middle school options like Cap City?

Every family that I know from my children’s day care in Ward 4 end up at a DCI feeder (LAMB, MV, and DCB) since preK3 or preK4.

I find it surprising that you don't know any families that struck out on the PK lottery for DCI feeders. We struck out in both PK3 and PK4 and by the time we got into one in K, we had found another situation we liked and didn't want to move our kid.

I think the better explanation here is that YOUt went to a DCI feeder in PK and have self-selected to stay in touch with other parents who did the same and prioritized it. I guarantee there are kids from you child's daycare going to other schools, either other charters or DCPS or private or they moved.

People don't seem to understand how self-selecting "families I know" tends to be. Your contact list is not a representative sample of any population.

No, everyone went into a DCI feeder.

DP and your daycare has incredible luck because many at my kid’s struck out at the immersion schools (including us) and a whole bunch of families in my neighborhood struck out at all of those too.

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Anonymous wrote:What are some Ward 4 families currently doing/planning for elementary and middle school?

Trying to lottery repeatedly into charters that feed to DCI?

Doing elementary at one of the public neighborhood schools and then trying to get into BASIS or Latin?

What about other middle school options like Cap City?

Every family that I know from my children’s day care in Ward 4 end up at a DCI feeder (LAMB, MV, and DCB) since preK3 or preK4.

I find it surprising that you don't know any families that struck out on the PK lottery for DCI feeders. We struck out in both PK3 and PK4 and by the time we got into one in K, we had found another situation we liked and didn't want to move our kid.

I think the better explanation here is that YOUt went to a DCI feeder in PK and have self-selected to stay in touch with other parents who did the same and prioritized it. I guarantee there are kids from you child's daycare going to other schools, either other charters or DCPS or private or they moved.

People don't seem to understand how self-selecting "families I know" tends to be. Your contact list is not a representative sample of any population.

No, everyone went into a DCI feeder.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are some Ward 4 families currently doing/planning for elementary and middle school?

Trying to lottery repeatedly into charters that feed to DCI?

Doing elementary at one of the public neighborhood schools and then trying to get into BASIS or Latin?

What about other middle school options like Cap City?

Every family that I know from my children’s day care in Ward 4 end up at a DCI feeder (LAMB, MV, and DCB) since preK3 or preK4.

I find it surprising that you don't know any families that struck out on the PK lottery for DCI feeders. We struck out in both PK3 and PK4 and by the time we got into one in K, we had found another situation we liked and didn't want to move our kid.

I think the better explanation here is that YOU went to a DCI feeder in PK and have self-selected to stay in touch with other parents who did the same and prioritized it. I guarantee there are kids from you child's daycare going to other schools, either other charters or DCPS or private or they moved.

People don't seem to understand how self-selecting "families I know" tends to be. Your contact list is not a representative sample of any population.

::Snaps:: lots.of truth here

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Anonymous wrote:What are some Ward 4 families currently doing/planning for elementary and middle school?

Trying to lottery repeatedly into charters that feed to DCI?

Doing elementary at one of the public neighborhood schools and then trying to get into BASIS or Latin?

What about other middle school options like Cap City?

Every family that I know from my children’s day care in Ward 4 end up at a DCI feeder (LAMB, MV, and DCB) since preK3 or preK4.

I find it surprising that you don't know any families that struck out on the PK lottery for DCI feeders. We struck out in both PK3 and PK4 and by the time we got into one in K, we had found another situation we liked and didn't want to move our kid.

I think the better explanation here is that YOU went to a DCI feeder in PK and have self-selected to stay in touch with other parents who did the same and prioritized it. I guarantee there are kids from you child's daycare going to other schools, either other charters or DCPS or private or they moved.

People don't seem to understand how self-selecting "families I know" tends to be. Your contact list is not a representative sample of any population.

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Shepherd covers one of the few black communities in DC that didn't experience Black Flight (which is often missed when discussing white flight). Most middle class black families there didn't move to PG/MoCo when DC declined in the 70-90s and crime didn't spike there. It remains a great place to live.


Yelp...I'd say Brightwood, Chillum, etc. seem to have remained steady. But that's the 800 lb guerilla. DCPS needs Middle Class and UMC black families to buy for advanced programming to be a real option system wide. Those are the families that have remained vested in the city and are not as prone to leave. It's a heavy lift because those scars run deep.
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Those are also the families who definitely do NOT use their by-right public schools like Coolidge---instead, they opt for Wilson (if zoned for it), Walls, Banneker, charter schools like Latin, Basis, DCI and EL Haynes, or else privates like St. John's.

Yelp and they have a great deal of history and vitriol towards DCPS. They have been our education consultants

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are some Ward 4 families currently doing/planning for elementary and middle school?

Trying to lottery repeatedly into charters that feed to DCI?

Doing elementary at one of the public neighborhood schools and then trying to get into BASIS or Latin?

What about other middle school options like Cap City?

Every family that I know from my children’s day care in Ward 4 end up at a DCI feeder (LAMB, MV, and DCB) since preK3 or preK4.

There are many of us that chose our neighborhood DCPS. We’re a pretty chill group overall (and yes, we have many neighbors at DCI feeders), so you probably don’t hear as much playground chat/stress talk from us.

What grade are your children in?

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Shepherd covers one of the few black communities in DC that didn't experience Black Flight (which is often missed when discussing white flight). Most middle class black families there didn't move to PG/MoCo when DC declined in the 70-90s and crime didn't spike there. It remains a great place to live.


Yelp...I'd say Brightwood, Chillum, etc. seem to have remained steady. But that's the 800 lb guerilla. DCPS needs Middle Class and UMC black families to buy for advanced programming to be a real option system wide. Those are the families that have remained vested in the city and are not as prone to leave. It's a heavy lift because those scars run deep.
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Those are also the families who definitely do NOT use their by-right public schools like Coolidge---instead, they opt for Wilson (if zoned for it), Walls, Banneker, charter schools like Latin, Basis, DCI and EL Haynes, or else privates like St. John's.

This is true. I know half a dozen young black professionals that graduated from DC schools. All went to Wilson, Walls, or Banneker despite living EOTP. They stayed because they had access to better middle and high schools, not because they made their neighborhood high school work for them.

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Anonymous wrote:What are some Ward 4 families currently doing/planning for elementary and middle school?

Trying to lottery repeatedly into charters that feed to DCI?

Doing elementary at one of the public neighborhood schools and then trying to get into BASIS or Latin?

What about other middle school options like Cap City?

Every family that I know from my children’s day care in Ward 4 end up at a DCI feeder (LAMB, MV, and DCB) since preK3 or preK4.

There are many of us that chose our neighborhood DCPS. We’re a pretty chill group overall (and yes, we have many neighbors at DCI feeders), so you probably don’t hear as much playground chat/stress talk from us.

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Shepherd covers one of the few black communities in DC that didn't experience Black Flight (which is often missed when discussing white flight). Most middle class black families there didn't move to PG/MoCo when DC declined in the 70-90s and crime didn't spike there. It remains a great place to live.


Yelp...I'd say Brightwood, Chillum, etc. seem to have remained steady. But that's the 800 lb guerilla. DCPS needs Middle Class and UMC black families to buy for advanced programming to be a real option system wide. Those are the families that have remained vested in the city and are not as prone to leave. It's a heavy lift because those scars run deep.
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Those are also the families who definitely do NOT use their by-right public schools like Coolidge---instead, they opt for Wilson (if zoned for it), Walls, Banneker, charter schools like Latin, Basis, DCI and EL Haynes, or else privates like St. John's.

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Anonymous wrote:Shepherd

Shepherd isn’t title one

It’s hilarious that PP thought that because Shepherd has black students that they have to be Title 1. Shepherd is 19% economically disadvantaged and 60% black, imagine that…non poor black folk. Even rich black folk (again imagine that). And every single disadvantaged kid is welcome at Shepherd. There is no us vs them.

Shepherd covers one of the few black communities in DC that didn't experience Black Flight (which is often missed when discussing white flight). Most middle class black families there didn't move to PG/MoCo when DC declined in the 70-90s and crime didn't spike there. It remains a great place to live.

Yelp...I'd say Brightwood, Chillum, etc. seem to have remained steady. But that's the 800 lb guerilla. DCPS needs Middle Class and UMC black families to buy for advanced programming to be a real option system wide. Those are the families that have remained vested in the city and are not as prone to leave. It's a heavy lift because those scars run deep.

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Anonymous wrote:Shepherd

Shepherd isn’t title one

It’s hilarious that PP thought that because Shepherd has black students that they have to be Title 1. Shepherd is 19% economically disadvantaged and 60% black, imagine that…non poor black folk. Even rich black folk (again imagine that). And every single disadvantaged kid is welcome at Shepherd. There is no us vs them.

Shepherd covers one of the few black communities in DC that didn't experience Black Flight (which is often missed when discussing white flight). Most middle class black families there didn't move to PG/MoCo when DC declined in the 70-90s and crime didn't spike there. It remains a great place to live.