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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How to put this? Most families in Petworth do not send their kids to Roosevelt. It’s not a good school.

900 kids go there. Obviously many families DO send their kids there. Please just say "white families" if that's what you mean.

Your desire to stir sht up is exceeded by how stupid and ill-informed you are about DC schools. When my Black family moved to Petworth, the first thing all the neighborhood Black and Brown families did was share their tips for using the lottery to get into other schools.

This. I got the same unsolicited advice when I was pregnant. Generations of middle class neighborhood families have avoided schools like Roosevelt. White families don’t have some greater obligation to put their kids in failing schools than Black and Brown families do. A few white savior pioneer types try MacFarland for middle school, but I’ve yet to see any stick around for Roosevelt. I’m sure there’s a few, but I’ve never ran into any in my 15 years in the neighborhood.

Anonymous wrote:Just so we’re clear, not a single poster yet (and we’re on page 4) has ever had a kid at Roosevelt.

OP you are on the wrong forum. DCUM is for rich and/or white folks who say they’re liberal and open-minded and in real life are great at talking the talk but never, ever walk the walk.

Again, you can see where IB students are going instead in the enrollment data, and it's not just either rich or white families that opt out of Roosevelt. You can decide the fact that families of all kinds say no to Roosevelt isn't relevant, but I think it is.

Just so we’re clear, not a single poster yet (and we’re on page 4) has ever had a kid at Roosevelt.

OP you are on the wrong forum. DCUM is for rich and/or white folks who say they’re liberal and open-minded and in real life are great at talking the talk but never, ever walk the walk.

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Anonymous wrote:21.5% of the IB students attend Roosevelt. That's 482 students out of 2,241 who are zoned for it and who attend a DCPS or DC charter.

More than 600 students who IB go to CHEC, Haynes, or Coolidge, which are all schools with basically no white kids. And that's just from the top 4 schools. (The other one is JR.) So already, most of the non-white kids who are zoned for Roosevelt do not attend Roosevelt.

This is probably a stupid question, but if so few IB students attend, who is actually there? Is the school just super under enrolled with IB students?

Roosevelt is currently at 81% utilization of their capacity. In addition to the IB students, there are some OOB students. There are a lot of schools in DC that don't have the capacity for all of their in-boundary students, which makes sense, since that would be a lot of unused capacity.

Anonymous wrote:21.5% of the IB students attend Roosevelt. That's 482 students out of 2,241 who are zoned for it and who attend a DCPS or DC charter.

More than 600 students who IB go to CHEC, Haynes, or Coolidge, which are all schools with basically no white kids. And that's just from the top 4 schools. (The other one is JR.) So already, most of the non-white kids who are zoned for Roosevelt do not attend Roosevelt.

This is probably a stupid question, but if so few IB students attend, who is actually there? Is the school just super under enrolled with IB students?

Anonymous wrote:(To clarify, at least one of the shootings outside of Roosevelt involved a student)

Well that is simply part and parcel of attending a public school in a large metropolitan area.

What drastic intervention would actually change anything at Roosevelt? I just can’t seem to figure out what can change outcomes for the majority of students at schools like this. Seems like we just keep not succeeding at educating so many kids.

I taught at Roosevelt nearly a decade ago. Reading this thread is depressing - it seems like nothing has really changed. Yes, there is a of kids who show up every day, put their head down and try to get their education despite the chaos around them, but it was a very small percentage. I can't speak to the school culture now (I think there have been at least 3 new principals since the two I had in my tenure there, nor do I keep in touch with the current faculty) but I don't see how things would change meaningfully without a drastic intervention.

Anonymous wrote:OP Here
I'm familiar with the area and its challenges. I live here.
Hw is the school itself?
Thanks!

Not good.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP Here
I'm familiar with the area and its challenges. I live here.
Hw is the school itself?
Thanks!

The schools fine.

People are just being alarmist and judgy.

I’m a DCPS teacher. I would not send my kid to Roosevelt. I don’t know any teacher who would send their kid to Roosevelt.

Anonymous wrote:OP Here
I'm familiar with the area and its challenges. I live here.
Hw is the school itself?
Thanks!

The schools fine.

People are just being alarmist and judgy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How to put this? Most families in Petworth do not send their kids to Roosevelt. It’s not a good school.

900 kids go there. Obviously many families DO send their kids there. Please just say "white families" if that's what you mean.

Your desire to stir sht up is exceeded by how stupid and ill-informed you are about DC schools. When my Black family moved to Petworth, the first thing all the neighborhood Black and Brown families did was share their tips for using the lottery to get into other schools.

21.5% of the IB students attend Roosevelt. That's 482 students out of 2,241 who are zoned for it and who attend a DCPS or DC charter.

More than 600 students who IB go to CHEC, Haynes, or Coolidge, which are all schools with basically no white kids. And that's just from the top 4 schools. (The other one is JR.) So already, most of the non-white kids who are zoned for Roosevelt do not attend Roosevelt.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How to put this? Most families in Petworth do not send their kids to Roosevelt. It’s not a good school.

900 kids go there. Obviously many families DO send their kids there. Please just say "white families" if that's what you mean.

From the IB participation rate and the schools students are going to instead, most of the students opting out aren't white.

Well, the boundary data suggests that less than half of kids zoned for Roosevelt go there. So a lot of those kids opting for other schools are not white, unless you want to argue that the Roosevelt boundary is half white, and all of the white kids and none of the Black and Latino/a kids opt out.

Sorry; meant to respond to the "900 kids go there" post, not your's.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How to put this? Most families in Petworth do not send their kids to Roosevelt. It’s not a good school.

900 kids go there. Obviously many families DO send their kids there. Please just say "white families" if that's what you mean.

From the IB participation rate and the schools students are going to instead, most of the students opting out aren't white.

Well, the boundary data suggests that less than half of kids zoned for Roosevelt go there. So a lot of those kids opting for other schools are not white, unless you want to argue that the Roosevelt boundary is half white, and all of the white kids and none of the Black and Latino/a kids opt out.