Anonymous
Post 03/23/2014 12:44     Subject: What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Janney/Lafayette
Latin
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2014 10:06     Subject: What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Shepherd
Stokes


Love Shepherd. If we lived 3 blocks closer, we'd be IB.

I would say Shepherd and LAMB.
Can you can proximity preference for Shepherd?
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2014 09:23     Subject: What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Anonymous wrote:Shepherd
Stokes


Love Shepherd. If we lived 3 blocks closer, we'd be IB.

I would say Shepherd and LAMB.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2014 09:17     Subject: What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Shepherd
Stokes
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2014 09:15     Subject: What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Anonymous wrote:CM
Ross

+1
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 23:51     Subject: Re:What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ellington
CCPCS


Same here. What art for Ellington?


Tech Theater. You?


Visual arts. P.s. Isn't the renovation going to be amazing?!
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 22:04     Subject: What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Instead of making Wilson open to the whole city, they should do the opposite, and make it test-in.

Alas, DC can't see the obvious.


Really? When has Wilson ever been open to the whole city.


The rumor is it will be by lottery.


Thanks! I didn't know.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:47     Subject: What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

BASIS, then LATIN, then SWW
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:39     Subject: Re:What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
LAMB is getting a lot of love here, that's nice to see! Not surprising, but I didn't know the demand (in this particular random sample) outweighed demand for so many of these other schools. Interesting, good for LAMB!

Signed: NOT a LAMB parent


Agreed. So funny-- we started in 3 rooms in a church with 60 kids, a little red cart of books for a library.
Happy to have helped build something so great for the city.

Signed: LAMB alum parent


We still have the red cart reminder folks that this is all just abou a school and that any school, whether you get it for "free" or for "fee" will alternate madden you and intoxicate you. Your child will love it one month and hate it the next, and Then back again. And your home environment and your level of stress will be the ultimate arbiters of your child's experience of childhood. If you want to stay in the community you currently live in then find a school, any school, roll up your sleeves and make it work. Good luck everyone!


Thank you for this!
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:37     Subject: Re:What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Anonymous wrote:
LAMB is getting a lot of love here, that's nice to see! Not surprising, but I didn't know the demand (in this particular random sample) outweighed demand for so many of these other schools. Interesting, good for LAMB!

Signed: NOT a LAMB parent


Agreed. So funny-- we started in 3 rooms in a church with 60 kids, a little red cart of books for a library.
Happy to have helped build something so great for the city.

Signed: LAMB alum parent


We still have the red cart reminder folks that this is all just abou a school and that any school, whether you get it for "free" or for "fee" will alternate madden you and intoxicate you. Your child will love it one month and hate it the next, and Then back again. And your home environment and your level of stress will be the ultimate arbiters of your child's experience of childhood. If you want to stay in the community you currently live in then find a school, any school, roll up your sleeves and make it work. Good luck everyone!
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:16     Subject: What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Instead of making Wilson open to the whole city, they should do the opposite, and make it test-in.

Alas, DC can't see the obvious.


Really? When has Wilson ever been open to the whole city.


The rumor is it will be by lottery.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:16     Subject: What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Inspired
Thomson


I'm inbounds for Thomson, although my child is at a different school, and would love to hear your reasoning for it being first choice as I haven't kept up as much as I would have wanted to over the past few years.



I just have a gut feeling about it. I think it is going to be one of those schools within months to a year people are thinking "why didn't I xyz..."
I like the International Baccalaureate model and the option of Mandarin. I like the convenience. The tour I went on felt right. I love driving past it daily and seeing the intergenerational Chinatown families mixing with the "new" downtown families.

"Downtown" and Thomson inboundary proper is changing dramatically. I think we'll be hearing more about Thomson, and I hope to be a part of it.

I put it high on my list and will be pleased if we are given the opportunity.



Ok, I'll caveat, #1 school that isn't filled with inboundary siblings that I have an iota of a chance of getting in, coming from a terrible inbound situation.
That sounds great but really...#1?
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:05     Subject: What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Washington Latin, but it's going to be next to impossible as we're not 5th or 6th
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:03     Subject: Re:What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Anonymous wrote:Ellington
CCPCS


YOu can even get transferred now for CCPCS middle and high school.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 20:57     Subject: What is your dream DCPS and Charter?

Anonymous wrote:Instead of making Wilson open to the whole city, they should do the opposite, and make it test-in.

Alas, DC can't see the obvious.


Really? When has Wilson ever been open to the whole city.