Anonymous wrote:Nicaragua? What was the justification for that? My SIL and some others I know well are from there or have lived there. One said, "hell no! Why do you think so many are trying to get out?" Another "what will they learn from there these days? Who will provide security?"

Does anyone know the vendor or specific program? Would you send your child?

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Anonymous wrote:As a charter school parent, great news DCPS! I still don't think a chance at an international trip would lure me away from our amazing school to the shit-Show that is DCPS, but free bikes and free trips overseas are bright shiny objects to make people look away from a crappy school system.

Whatever, nothing to see here.

Free bikes and free study abroad looks great from my WotP neighborhood schools. My youngest kid walks to our fantastic elementary school, and the other child will be in 8th at Deal next year. I'll take the fantastic experience they've had with DCPS any day over the experiment going on at DC charters (I.e., inexperienced teachers, discipline issues, swing space, frequent moves, etc). You're right, nothing for charter parents to see on this thread. You need to start focusing on fundraising for your kids' study abroad trips...right now!

By "walk" are you one of the parents bitching on the Bruce Monroe thread why even though you CAN walk, you drive anyway because it's cold, or rainy, or you go straight to work or Blah..

Yeah...we know you aren't walking.

Bruce Monroe is not a WotP neighborhood school and does not feed to Deal. Also, PP said only that her youngest kid walks to ES, implying that the child is old enough to do so unaccompanied. Mom is free to commute as she pleases without worrying about transporting her kid to school. Yay neighborhood schools!

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Anonymous wrote:Are they literally going to take every 8th and 11th grader who wants to go and who has studied taken language for any period of time? So basically this will fund for example EVERY 8th grader at Deal? If so, that's a huge expense in a school system that can't seem to find the funding for lots of other needs (and is not doing to well educating the city's most disadvantaged). If they want to sponsor trips, I think that's great, but funding should be awarded on a need basis only.

No, and with funding for only 400, you can bet that they will be evenly distributed across the city. 11th graders wlll outrank 8th, and no matter how special your Deal snowflake is, she will not outrank an Eastern 11th grader. This is not meant to reward WOTP families who can pay for their own vacations. This is an attempt to stem the tide EOTP who want DCI over BM and Roosevelt and Eastern.

We'll see. However, there will be middle/upper middle class kids on these free trips--whether you like it or not.

Personally, I couldn't care less. It's just a straightforward analysis of how politics work in DC. You might think that snowflake deserves to go on her merits, however she will only deserve to go relative to her competition at her school. Other schools in other wards will have an equal shot - even if they don't match up academically against snowflake. Sorry. That's the truth - whether you like it or not.

You seem to care an awful lot...lol. Well, if WotP snowflake doesn't get the free trip, her parents will just have to pay for her to study abroad. No need to be "sorry;" snowflake will be just fine.

Who cares a lot? There's a good reason people leave JKLM for LAMB and YY.

Kaya is obviously worried. No-one at Central cares about keeping WOTP students in the system. They're a captive audience. This is about trying to keep or tempt Capital Hill, Shaw, Bloomingdale, and Brookland into DCPS.

Anonymous wrote:Nicaragua? What was the justification for that? My SIL and some others I know well are from there or have lived there. One said, "hell no! Why do you think so many are trying to get out?" Another "what will they learn from there these days? Who will provide security?"

Does anyone know the vendor or specific program? Would you send your child?

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Anonymous wrote:As a charter school parent, great news DCPS! I still don't think a chance at an international trip would lure me away from our amazing school to the shit-Show that is DCPS, but free bikes and free trips overseas are bright shiny objects to make people look away from a crappy school system.

Whatever, nothing to see here.

Free bikes and free study abroad looks great from my WotP neighborhood schools. My youngest kid walks to our fantastic elementary school, and the other child will be in 8th at Deal next year. I'll take the fantastic experience they've had with DCPS any day over the experiment going on at DC charters (I.e., inexperienced teachers, discipline issues, swing space, frequent moves, etc). You're right, nothing for charter parents to see on this thread. You need to start focusing on fundraising for your kids' study abroad trips...right now!

By "walk" are you one of the parents bitching on the Bruce Monroe thread why even though you CAN walk, you drive anyway because it's cold, or rainy, or you go straight to work or Blah..

Yeah...we know you aren't walking.

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Anonymous wrote:Are they literally going to take every 8th and 11th grader who wants to go and who has studied taken language for any period of time? So basically this will fund for example EVERY 8th grader at Deal? If so, that's a huge expense in a school system that can't seem to find the funding for lots of other needs (and is not doing to well educating the city's most disadvantaged). If they want to sponsor trips, I think that's great, but funding should be awarded on a need basis only.

No, and with funding for only 400, you can bet that they will be evenly distributed across the city. 11th graders wlll outrank 8th, and no matter how special your Deal snowflake is, she will not outrank an Eastern 11th grader. This is not meant to reward WOTP families who can pay for their own vacations. This is an attempt to stem the tide EOTP who want DCI over BM and Roosevelt and Eastern.

We'll see. However, there will be middle/upper middle class kids on these free trips--whether you like it or not.

Personally, I couldn't care less. It's just a straightforward analysis of how politics work in DC. You might think that snowflake deserves to go on her merits, however she will only deserve to go relative to her competition at her school. Other schools in other wards will have an equal shot - even if they don't match up academically against snowflake. Sorry. That's the truth - whether you like it or not.

You seem to care an awful lot...lol. Well, if WotP snowflake doesn't get the free trip, her parents will just have to pay for her to study abroad. No need to be "sorry;" snowflake will be just fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Are they literally going to take every 8th and 11th grader who wants to go and who has studied taken language for any period of time? So basically this will fund for example EVERY 8th grader at Deal? If so, that's a huge expense in a school system that can't seem to find the funding for lots of other needs (and is not doing to well educating the city's most disadvantaged). If they want to sponsor trips, I think that's great, but funding should be awarded on a need basis only.

No, and with funding for only 400, you can bet that they will be evenly distributed across the city. 11th graders wlll outrank 8th, and no matter how special your Deal snowflake is, she will not outrank an Eastern 11th grader. This is not meant to reward WOTP families who can pay for their own vacations. This is an attempt to stem the tide EOTP who want DCI over BM and Roosevelt and Eastern.

We'll see. However, there will be middle/upper middle class kids on these free trips--whether you like it or not.

Personally, I couldn't care less. It's just a straightforward analysis of how politics work in DC. You might think that snowflake deserves to go on her merits, however she will only deserve to go relative to her competition at her school. Other schools in other wards will have an equal shot - even if they don't match up academically against snowflake. Sorry. That's the truth - whether you like it or not.

You seem to care an awful lot...lol. Well, if WotP snowflake doesn't get the free trip, her parents will just have to pay for her to study abroad. No need to be "sorry;" snowflake will be just fine.

Anonymous wrote:As a side note, and maybe it's just because I'm EOTP, but those who use "snowflake" over and over to make a point, just sound ignorant. Are you able to make a point any other way?

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Anonymous wrote:As a charter school parent, great news DCPS! I still don't think a chance at an international trip would lure me away from our amazing school to the shit-Show that is DCPS, but free bikes and free trips overseas are bright shiny objects to make people look away from a crappy school system.

Whatever, nothing to see here.

Free bikes and free study abroad looks great from my WotP neighborhood schools. My youngest kid walks to our fantastic elementary school, and the other child will be in 8th at Deal next year. I'll take the fantastic experience they've had with DCPS any day over the experiment going on at DC charters (I.e., inexperienced teachers, discipline issues, swing space, frequent moves, etc). You're right, nothing for charter parents to see on this thread. You need to start focusing on fundraising for your kids' study abroad trips...right now!

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Anonymous wrote:this is pretty much going to be Deal's trip abroad. Perhaps next year they've add need as a criteria.

Politically unpalatable and impossible.

Wilson, Eastern, Cardozo, CHEC, Dunbar 11th will all outrank Deal, because HS will outrank MS.

Furthermore, they're upfront about "spreading the wealth." High score in Ward 8 will vault over middle-high score for Ward 3.

Anonymous wrote:this is pretty much going to be Deal's trip abroad. Perhaps next year they've add need as a criteria.