Kaya explains nooothing.

I am late to the discussion. It seems like a horrible idea without any logic. Can someone tell me what the official position is. To make FS a better school? Why does the administration seem so intent on dismantling Walls. If they don't like magnet schools why not just say so?

Anonymous wrote:It is pure stupidity to have a principal split among two physical locations. It doesn't work for Oyster and it won't work here.

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Anonymous wrote:Another huge problem is that kids who graduate SWW at Frances get no preference for high school. What type of message is that? You are good enough to go to the ES and MS but not for the HS. This idea is a terrible idea. But if they want to make it one school they should make Frances a magnet selective MS with the same core values of Walls HS.

Agree. Then again what's to stop DCPS from suddenly announcing FS will feed to the HS and take away spots from everyone else in the city who would like an opportunity to apply to the HS. Nothing would surprise me. Right now they say FS does not feed and everyone has to apply like everyone else in the city, but I would be surprised if that stayed true based on DCPS's irrational and illogical decision making process.

Another huge problem is that kids who graduate SWW at Frances get no preference for high school. What type of message is that? You are good enough to go to the ES and MS but not for the HS. This idea is a terrible idea. But if they want to make it one school they should make Frances a magnet selective MS with the same core values of Walls HS.

It is pure stupidity to have a principal split among two physical locations. It doesn't work for Oyster and it won't work here.

Let me get this straight. Take a high performing, highly selective high school with kids from all over the city and randomly take a neighborhood k-8 school a mile away and merge the two together. I heard the principle try to make the case that splitting his time between the two campuses and spending time on k-8 issues does not distract him from the high school students. Really? The high school students deserve a full time principal and the kids at francis deserve better than this social engineering experiment run amuck. Take a pearl in DCPS and make it as mediocre as the rest of the schools. Who do you suggest that we write to to put and end to this lunacy? Henderson, Gray, Catania?

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Anonymous wrote:BTW, FS feeds to Cardozo unless you live IB for Wilson.

Yes, but it has a middle school and people then try to get in to charters/selective DCPS for high school. Ross, on the other hand, does not have a middle school, so it feeds to Cardozo for middle school, which is also the school that people in boundary for Ross have as their in-boundary middle school. That's why they are beginning to move to SWW@F-S.

Francis-Stevens MS boundaries are huge comparatively speaking, encompassing nearly all of Ross and crossing downtown all the way to 7th St (or so). Many families IB for Thomson for ES can go to Francis-Stevens for MS.

It seems that if you are inbounds for ES, you are also inbounds for MS.

The MS is small- max size is 50 kids per grade. Based on the dearth of good MS is the city, a school for 150 does not do a whole lot in terms of filling a need.

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Anonymous wrote:BTW, FS feeds to Cardozo unless you live IB for Wilson.

Yes, but it has a middle school and people then try to get in to charters/selective DCPS for high school. Ross, on the other hand, does not have a middle school, so it feeds to Cardozo for middle school, which is also the school that people in boundary for Ross have as their in-boundary middle school. That's why they are beginning to move to SWW@F-S.

Francis-Stevens MS boundaries are huge comparatively speaking, encompassing nearly all of Ross and crossing downtown all the way to 7th St (or so). Many families IB for Thomson for ES can go to Francis-Stevens for MS.

They are large, but there are definitely people IB for Ross who are OOB for FS.

Or I should say, who go to Ross (perhaps they are OOB as they are not in the early childhood grades)

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Anonymous wrote:BTW, FS feeds to Cardozo unless you live IB for Wilson.

Yes, but it has a middle school and people then try to get in to charters/selective DCPS for high school. Ross, on the other hand, does not have a middle school, so it feeds to Cardozo for middle school, which is also the school that people in boundary for Ross have as their in-boundary middle school. That's why they are beginning to move to SWW@F-S.

Francis-Stevens MS boundaries are huge comparatively speaking, encompassing nearly all of Ross and crossing downtown all the way to 7th St (or so). Many families IB for Thomson for ES can go to Francis-Stevens for MS.

They are large, but there are definitely people IB for Ross who are OOB for FS.

Anonymous wrote:You must not have a high school aged kid to be so flip

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Anonymous wrote:BTW, FS feeds to Cardozo unless you live IB for Wilson.

Yes, but it has a middle school and people then try to get in to charters/selective DCPS for high school. Ross, on the other hand, does not have a middle school, so it feeds to Cardozo for middle school, which is also the school that people in boundary for Ross have as their in-boundary middle school. That's why they are beginning to move to SWW@F-S.

Francis-Stevens MS boundaries are huge comparatively speaking, encompassing nearly all of Ross and crossing downtown all the way to 7th St (or so). Many families IB for Thomson for ES can go to Francis-Stevens for MS.

Anonymous wrote:BTW, FS feeds to Cardozo unless you live IB for Wilson.

Yes, but it has a middle school and people then try to get in to charters/selective DCPS for high school. Ross, on the other hand, does not have a middle school, so it feeds to Cardozo for middle school, which is also the school that people in boundary for Ross have as their in-boundary middle school. That's why they are beginning to move to SWW@F-S.

You must not have a high school aged kid to be so flip