Anonymous
Post 06/07/2017 11:39     Subject: Re:Jefferson Middle School Academy
And you know this because you have children at both schools and talk to their admins? The current BASIS admins would love a centrally-located building with room for a library, real gym and stage. The franchise would be happy to expand in this city if the DCPCS board stopped hassling them. They find greener pastures instead, from Texas, to Utah, from Minnesota to New York. Latin would also like to upgrade facilities, and to find a second quality campus building they can afford to bring on-line.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2017 11:33     Subject: Re:Jefferson Middle School Academy
Anonymous wrote:Want to understand the hostility? OK then, belatedly solicit input from the silent majority of in-boundary parents in the JA feeders who think that the current "neighborhood middle school" development plan stinks. Hold truly inclusive meetings, conduct surveys etc.

Without the programming to serve students who work at and above grade in place at JA, many of us don't want 30 million renovation dollars frittered away on that building...


Have you even bothered to look and ask about the "programming"? I for one have and now know that there are advanced options at JA. That is more important to our family by the way than a fancy building, or we would have decided in favor of DCI.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2017 11:16     Subject: Re:Jefferson Middle School Academy
Anonymous wrote:Want to understand the hostility? OK then, belatedly solicit input from the silent majority of in-boundary parents in the JA feeders who think that the current "neighborhood middle school" development plan stinks. Hold truly inclusive meetings, conduct surveys etc.

Without the programming to serve students who work at and above grade in place at JA, many of us don't want 30 million renovation dollars frittered away on that building with our tax dollars. How about pushing for the city to spend all that dough on getting BASIS a decent building instead, two middle school buildings actually, and Latin a track, and a second building, preferably in Ward 6. Thank you.


Latin doesn't want a track, and BASIS doesn't want a building from the city.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2017 11:14     Subject: Re:Jefferson Middle School Academy
Want to understand the hostility? OK then, belatedly solicit input from the silent majority of in-boundary parents in the JA feeders who think that the current "neighborhood middle school" development plan stinks. Hold truly inclusive meetings, conduct surveys etc.

Without the programming to serve students who work at and above grade in place at JA, many of us don't want 30 million renovation dollars frittered away on that building with our tax dollars. How about pushing for the city to spend all that dough on getting BASIS a decent building instead, two middle school buildings actually, and Latin a track, and a second building, preferably in Ward 6. Thank you.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2017 11:11     Subject: Jefferson Middle School Academy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:39 kids registered for 5th grade at Brent next year. Whatever happens, it's gonna be an interesting year.



And zero will attend Jefferson.


I am betting that there won't be 39 by Sept 1, as the Latin and BASIS waitlist move.


I don't understand why people are so negative about this. So what if it isn't 39. It certainly will be more than the 26 that were there this year. If some of those parents send their kids to Jefferson, why is that so offensive?


Because it makes those who wavered but ultimately got cold feet and are now spending hours in buses and cars and hunched over too much homework too late at night - with maybe not so much to show for - feel uncomfortable. It is so very much more reassuring if you find that what you decided against was indeed bad and that you made the good choice. It's immature and testimony to the need for validation. It's also human nature, and I've seen people own up to it and grow from it.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2017 10:23     Subject: Jefferson Middle School Academy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:39 kids registered for 5th grade at Brent next year. Whatever happens, it's gonna be an interesting year.



And zero will attend Jefferson.


I am betting that there won't be 39 by Sept 1, as the Latin and BASIS waitlist move.


I don't understand why people are so negative about this. So what if it isn't 39. It certainly will be more than the 26 that were there this year. If some of those parents send their kids to Jefferson, why is that so offensive?
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2017 09:13     Subject: Jefferson Middle School Academy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:39 kids registered for 5th grade at Brent next year. Whatever happens, it's gonna be an interesting year.



And zero will attend Jefferson.


I am betting that there won't be 39 by Sept 1, as the Latin and BASIS waitlist move.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2017 08:17     Subject: Re:Jefferson Middle School Academy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe a few will, but they won't be high SES or white.


Actually, mine will, and neither of your generalizations is true, if that makes you feel better.


Not buying it, at least until the building's been renovated. Such an easy claim to make.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2017 23:30     Subject: Re:Jefferson Middle School Academy
Famous last words. Wash Latin calls.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2017 22:28     Subject: Re:Jefferson Middle School Academy
Anonymous wrote:Maybe a few will, but they won't be high SES or white.


Actually, mine will, and neither of your generalizations is true, if that makes you feel better.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2017 17:33     Subject: Re:Jefferson Middle School Academy
Maybe a few will, but they won't be high SES or white.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2017 17:25     Subject: Jefferson Middle School Academy
Anonymous wrote:39 kids registered for 5th grade at Brent next year. Whatever happens, it's gonna be an interesting year.



And zero will attend Jefferson.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2017 16:54     Subject: Re:Jefferson Middle School Academy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Come on, IB is only as rigorous as the preparation of students in a particular IB program. Kids can scrape by in IB Diploma programs fed by IB Middle Years programs without great rigor, barely clearing the 24-point Diploma pass totals bar on a 24-45 point scale senior year in HS. That's what happens at Banneker and Eastern. I don't expect to see average pass point totals above the 20s at DCI for a decade. In IBD programs, kids must pass 3 or 4 subject tests at the Standard Level (equivalent to AP), and 3 at the Higher Level (equivalent to AP if a student scrapes by, a year or two past AP if they score high). I wouldn't say that IB studies are more rigorous than AP. It all depends on how many APs a student is taking, and which ones - BC Calculus and Physics C anyone?


no one is comparing with AP except you. As one of just 3 DCPS MS with accredited IB it's just an example of the false argument EH makes no effort to provide rigor.


Who argued that? Nobody.

EH admins and teachers surely make heroic efforts to provide their students with great rigor. Problem is, their PARCC proficiency pass rates are in the teens because their students are, a) poor, and, b) poorly taught in EH's feeders. JA's situation is similar. Eventually, EH and JA will be packed with gentrifiers' children, including the grandchildren of some of the current crop.


Gimme a break. 90% of the arguments on DCPS middle school consist of little more than griping over insufficient MS rigor aside from Deal (and sometimes including Deal). UMC families griping that public MS options are somehow beneath them
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2017 16:23     Subject: Jefferson Middle School Academy
39 kids registered for 5th grade at Brent next year. Whatever happens, it's gonna be an interesting year.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2017 16:17     Subject: Re:Jefferson Middle School Academy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Comparison above.
That's not entirely fair. Hardy and SH have earned their lowly reputations, but both Latin and Basis are dedicated to the AP framework. Schools either do IB or AP. The only public IB MS/HS is DCI. IB is more rigorous, but also more expensive. Latin & Basis both have a good track record with AP.


I'm not PP but PP says "more rigorous, but more expensive" -- doesn't compare it to rigor or cost of AP. Could just as easily mean more rigorous and expensive than an non-specialized program


Latin doesn't really have a good track record with AP. Only 18% of the 2016 graduates passed one or more AP exams. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/local/high-school-challenge-2017/


So depressing.