Anonymous
Post 05/27/2020 09:57     Subject: Re:Wilson Overenrolled.
There are very few UMC black families at Wilson. I’m guessing they do private for many reasons. This may be one reason there is such an achievement gap between the white and black kids at Wilson.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2020 08:47     Subject: Wilson Overenrolled.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I wonder how the OOB parents feel about their kids spending hours on the Metro eacb day this fall. You have to think their neighborhood schools that they can walk to will be more attractive this year.
I'm an OB Wilson parent. No, my IB school is not more attractive. I work near Wilson and am willing to drive my kid if need be.


If you work near Wilson, want your kid to go be with those type of neighborhood kids but yet you don't want to invest into the community. You're a free loader and the type of parent we want out of Wilson. Go make your neighborhood better instead of making ours worse


Same goes for those gentrified neighbors who send their kids to Charters or OOB to avoid their IB school. We can live in this neighborhood but not attend the school.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2020 00:43     Subject: Re:Wilson Overenrolled.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous that DCPS has only one mediocre/acceptable comprehensive HS. DCPS has clearly given up on its high schools. Why would they have started two new early college high schools last year instead of Investing the money into existing high schools. Almost all the high schools are underenrolled. Why did we need new ones? Ron Brown was opened with great fanfare and it has also been a mess and their star principal is quietly exiting



+1 Money doesn’t solve everything. There was a long thread on this. You could build high schools that look like Taj Mahals (and DCPS did), change the names (FCPS did), lie about attendance/dropout records, etc and the schools’s performance won’t change. It’s not about race. It’s about students whose families are connected to their kids’ educations. That is why WOTP schools do well.


It's about class, and I don't know how you begin to separate race from class in this particularly city, where almost all the white kids in DC public schools are from UMC families, the great majority of the AA kids aren't, and the housing stock has never really desegregated. Moreover, UMC AA students don't perform quite as well as UMC white kids on standardized tests, mainly because most middle-class AA families are newer to the middle-class than whites. We can all pretend that the achievement gap has nothing to do with race, but, very sadly, that's not true.

Signed
Minority DCPS Parent EotP (with children in a school that's whiter than several WOTP)


Stop signing your name with minority if you’re talking about black issues and you’re not black. Period. DCUM does this all the time. You don’t have any special insight of black issues because you’re Asian (or whatever “minority” other than black). Also, you’re very wrong about your assumption about why Black UMC don’t perform as well as white UMC students.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2020 23:37     Subject: Re:Wilson Overenrolled.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous that DCPS has only one mediocre/acceptable comprehensive HS. DCPS has clearly given up on its high schools. Why would they have started two new early college high schools last year instead of Investing the money into existing high schools. Almost all the high schools are underenrolled. Why did we need new ones? Ron Brown was opened with great fanfare and it has also been a mess and their star principal is quietly exiting



+1 Money doesn’t solve everything. There was a long thread on this. You could build high schools that look like Taj Mahals (and DCPS did), change the names (FCPS did), lie about attendance/dropout records, etc and the schools’s performance won’t change. It’s not about race. It’s about students whose families are connected to their kids’ educations. That is why WOTP schools do well.


It's about class, and I don't know how you begin to separate race from class in this particularly city, where almost all the white kids in DC public schools are from UMC families, the great majority of the AA kids aren't, and the housing stock has never really desegregated. Moreover, UMC AA students don't perform quite as well as UMC white kids on standardized tests, mainly because most middle-class AA families are newer to the middle-class than whites. We can all pretend that the achievement gap has nothing to do with race, but, very sadly, that's not true.

Signed
Minority DCPS Parent EotP (with children in a school that's whiter than several WOTP)
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2020 15:40     Subject: Re:Wilson Overenrolled.
Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous that DCPS has only one mediocre/acceptable comprehensive HS. DCPS has clearly given up on its high schools. Why would they have started two new early college high schools last year instead of Investing the money into existing high schools. Almost all the high schools are underenrolled. Why did we need new ones? Ron Brown was opened with great fanfare and it has also been a mess and their star principal is quietly exiting



+1 Money doesn’t solve everything. There was a long thread on this. You could build high schools that look like Taj Mahals (and DCPS did), change the names (FCPS did), lie about attendance/dropout records, etc and the schools’s performance won’t change. It’s not about race. It’s about students whose families are connected to their kids’ educations. That is why WOTP schools do well.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2020 11:33     Subject: Wilson Overenrolled.
It took months to unenroll them but they kept the per pupil funding. You don’t understand why the school is overenrolled?
They enroll OOB kids that rarely attend and keep the cash.

Slick. (Also unethical.)
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2020 09:37     Subject: Re:Wilson Overenrolled.
Anonymous wrote:i wonder if people who have the choice of Wilson or another high school (Walls, Latin, DCI, BASIS, private) are more likely to opt for the other choice in light of coronavirus.


I know a few kids with Walls acceptances who chose Wilson. Plenty going to Walls, as well, but I think the convenience of Wilson for in-bound kids could be a factor in decision-making (or at least could counterbalance other COVID-19-related concerns). Having to take public transportation to school won’t be ideal this fall.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2020 08:35     Subject: Re:Wilson Overenrolled.
Ridiculous that DCPS has only one mediocre/acceptable comprehensive HS. DCPS has clearly given up on its high schools. Why would they have started two new early college high schools last year instead of Investing the money into existing high schools. Almost all the high schools are underenrolled. Why did we need new ones? Ron Brown was opened with great fanfare and it has also been a mess and their star principal is quietly exiting
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2020 07:17     Subject: Wilson Overenrolled.
That seems like a strange practice.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2020 00:38     Subject: Wilson Overenrolled.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Last year's 9th grade class had a 23% withdrawal rate?"

Thats a real vote of confidence with there.


No, they automatically transfer all kids from Deal and Hardy to Wilson, even the ones who already filled out the paperwork to say they are going to private school for 9th, then they "unenroll" them from Wilson even though they never actually enrolled.


It took months to unenrolled my kid, and she was never enrolled In Wilson by us
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2020 08:27     Subject: Wilson Overenrolled.
DCI is a large school with over 1,000 students in a space much smaller than Wilson.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2020 06:49     Subject: Re:Wilson Overenrolled.
i wonder if people who have the choice of Wilson or another high school (Walls, Latin, DCI, BASIS, private) are more likely to opt for the other choice in light of coronavirus.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2020 01:52     Subject: Wilson Overenrolled.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Get rid of OOB feeder rights. Pull bancroft, Sheperd, Oyster out of the feeder pattern. Problem solved.


Doesn’t solve your issue. These schools in total only send maybe 100 kids a year. Lafayette is the issue.


Same could be said for Key, Stoddert and Mann. Hardy should feed to Ellington where there is extra space. Create a high school that serves DC students who don’t want the arts component.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2020 16:22     Subject: Wilson Overenrolled.
Here is a thought. Move to a district that has more than 1 by-right, passable HS.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2020 12:02     Subject: Re:Wilson Overenrolled.
Pp here. If I am inboundary for a terrible school I don’t mind by kid knowing that.