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Old 09-13-2020, 08:44 AM
 
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By the way Woodrow managed to get a National Merit Semifinalist this year:


https://thehub.dallasisd.org/2020/09...rship-program/
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Old 09-13-2020, 10:43 PM
 
Location: South Dallas TX
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Did you transfer in? How did you qualify?

p.s. Zaragoza is zoned to Spence/ North Dallas HS
Went to long (it was my home middle) then I got transferred to Dade (DISD zoning crap), where I realized I would not get the education I needed there. So I tested into Dealey 8th grade (one of the best things that ever happened to me).

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Old 09-13-2020, 10:45 PM
 
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So you would not recommend for anyone else considering Lakewood? Are the IB classes mostly Lakewood kids?
Now alot of my post was generally biased. But definitely most of the IB classes are Lakewood kids. Personally, I would not recommend Long, but I had a bad experience there so take it with a grain of salt.
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Old 09-13-2020, 10:49 PM
 
Location: South Dallas TX
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I wouldn’t read too much into that poster. They went to Long for one year a long time ago and our clearly negative towards the affluent Lakewood population.

Families with kids currently in Long and living in Lakewood that I have spoken to (I live in Lakewood) are happy with Long and very happy with Woodrow.
Yeah I 100% agree. I had a terrible experience there and I'm making it known. But yeah it makes sense that families with kids who live in Lakewood have good experiences there, - kindof my point -.
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Old 09-14-2020, 06:25 AM
 
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Yeah I 100% agree. I had a terrible experience there and I'm making it known. But yeah it makes sense that families with kids who live in Lakewood have good experiences there, - kindof my point -.

I seem to remember a Dallas Observer headline from a few (10?) years ago that read something like "Woodrow Wilson is a great high school -- if you're white". Couldn't find it on Google just now so maybe I'm misremembering.
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Old 09-14-2020, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Yankee loves Dallas
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I seem to remember a Dallas Observer headline from a few (10?) years ago that read something like "Woodrow Wilson is a great high school -- if you're white". Couldn't find it on Google just now so maybe I'm misremembering.

Here's a link to that article, which kicked off a big debate, that's for sure --

https://www.webcitation.org/6btnBTsW....5e1d781e.html

The Wikipedia entry on Woodrow has a whole section dedicated to that controversy --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodro...'s_article


IMHO, those issues are present at every school in America which serves a socioeconomically diverse range of students. It's good to be frank about the challenges and tensions, while crediting people's best efforts, but I wouldn't blame Woodrow for being any worse than any of its peers in that respect...
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Old 09-14-2020, 04:07 PM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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Here's a link to that article, which kicked off a big debate, that's for sure --

https://www.webcitation.org/6btnBTsW....5e1d781e.html

The Wikipedia entry on Woodrow has a whole section dedicated to that controversy --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodro...'s_article


IMHO, those issues are present at every school in America which serves a socioeconomically diverse range of students. It's good to be frank about the challenges and tensions, while crediting people's best efforts, but I wouldn't blame Woodrow for being any worse than any of its peers in that respect...
What's interesting is back then Woodrow had about 300 White kids, now it has close to 600. There clearly has been a strong trend towards Lakewood area White students attending Woodrow. Woodrow is now about 50/50 in terms of Economically Disadvantage Students (while most of DISD is 90% ED).
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Old 09-28-2020, 01:26 PM
 
Location: Yankee loves Dallas
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What's interesting is back then Woodrow had about 300 White kids, now it has close to 600. There clearly has been a strong trend towards Lakewood area White students attending Woodrow. Woodrow is now about 50/50 in terms of Economically Disadvantage Students (while most of DISD is 90% ED).
Very interesting, thanks. I looked up the details here:

https://www.schooldigger.com/go/TX/s...87/school.aspx

Apparently, back in 1988, white students at Woodrow numbered 343 (i.e. 26% of a much smaller student body) and declined in both numerical and percentage terms to 222 in 2010 (15.6% of students then).

So the 559 white students in 2019 (28.7% of students) are not only 2x the absolute number in 2010 (the all-time low), but a higher percentage than even 30 years ago.

Hispanic students have numbered between 60 and 70 percent of the student body, virtually every year since 1991, growing and shrinking in absolute numbers along with the overall count. While the percentage of black students has been mostly declining every year.


The percentage of economically disadvantaged students hovered between 51 and 57 percent since 2005, but then dropped to 47 percent in 2019.
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