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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Poor Garrison.[/quote] I really feel bad for them. Where are Garrison boosters? They seemed very hopeful on the renovations and the success of the school.[/quote] I never understood the Garrison folks. I went to one of the meetings as I live in the neighborhood and none of the vocal folks even had kids at Garrison. Made no sense. [/quote] They like the idea of neighborhood schools, and they have way too much faith in DCPS. But they love their own children too much to make them pawns.[/quote] Really? I live in bounds for Garrison and know a lot of families from the local playgrounds who have their kids at Garrison and most are happy with it (for preschool at least - I don't personally know people whose kids are older). I feel bad that the school is being passed over again- I don't understand the process enough to understand how they keep promising the renovation and then delaying. It definitely seems like DCPS does not care about turning that school around.[/quote] Yes, this is exactly what I am talking about. There has been huge, vocal neighborhood support and buy-in in the early years for several years. The families enter and work hard to make it a strong school, like your friends are likely doing now. DCPS throws them a bone, they work harder, DCPS steals the bone, the kids get older, the parents realize DCPS is not going to create a better path for after early ed, the parents move their kids, new toddlers enter and the cycle repeats. The idea that neighborhood but-in turns the school around is patently false in DCPS. It is believed only by those who have small children and haven't watched the cycle repeat.[/quote]
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