No more Cardozo Middle; feeders to go to FS

[Anonymous]

Garrison families asked for this. And apparently, they get whatever they want.

Just hope this doesn't ruin SWW@F-S, the very solid middle school my child is already bound for because I actually bothered to think about the middle school feeder in picking an elementary. That's a lot of kids to absorb at once for a very small middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Garrison families asked for this. And apparently, they get whatever they want.

Just hope this doesn't ruin SWW@F-S, the very solid middle school my child is already bound for because I actually bothered to think about the middle school feeder in picking an elementary. That's a lot of kids to absorb at once for a very small middle school.

Oh for Pete's sake. Yes Garrison families advocated for this. No Garrison families do not "get whatever they want". This is an acceleration of an already-existing plan to close Cardozo Middle and redirect the feeders to Euclid. It's something DCPS already wanted to do. And the renovation of SWW@FS is probably part of why it's even possible.

Plenty of Garrison-zoned kids already go to SWW@FS so it's not that big a deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Garrison families asked for this. And apparently, they get whatever they want.

Just hope this doesn't ruin SWW@F-S, the very solid middle school my child is already bound for because I actually bothered to think about the middle school feeder in picking an elementary. That's a lot of kids to absorb at once for a very small middle school.

What makes you think people didn't think about it? Perhaps they researched it and decided, quite reasonably, that either SWW@FS isn't great enough to plan around, or that their chances of getting into SWW@FS or something else equally good in the lottery are pretty high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Garrison families asked for this. And apparently, they get whatever they want.

Just hope this doesn't ruin SWW@F-S, the very solid middle school my child is already bound for because I actually bothered to think about the middle school feeder in picking an elementary. That's a lot of kids to absorb at once for a very small middle school.

This is obnxious. Thomson and Ross also didn't have the right to go to FS until they asked for it. Shaw Middle School existed until 2013, and that's were Seaton, Garrison, Cleveland, Thomson and Ross went. I believe FS was just a PK-8. Somehow, Thomson and Ross got themselves routed there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Garrison families asked for this. And apparently, they get whatever they want.

Just hope this doesn't ruin SWW@F-S, the very solid middle school my child is already bound for because I actually bothered to think about the middle school feeder in picking an elementary. That's a lot of kids to absorb at once for a very small middle school.

This is obnxious. Thomson and Ross also didn't have the right to go to FS until they asked for it. Shaw Middle School existed until 2013, and that's were Seaton, Garrison, Cleveland, Thomson and Ross went. I believe FS was just a PK-8. Somehow, Thomson and Ross got themselves routed there.

(if you look back in time, just a few years, Ross and Thomson were supposed to be routed to whatever the new Shaw Middle School was going to be (Cardozo was always meant to be temporary). But the parents must have advocated somehow, because that is off the table now.)

[Anonymous]

I think its good. It will keep some of the 5th grade elementary school cohort at these schools together now that they can plan on it and its no longer pure lottery. It will provide momentum for shaw families to stay dcps before the opening of the new euclid middle school. expanding the middle school at swwfs some by adding these feeders will add more kids at all ability levels including the opportunity for a larger/stronger more advanced ability cohort.

[Anonymous]

One possible, but unlikely, good thing: If these families really are invested in DCPS maybe there will finally, finally be a better option for Center City than Cardozo High School. Or maybe that school will finally improve.

Not holding my breath or anything, but it's possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One possible, but unlikely, good thing: If these families really are invested in DCPS maybe there will finally, finally be a better option for Center City than Cardozo High School. Or maybe that school will finally improve.

Not holding my breath or anything, but it's possible.

Very much doubt Cardozo will improve sufficiently, but I think it's possible that it could be better than it currently is. Relieving the administration of having to manage the middle school may help them do better at managing a high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Garrison families asked for this. And apparently, they get whatever they want.

Just hope this doesn't ruin SWW@F-S, the very solid middle school my child is already bound for because I actually bothered to think about the middle school feeder in picking an elementary. That's a lot of kids to absorb at once for a very small middle school.

Lol omg you're such a bad person

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll state the ugly: white families are in the elementaries and are willing to go to SWW@FS but not Cardozo. It’s clear that DCPS is trying to create pathways for white families. Their meta assumption is that if they create places where white families will join that they’re doing something net good for DC.

And they are, right? I mean, their responsibility is to educate all the students who are born in and live in the district. To give up on educating white students is to abdicate a large part of that job.

[Anonymous]

Don't understand how they will fit into FS (maybe drop some pk classes and have a preference at Stevens?) but this should make a nice sized cohort of kids with enough at various academic levels that everyone has peers. Now the big question is whether they will send all 6 feeders to Euclid or squander this by splitting them back up.

[Anonymous]

Will the enlarged middle school get its own principal? At one point sww had one for pk-12 at two campuses, and Cardozo had one for 6-12. It didn't seem like those models worked very well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't understand how they will fit into FS (maybe drop some pk classes and have a preference at Stevens?) but this should make a nice sized cohort of kids with enough at various academic levels that everyone has peers. Now the big question is whether they will send all 6 feeders to Euclid or squander this by splitting them back up.

SWWFS is undergoing a renovation and will be in a swing space, which is the Old Banneker building on Euclid St, which will then become Euclid (or whatever name it gets) Middle. I think the idea is there will be space in that building for the extra kids, however many it ends up actually being.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't understand how they will fit into FS (maybe drop some pk classes and have a preference at Stevens?) but this should make a nice sized cohort of kids with enough at various academic levels that everyone has peers. Now the big question is whether they will send all 6 feeders to Euclid or squander this by splitting them back up.

SWWFS is undergoing a renovation and will be in a swing space, which is the Old Banneker building on Euclid St, which will then become Euclid (or whatever name it gets) Middle. I think the idea is there will be space in that building for the extra kids, however many it ends up actually being.

They are finishing their time at the swing space and will be returning to their building for this fall. Tubman is using it for two years and then I think it becomes Euclid middle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't understand how they will fit into FS (maybe drop some pk classes and have a preference at Stevens?) but this should make a nice sized cohort of kids with enough at various academic levels that everyone has peers. Now the big question is whether they will send all 6 feeders to Euclid or squander this by splitting them back up.

I didn't even realize that this was on the table for Euclid. I thought the feeders were already determined? (Seaton, Garrison, Cleveland)