New school(s) in Ward 3
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Anonymous
Or, even better considering how big Wilson is, you get to do sports/theater/arts/etc with just other 9th graders, so that there's actually space for you and you could contemplate trying new activities. |
Anonymous
Somewhere at Hardy Rec Center. |
Anonymous
Key, Mann and Stoddert are all projected to be way over-crowded. |
Anonymous
Same here, in a very large suburban district in 1990s Upstate New York. The idea of a separate ninth-grade building is far more prevalent than many posters here realize. |
Anonymous
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I love how such an impactful decision re: schools for Wards 2 and 3 means that dcps will have just one meeting with each impacted school, and that's it.
This tells me they've already made their decision and all this is wasted time for theatric purposes only. My vote would be a second high school. Preferably make current Hardy MS a high school since it's on Wisconsin Ave and easier bus access. |
Anonymous
That would certainly make the most sense: High Schools should be drawing from a wider community, and Wisconsin Avenue is the only artery that makes a practical case for transport access. The lack of sports fields is a problem, but could be resolved by expanding Jelleff across the street. However, if you put the new HS at Hardy, it sits literally right next to the giant, $250-million-dollar Taj Mahal of arts education, Duke Ellington. Talk about a problem of optics: two high schools right next to each other, Ellington always under-occupied and the new HS next to it soon to be bursting at the seams (unless they add more classroom space, somehow). It would make just too much sense to combine the two campuses, but think about the squawks of outrage from the Duke community if that were under consideration. If you put the Duke students at the new HS for academic classes, the whole Duke building could be used for arts and music. |
Anonymous
| do people actually call it Duke instead of Ellington? |
Anonymous
Did anyone ever refer to Mr. Duke Ellington as Mr. Ellington? |
Anonymous
| Are there any instance in DCPS of a school that serves only grades 3-5? Pros, cons? |
Anonymous
Why even ask the question? On its face, the idea is patently ridiculous. Have you ever seen a automobile with only two gears, let alone seen anyone purchase one? The root issue here is that DCPS came across some real estate, and now what to do with it? "Let's build a new elementary school less than a mile away from four other (all roughly equidistant from the new real estate) ones!" Who's with me?! |
Anonymous
The students call it Duke |
Anonymous
Moco has some. |
Anonymous
MCPS has several schools that are split into K-2 and 3-5 clusters, so it's not as ridiculous or unusual even in this area as you make it sound. (Nor, really, is the idea of having lots of elementary schools so near together -- my elementary school in MCPS in the 1980s was 1.3 miles from the nearest other elementary school, both of which fed the same intermediate school (which was only grades 7-8). They were in neighborhoods that connected to each other without crossing any major or minor arterial roads, so by suburban standards, they were really close. |
Anonymous
That's Sir Duke to you. |
Anonymous
Yeah, I'm sure the decisions have already been made. Though Hardy MS seems too small to be a HS. The space is just too small. But I agree, there needs to be a new Western HS. I wish they'd just had the foresight for the Duke Ellington site. But then again, DCPS isn't made up of the best and brightest... I think the bigger issue is kids who walk to school will now be driven (Glover Park to Foxhall can be 2 mi+, due to the lack of east-west connections). There is going to be such a mess. Most of these students will be closer to Hyde (which honestly makes much more sense). |