Why are HRCS so popular? Test scores stink.

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Anonymous wrote:All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge.

What high school are you zoned for?

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^^ To Brookland poster, there were only 5186 participants in the PK3 lottery city-wide last year.

So perception isn't reality.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge.

What high school are you zoned for?

Coolidge.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ To Brookland poster, there were only 5186 participants in the PK3 lottery city-wide last year.

So perception isn't reality.

No. I think it was an exaggeration to make a point.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ To Brookland poster, there were only 5186 participants in the PK3 lottery city-wide last year.

So perception isn't reality.

No. I think it was an exaggeration to make a point.

Let's be friends.

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Anonymous wrote:+1 DCPS is foundering and needs to step up to the plate. It should not be the responsibility of small charter schools like CMI, ITS, or 2 rivers who everyone is crucifying because they can't handle a load (that wasn't their load in the first place). Great that there are schools like Latin, DCI, and BASIS, but DCPS needs to step up to the plate.

+2. But I heard Macfarland is supposed to be good, so maybe DCPS is stepping up to the plate. Anyone know about this option and whether it's open to non-IB students?

Eastern HS on the Hill is an IB school. That was an enormous investment! It takes 3 years and lots of $$ to get IB status, and yet the Hill (the higher SES families, not the section 8 housing) has not embraced it, any more than Jefferson or Elliot-Hine or even Stuart Hobson has been embraced.

Brookland Middle is a lovely building. Has it succeeded in attracting the higher SES neighborhood children? Those whose families are informed and have options? No, no it has not. Charters continue to thrive in Brookland because they offer more than DCPS is willing or able to provide.

If you've lived in DC long enough to have a cup of coffee, you know that DCPS's latest favorite way to waste money is $150million on a school with 400 students. AKA: Roosevelt HS.

This being DC, there's no problem too big for us to pillage the taxpayers in order to flush their money for turds.

Sure. Get excited about MacFarland! Maybe this roll of the dice will come out wonderfully?

In the meantime, the smart back-up plan is charter or private or suburbs.

I'm curious. What do you expect DCPS to do if people don't support the school. Latin, Basis, Deal,and Hardy cannot handle all the MS students in DC. People keep including DCI in the equation and that school has yet to prove it should be lumped in with the other three. Do you think DCPS should not have decent options and opportunities for the students who choose to stay close to home, or cannot lottery into Deal, Basis, Latin, and Hardy? What is DCPS not providing that you think Latin and Basis are providing?

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Anonymous wrote:All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge.

Well damn, have you been inside Coolidge? I would not send my child to that roach and rat infested place either. That's the purpose for renovating the school. Do you want the building to sit empty, is that your choice.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge.

What high school are you zoned for?

Coolidge.

So you will send your kid to a school other than Coolidge. What would you have the city do with Coolidge, tear it down for condos?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge.

Well damn, have you been inside Coolidge? I would not send my child to that roach and rat infested place either. That's the purpose for renovating the school. Do you want the building to sit empty, is that your choice.

Yes I've been inside Coolidge and it's awful. I'd like to see DCPS sell it off completely, or do a long-term (20-year) lease to a charter school which would have to come up with the money for a renovation.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge.

What high school are you zoned for?

Coolidge.

So you will send your kid to a school other than Coolidge. What would you have the city do with Coolidge, tear it down for condos?

I have 2 kids, age 15 and 12. Both in charters now. Younger may apply to a DCPS application school.

Tear down for condos or long-term lease (20 year) to a charter school. Charter school would have to pay the cost of renovation.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge.

Well damn, have you been inside Coolidge? I would not send my child to that roach and rat infested place either. That's the purpose for renovating the school. Do you want the building to sit empty, is that your choice.

Yes I've been inside Coolidge and it's awful. I'd like to see DCPS sell it off completely, or do a long-term (20-year) lease to a charter school which would have to come up with the money for a renovation.

The city has increased its population by 100k in the last ten years. I don't think the city should keep giving away their schools. It will cost more to buy the buildings and land back in the future to educate these upcoming children. And no, the charter schools cannot educate them all. Moreover, I don't want DC public school education to become like New Orleans where the only option is a charter school.

As for a 20year lease to a charter, I don't think that is economically feasible to a charter school. The charter would have to renovate the building for millions of dollars, but is only entitled to its use for 20 years. The city has already given KIPP and Friendship charters these sweet heart deals, but with much longer leases. Basically, the city will never gain those properties back.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge.

What high school are you zoned for?

Coolidge.

So you will send your kid to a school other than Coolidge. What would you have the city do with Coolidge, tear it down for condos?

I have 2 kids, age 15 and 12. Both in charters now. Younger may apply to a DCPS application school.

Tear down for condos or long-term lease (20 year) to a charter school. Charter school would have to pay the cost of renovation.

Tear down the school for condos and the citizens lose access to the school's attached track, baseball, soccer, and football field. You must be a Boswer supporter. Let's give the city away to the developers at the expense of green space.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge.

What high school are you zoned for?

Coolidge.

So you will send your kid to a school other than Coolidge. What would you have the city do with Coolidge, tear it down for condos?

I have 2 kids, age 15 and 12. Both in charters now. Younger may apply to a DCPS application school.

Tear down for condos or long-term lease (20 year) to a charter school. Charter school would have to pay the cost of renovation.

Tear down the school for condos and the citizens lose access to the school's attached track, baseball, soccer, and football field. You must be a Boswer supporter. Let's give the city away to the developers at the expense of green space.

Then replace with single family homes, not condos. The only thing that would be "lost" is the football field and track, which are locked and unavailable to residents most of the time. The rest of the fields are DPR-owned and managed and wouldn't be affected.

More housing helps the neighborhood by creating demand for the businesses that are already there. There's also good environmental policy to build near transit.

I've owned a home in Takoma for 16 years now. Renovating Coolidge as yet another comprehensive high school is not needed now. If the demographers think it may be needed in 15-20 years, then lease it to a charter and let them renovate it. If and when DCPS needs the space they can take it back over.

But the renovate it and they will come strategy is not working.

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Until DCBrings back legitimate test in/tracking or gifted classes starting in 3rd grade, parents who have option will continue to seek charter schools. Even if the test scores stink, most charter schools don't have the behavioral problems at a lot of DCPS. We already seeing major behavioral issues at kids PK4 class. Way beyond the norm but after witnessing the behavior of parents it's no shock. Kid is destined to be in the system at some point. Son yeah see selecting at charter school would at lease lesson some of that issue.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge.

Well damn, have you been inside Coolidge? I would not send my child to that roach and rat infested place either. That's the purpose for renovating the school. Do you want the building to sit empty, is that your choice.

Yes I've been inside Coolidge and it's awful. I'd like to see DCPS sell it off completely, or do a long-term (20-year) lease to a charter school which would have to come up with the money for a renovation.

The city has increased its population by 100k in the last ten years. I don't think the city should keep giving away their schools. It will cost more to buy the buildings and land back in the future to educate these upcoming children. And no, the charter schools cannot educate them all. Moreover, I don't want DC public school education to become like New Orleans where the only option is a charter school.

As for a 20year lease to a charter, I don't think that is economically feasible to a charter school. The charter would have to renovate the building for millions of dollars, but is only entitled to its use for 20 years. The city has already given KIPP and Friendship charters these sweet heart deals, but with much longer leases. Basically, the city will never gain those properties back.

Washington Latin has a 20-year lease on its building, as does Cap City. That's the only term DCPS will give anymore. A few years back they sold buildings outright but now it's all leases.