Garrison Renovation - when will it start?

[Anonymous]

I thought the first half of the renovation was supposed to start this summer but haven't seen any work yet. Does anyone know what the schedule is and is there a website with up to date information?

[Anonymous]

did the funds ever come through?

[Anonymous]

I read somewhere that the priority of the new mayor is to renovate schools on the other side of town first and many of the renovations for NW schools have been pushed back (again!)

[Anonymous]

Bummed that this school has such awful scores. It's our inbound, which given the lottery system, means we'll probably be going private when the time comes. Or we'll move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bummed that this school has such awful scores. It's our inbound, which given the lottery system, means we'll probably be going private when the time comes. Or we'll move.

Me too. The neighboring fields are now trapped in a historic Civil War dispute; comprehensive modernization is nowhere in sight; and many people from Wards 6, 2, 1 and even 4 have something to say about the school but aren't advocating changes that will matter to the children of neighbors.

Most of all, Cardozo HS remains a dead weight tied to Garrison.

This is a tough one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the first half of the renovation was supposed to start this summer but haven't seen any work yet. Does anyone know what the schedule is and is there a website with up to date information?

Oh honey. It is so sad to see a new set of suckers each year believing this crap.

[Anonymous]

This school should have been closed. Charters will never allow these neighbors to have neighborhood schools, that much is clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the first half of the renovation was supposed to start this summer but haven't seen any work yet. Does anyone know what the schedule is and is there a website with up to date information?

Oh honey. It is so sad to see a new set of suckers each year believing this crap.

+1

I'm in my 8th year of seeing new sets of families ask this question. And every year more and more families are angry about failed promises from DC government. They hate mid-city...the building will fall down around your children before they renovate this building. Move on, nothing to see here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This school should have been closed. Charters will never allow these neighbors to have neighborhood schools, that much is clear.

This has NOTHING to do with charter schools. Talk to your DCPS Chancelor and school modernization teams who have been making these decisions. Nothing to do with DCPCS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This school should have been closed. Charters will never allow these neighbors to have neighborhood schools, that much is clear.

This is an idiotic comment. I'm not sure what "these neighborhoods" mean, but the townhomes in the Garrison district are between $1 and $2 million (typically in the high $1s). And look at Ross next door -- a thriving school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This school should have been closed. Charters will never allow these neighbors to have neighborhood schools, that much is clear.

This is an idiotic comment. I'm not sure what "these neighborhoods" mean, but the townhomes in the Garrison district are between $1 and $2 million (typically in the high $1s). And look at Ross next door -- a thriving school.

Agreed. IB for Garrison and I don't send my child there because it's falling apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This school should have been closed. Charters will never allow these neighbors to have neighborhood schools, that much is clear.

This is an idiotic comment. I'm not sure what "these neighborhoods" mean, but the townhomes in the Garrison district are between $1 and $2 million (typically in the high $1s). And look at Ross next door -- a thriving school.

Here's some logic:

Most parents and guardians in Ward 1 send their children to charters. It's true if you look at enrollment percentages.

Ward 1 neighbors Ward 2. A map reveals this to also be true.

Most of the parents and guardians in Ward 1 share adjacent blame for the struggling Ward 2 Garrison. A leap, I know.

Ward 2 has one charter (BASIS DC) and might be even more to blame, given its presence in Ward 2 (the very same ward as Garrison's and on the very same yellow and green lines).

Ward 5 and 6 must also take some blame since they are nearby Garrison too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This school should have been closed. Charters will never allow these neighbors to have neighborhood schools, that much is clear.

This is an idiotic comment. I'm not sure what "these neighborhoods" mean, but the townhomes in the Garrison district are between $1 and $2 million (typically in the high $1s). And look at Ross next door -- a thriving school.

Here's some logic:

Most parents and guardians in Ward 1 send their children to charters. It's true if you look at enrollment percentages.

Ward 1 neighbors Ward 2. A map reveals this to also be true.

Most of the parents and guardians in Ward 1 share adjacent blame for the struggling Ward 2 Garrison. A leap, I know.

Ward 2 has one charter (BASIS DC) and might be even more to blame, given its presence in Ward 2 (the very same ward as Garrison's and on the very same yellow and green lines).

Ward 5 and 6 must also take some blame since they are nearby Garrison too.

And? You make no point at all.

[Anonymous]

Charters are not killing Garrison. DCPS is. DCPS wanted (I would argue WANTS) to close the school. The neighborhood rallied to try to stop the closure and DCPS made a whole slew of promises re: academic programming, modernization, construction, etc. to improve the facilities and academics at Garrison. This was about 5 years ago.

Not only has DCPS not followed through, but it looks to me (yes, a charter parent) like DCPS is doing everything they can to bleed the well of neighborhood goodwill toward Garrison dry so that they can do something big with the land. Garrison parents and administration are doing great things with the resources they have, but it's not enough.

Garrison has a high special needs population. It has been the receiving school for students from elsewhere in the city whose schools have closed. I hope to be proven wrong, but at this point, I firmly believe that DCPS does not want Garrison to succeed or to become a neighborhood school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charters are not killing Garrison. DCPS is. DCPS wanted (I would argue WANTS) to close the school. The neighborhood rallied to try to stop the closure and DCPS made a whole slew of promises re: academic programming, modernization, construction, etc. to improve the facilities and academics at Garrison. This was about 5 years ago.

Not only has DCPS not followed through, but it looks to me (yes, a charter parent) like DCPS is doing everything they can to bleed the well of neighborhood goodwill toward Garrison dry so that they can do something big with the land. Garrison parents and administration are doing great things with the resources they have, but it's not enough.

Garrison has a high special needs population. It has been the receiving school for students from elsewhere in the city whose schools have closed. I hope to be proven wrong, but at this point, I firmly believe that DCPS does not want Garrison to succeed or to become a neighborhood school.

I completely agree. They could not demonstrate this more obviously over and over again. They also promised a middle school, but that isn't happening either. If they dare try to sell the land to developer though, I hope they are ready for the neighborhood to sue.