Grosso comes out against a stand alone middle school for Shaw

[Anonymous]

In a pretty good article from Perry Stein

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/banneker-and-shaw-was-the-fight-really-about-gentrification/2019/06/10/22713afe-831f-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.html

[Anonymous]

I like the Grosso quote. Why really does the neighborhood get to say "NAH" to Cardozo?

Now just to muddle the message I would say this: I don't want a 6-12 campus for my kids. It's about high schoolers mixing with middle schoolers and the problems that adolescents have with each other. That doesn't seem like it was much of the discussion. My neighborhood schools are adjacent - Roosevelt and MacFarland - but the separation is good enough for me. Cardozo should be able to show at least as much ability to keep the grade echelons separate if they want parents to get excited about their 11 year olds going there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the Grosso quote. Why really does the neighborhood get to say "NAH" to Cardozo?

Now just to muddle the message I would say this: I don't want a 6-12 campus for my kids. It's about high schoolers mixing with middle schoolers and the problems that adolescents have with each other. That doesn't seem like it was much of the discussion. My neighborhood schools are adjacent - Roosevelt and MacFarland - but the separation is good enough for me. Cardozo should be able to show at least as much ability to keep the grade echelons separate if they want parents to get excited about their 11 year olds going there.

Parents say NAH because DCPS is saying NAH to improving Cardozo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the Grosso quote. Why really does the neighborhood get to say "NAH" to Cardozo?

Now just to muddle the message I would say this: I don't want a 6-12 campus for my kids. It's about high schoolers mixing with middle schoolers and the problems that adolescents have with each other. That doesn't seem like it was much of the discussion. My neighborhood schools are adjacent - Roosevelt and MacFarland - but the separation is good enough for me. Cardozo should be able to show at least as much ability to keep the grade echelons separate if they want parents to get excited about their 11 year olds going there.

In same building -- Coolidge/Wells, McKinley Tech/McKinley Middle -- probably others.

Do you know that Cardozo doesn't keep then separate physically? A separately principal could help (Coolidge/Wells have that). McKinley shares.

[Anonymous]

Good for Grosso for asking out loud why Shaw parents don't put in effort at Cardozo. He's come to his senses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a pretty good article from Perry Stein

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/banneker-and-shaw-was-the-fight-really-about-gentrification/2019/06/10/22713afe-831f-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.html

I hope we can all agree that this is an obvious joke:

"But hope for a stand-alone Shaw middle school is not entirely lost. The D.C. Council also passed a measure designating Banneker’s current campus as the site of a future middle school for Shaw, although significant funding has not been attached to the plan."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good for Grosso for asking out loud why Shaw parents don't put in effort at Cardozo. He's come to his senses.

How does everyone know they aren’t? Some are. That doesn’t mean the current situation at Cardozo is fixable. DCPS has been asking the school to do a million thing for years. Splitting the middle school out of the high school is the most obvious solution. Cardozo EC is the *only* DCPS education campus that is both 6-12 and by-right for middle and high school. It’s not working, and that’s not the fault of the staff or students there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for Grosso for asking out loud why Shaw parents don't put in effort at Cardozo. He's come to his senses.

How does everyone know they aren’t? Some are. That doesn’t mean the current situation at Cardozo is fixable. DCPS has been asking the school to do a million thing for years. Splitting the middle school out of the high school is the most obvious solution. Cardozo EC is the *only* DCPS education campus that is both 6-12 and by-right for middle and high school. It’s not working, and that’s not the fault of the staff or students there.

Shaw parents are already working to improve Cardozo and Grosso appears to be unaware of it. The active parents' kids are too young to enroll. But DCPS and Grosso need to acknowledge that their neglect of Cardozo over many years makes it harder and is itself a factor in parents not wanting to enroll.

[Anonymous]

Grosso finally found his balls. I’m impressed! There are not enough kids in Shaw for a stand-alone middle school. I’m just sad that Banneker got screwed in the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grosso finally found his balls. I’m impressed! There are not enough kids in Shaw for a stand-alone middle school. I’m just sad that Banneker got screwed in the process.

Yeah, they got someone else's building, and the big budget to renovate it, but some folks realized what was going on and dared to defend their own interests.

So so so unfair for poor Banneker families.

[Anonymous]

Also Elissa Silverman is the absolute worst. Completely tone deaf, pro gentrification and blind to the problems of the majority of her constituents.

[Anonymous]

There's a conspiracy theory that there is a desire for Cardozo to fail so that the property can be used for development.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grosso finally found his balls. I’m impressed! There are not enough kids in Shaw for a stand-alone middle school. I’m just sad that Banneker got screwed in the process.

Yeah, they got someone else's building, and the big budget to renovate it, but some folks realized what was going on and dared to defend their own interests.

So so so unfair for poor Banneker families.

Banneker got everything they were promised and more. They were called out for shabby treatment of the low-income, at-risk, POC students who attend Cardozo Middle, and for their possibly illegal failure to accomodate special needs students. If being called out for your bad treatment of those less fortunate is your idea of getting "screwed" that says a lot. There were very, very ugly things said by Banneker supporters.

[Anonymous]

I have been hearing the drumbeat of non-African American families considering Banneker in recent years, now that the privates are full and ludicrously expensive and SWW plays its interview admissions games. With a new building and relatively better/safer/easier-to-access location, Banneker may become more diverse. This will be fun to watch - glad my kids are out of this game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grosso finally found his balls. I’m impressed! There are not enough kids in Shaw for a stand-alone middle school. I’m just sad that Banneker got screwed in the process.

Yeah, they got someone else's building, and the big budget to renovate it, but some folks realized what was going on and dared to defend their own interests.

So so so unfair for poor Banneker families.

Banneker got everything they were promised and more. They were called out for shabby treatment of the low-income, at-risk, POC students who attend Cardozo Middle, and for their possibly illegal failure to accomodate special needs students. If being called out for your bad treatment of those less fortunate is your idea of getting "screwed" that says a lot. There were very, very ugly things said by Banneker supporters.

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