DCPS to close Washington Metropolitan
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Anonymous
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-proposes-closing-washington-metropolitan-high-an-alternative-school/2019/11/27/4b949e00-1116-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html
I feel bad for the kids, I hope they find someplace better but I suspect they won't. |
Anonymous
| It looks like it was located in Northeast, while most were having to commute in EOTR. If they're having attendance issues, it doesn't make sense to travel that far. Still, you're right. Hopefully the students find a more appropriate placement. |
Anonymous
It is in Bloomingdale just south of the McMillen sand filtration site, and Children's and WHC. Not very good transit access either. I wonder what happens to the building... Swing space for renovations maybe? |
Anonymous
Yeah maybe. Bunker Hill and Seaton are pretty high on the renovation list. I dunno where JO Wilson and SWS are swinging to. |
Anonymous
| It was chronically under performing, I’m glad they noticed/cared and are doing something. But yes what happens next matters. |
Anonymous
| What are the current swing spaces now? Meyer, Sharpe, what else? I remember HD Cooke swung there before it was a high school. That's probably what they should do, for a while at least. |
Anonymous
| Vultures. Can we at least get these students transferred before you fixate on the property? |
Anonymous
Yes, I'm such an awful person for wanting DCPS to have swing space so that schools can be modernized. The charter real estate profiteers are circling already and if this building is to stay DCPS, there needs to be a plan in place. |
Anonymous
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SWS' swing site is still TBD even though modernization starts fall 2020. It says in the SWS documents from the meeting on Monday that they're working to develop a swing site "in this area of the city" meaning not as far away as Meyer. That site will be used by SWS, then Browne, then JO Wilson in turn. And it will be a large enough site to handle a school the size of JO Wilson (500 kids). And they really don't want to keep using Eliot-Hine space for swing space.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AOG-0Ke8n0monjVg6PoAU9wAegYQjKfP/view So, I'm not saying SWS/Browne/JOWilson will swing to this site (K.C. Lewis, it was called before it became a high school), but it does seem to match and I can't think of a closer option other than the old Emery building. |
Anonymous
Chronically underperforming compared to what? Traditional middle/high schools? Other alternative schools? |
Anonymous
Other alternative schools. And also, the students mostly had extremely long commutes. |
Anonymous
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It’s pretty close to Meyer/Garnet Patterson. Are we trying to put all the swing space in a 1 mile radius?
Think there’s any chance they’d move Bard HS over there? |
Anonymous
No chance on Bard. They are firm on EOTR (as they should be). |
Anonymous
I think Bard wants a bigger site, and they're dead set on having it EOTR. For swing space, seems like they're having to take what they can get. I do think it makes a lot of sense as a swing space if they're serious about modernizing schools. There are so many kids in that area of the city, maybe it would be needed as an elementary school with its own boundary eventually. |
Anonymous
| If they do use it for SWS swing space, it feels a little tacky. They basically closed a low-income kids' school so that they could use the building to give high-income kids a fancy new renovation. |