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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Mental exercise: We maintain our current patchwork system.  How many bushels of "school improvement plans" does it take for another middle school to equalize Deal to the point where it would acceptable to adjust Deal's boundaries? At the rate BASIS, Latin, DCI, KIPP, etc. are growing, will there even be any high or mid SES students left by then? Doubtful. So all he is saying is "never" in a fancy way.

The proposed plan obviously has huge gaps, but the clean slate of 1 to 4 new middle schools offers a [i]chance[/i] for DCPS to do something right from the start. Why not start now?[/quote]

None of the 4 proposed middle schools has any sort of plan to open it. None has a budget. DCPS has not started focusing on any of them. Those middle schools are completely aspirational. They are almost a charade, an illusion to fool people. How can you have confidence that any of those middle schools will become a reality? There is really no rational basis to believe that the proposed schools will have any impact on overcrowding at Deal because there is no rational basis at this point to believe those schools will ever exist. It takes more than a single document to build a school.

Catania is saying that until you have the necessary components to turn an idea into reality, you shouldn't take steps that do nothing but undermine confidence in the school system.

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