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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Save Shaw, folks. You've got to let go of the "their lies" thing. The outcome of the boundary review was a policy document. It contained recommendations. Some of the recommendations were implemented. Some were not.

There was never a promise to open a Shaw middle school at the Shaw site, just like there was no promise to reserve at least 10% of seats in each zoned middle school for NEW out of boundary students at 6th grade. Both are recommendations that DCPS did not implement.[/quote]

It isn't that the freestanding middle school was a lie, it is that the process in general has been fraught with chronic lying, just like every other experience I have had with downtown in my many years of DCPS involvement.
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Yeah, the lying (or, more charitably, obfuscation) occurs so frequently over such a long time that it's a feature not a bug of the DCPS bureaucracy.  Going hand in hand with the obfuscation is the incompetence, e.g.:  never having the correct enrollment projections when reliable data is easily available; cutting school budgets without regard for the prior year's FTEs; not accounting for life cycles for computer technology; relatedly, from the outset, not purchasing enough computers/laptops to be used by current numbers of staff and students; also relatedly, purchasing IT technology within any given school from different manufacturers which use different operating systems (!); and of course not enough money for paper, pencils, and such.  Just to name a few examples.[/quote]

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