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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no idea what bespoke middle school means.  It currently says Shaw Junior High on the building.  This is such a strange discussion.[/quote]

NP. Bespoke means custom. PP is suggesting that Shaw parents think they have the right to demand exactly what they want without respect to the needs of the entire school system, and ignoring the fact that you have a school waiting for you that everyone assumes is unsatisfactory (Cardozo MS), without ever meeting a single administrator or teacher at that school.
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Are you trying to say that Cardozo Middle is satisfactory?  Good luck.  I do know people who work there, and I know that they have churned through Assistant Principals at an alarming rate.  Ask yourself why so few students attend who are not in the International Academy.  It isn't just DCUM who finds it unsatisfactory.  It's pretty much everyone.[/quote]

And if all of you went there it would almost immediately change. Schools are about the students who attend them. If your 5 yo and all their classmates go, it will be a radically different place. [/quote]

So what?  They won't.  How about DCPS deal with the actual problems?  It needs a permanent leader and the academic and behavior problems of the kids need to be adequately remediated.  For their own sake and not to attract gentrifiers.

Downtown evidently does not give a cr*p about Cardozo Middle.  Until they do, what hope is there?
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+1. It really angers me when people.blame parents for not sending their children to a seriously underperforming school amd say it is because of avoiding minority kids.  The adults who work for DCPS are the problem here.  I don't want my child to be treated the way DCPS treats most of its middle school students.  The end.[/quote]

If that is what you believe, then it doesn't matter whether DCPS creates a Shaw Middle or not.  Creating Shaw Middle isn't going to change "the way DCPS treats most of its middle school students." If, at the end of the day, you will be sending your kids to charter or private, or moving, then you really have no dog in this fight.

I completely understand and am fine with people admitting they prefer the Charter/Private options.  I don't like the implication that the creation of Shaw middle will alleviate all of their fears and they will suddenly go DCPS.  Are you seriously telling me that you would take a school, with zero reputation, zero test scores, zero observations and commit to going there over the Charter/Private/Moving options? Unless you know there is guaranteed to be a strong cohort of children you know your child will "fit in" with, you will not send your kid to that school. Whether it is Shaw or Cardozo doesn't matter.[/quote]

No, doofus.  Nobody is saying it will immediately become income-diverse.  People are saying that there are changes DCPS could make that would result in gradual improvement and better serve the kids who attend.  But they won't.  There is no plan.  Why?[/quote]

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