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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Sounds like a normal organization to me.  I assume you have never worked in one. Or one that is influenced by politics and relationships. Getting on the right side of that is how Save Shaw people could have gotten something more out of this. [/quote]

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