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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS really really needs to stop building and renovating middle schools and high schools to the tune of tens of millions of dollars without setting aside the programming monies for teachers for advanced classes, supported by a policy decision in favor of a return to academic tracking at the MS level.  They waste hundreds of millions of dollars on this idiocy,and it's criminal and deeply short-sighted.  In swathes of the city, they're running short of kids who need the remedial MS education provided in fancy buildings.  Brookland is teeming with high SES kids whose families won't touch Brookland MS, and for very good reason.  These parents asked for honors classes years ago, and got none.  Enough already.  Vote out city council members who won't address the madness, the waste, the grim myopia.  [/quote]

This.  And the money that's going to be flushed down Coolidge is absolutely criminal.[/quote]

I teach at one of the education campuses that's going to be feeding into Coolidge, and it's criminal that's it's taken so long to address overpopulation in the Brightwood/Takoma/Manor Park area. We have classes meeting in the library, floating specials teachers, two P.E. classes to the gym at once, four lunch periods, and eight trailer classrooms. Interventionists and specials teachers meet at tables set up in the hallway. The parking lots are overflowing, meaning teachers have to use street parking and get ticketed or towed on a regular basis. It's amazing to me what high-income white parents think overcrowding should be addressed at their child's school, but ignored when it affects low-income black and brown kids.

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