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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We plan on staying at Seaton for the long haul. But we are definitely Unclear about what we will do for Middle School. We will cross that bridge when we get there.[/quote]

Is there any effort to improve the middle school?  Cardozo, right?[/quote]

Your best bet would be to try and get Francis-Stevens to stop doing middle school and have their feeders also go to Cardozo. Then Seaton, Garrison, Ross, Cleveland (students who don't choose the dual-language feed to MacFarland), Thomson, and F-S would all go to Cardozo--that's a big enough cohort to allow for differentiation, electives, and extracurriculars (especially with the fact that removing middle school from F-S would allow for the elementary school to offer more classrooms there). It would also create a good synergy where more kids would go on to HS at Cardozo, so they could offer more courses (including APs and interesting electives) and kids who were really advanced in middle school could even bump up to high school classes. If a kid is ready for calculus in 8th grade, having it offered in a different wing of the same building is a big advantage.[/quote]

I don't think Francis-Stevens would be willing to do that.  Why would they trade in what they have for the suckage that is Cardozo?

Playing with feeder patterns will not solve the fundamental underlying problem that the kids' performance is terrible.  Way too many kids are way below grade level, and until DCPS puts some real money into addressing that, nothing will change.  Nobody wants to be one of a few smart kids at a failing school.[/quote]

Francis-Stevens doesn't get to pick. The mayor does. And they could still have all the same students and teachers as they do now, with the addition of Seaton, Garrison, and Cleveland. These schools are performing well, and having a bigger middle school allows for more opportunities for students. Look at how many languages, clubs, sports, and such Deal can offer.[/quote]

I suspect you will have a lot of resistance from parents at Thomson, SWW-FS, and Ross, all of which are strong schools.  Why make them give up on a better option (SWW-FS) for Cardozo, which is occupied by mostly OOB students?  If all the students from the feeder schools went to Cardozo and little to no OOB students enrolled, maybe families would consider it as a MS option.  That won't happen when families keep lotterying out of the feeder schools and Cardozo is chronically underenrolled and with plenty of OOB kids.[/quote]

This.  The Mayor cannot just force it on them.

Why would anyone want to go to Cardozo for middle school as long as it's mostly low-performing kids?  Right now the feeder schools can't even retain high-performing kids through second grade.  Who is going to sit through 3rd-5th only to attend an underperforming middle school?  DCPS needs to intervene academically and pay for the kids at Cardozo to get the help they need, before high-performing students will have any interest in it.[/quote]

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