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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oyster already feeds to Oyster Adams Middle school in Dupont Circle Kalorama area. So you would want to shift their feeder for high school to Rosevelt, which makes excellent sense to me.

Parents may flip out. [/quote]

Why not feed oyster to McFarland and free up space at Oyster Adams?[/quote]

Well if they have room at McFarland,  I don't know. But Cardozo is way closer, and they could build a decent language program there. Nice campus but hard to divert those going  Wilson to a school that is basically moving kids up each year even though they don't pass. I cannot imagine DCPS even trying to make that proposal go down, even though it makes sense in many ways and more sense than McFarland.

And what would you do with the Oyster Adams building? A mini high school for the neighborhood? [/quote]

A mini magnet?  but a true test in magnet?   or [b]an expanded oyster elementary?[/b]  Cardozo isn't happening, for anyone with a choice.  I am more likely to take my chances on McFarland[/quote]

This. That way the IB families from Oyster who will be sad about losing Adams are countered by the IB families who will be glad to have a better shot at getting in for PK. Also, expanding Oyster means more prepared 5th graders available to enter MacFarland each year. Adding in the Bancroft kids to MacFarland makes for a pretty strong group with rights to the school, and could help keep kids in some of the other bilingual elementaries because their parents will feel better about the feeder pattern and may stop trying to flee to DCI and its feeders.[/quote]

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