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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 an expanded oyster elementary?  Cardozo isn't happening, for anyone with a choice.  I am more likely to take my chances on McFarland[/quote]

Same on Cardozo. Cute idea about the mini magnet, but DCPS is already hoping to expand Banneker, and that is not the far from the Oyster Adams site, so I cannot imagine putting yet another application high school in that area of the city.

Keeping the middle school as is, but removing its Wilson feeds sounds like a decent start. This would reduce enrollment at Wilson by what? 30? [/quote]

what is Oyster adams became a middle school magnet. Or even better a middle school dual language magnet?  test in for the kids who come up the DCPS feeder system and also through the charter sysyem who may not want DCI.  DC in general is capable of producing some high achieving bilingual english/spanish speaking students.  Kids who ready to tackle all subjects in both languages at grade level or higher in 6th grade.  Is there a magnet like this in the country?[/quote]

DCPS already allows people to apply to Oyster-Adams for middle, but rarely offers any seats. You must get in via lottery and then they test you for Spanish language proficiency.

Before DCI existed and before Adams really got up on its feet it was a common destination for the first few classes of students who finished LAMB.

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