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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like it was located in Northeast, while most were having to commute in EOTR. If they're having attendance issues, it doesn't make sense to travel that far. Still, you're right. Hopefully the students find a more appropriate placement. [/quote]

It is in Bloomingdale just south of the McMillen sand filtration site, and Children's and WHC.  Not very good transit access either.

I wonder what happens to the building... Swing space for renovations maybe?[/quote]

Yeah maybe.  Bunker Hill and Seaton are pretty high on the renovation list.  I dunno where JO Wilson and SWS are swinging to.[/quote]

Great to hear if both these schools are on the top of the list. They are good schools but because they are smaller they get push off to the side a LOT.  That being said I would kind of wonder if they would put trailers up for Bunker Hill. They are right off a bus line and only a few blocks from a couple other bus line that run to Brookland & Ft. Totten, of course as a elementary they have lots of families that walk together with older kids walking on to Brookland after dropping (and picking up) siblings. There are a lot of car riders/drop off/pick as well. But moving all the way over to Bloomingdale would certainly make it unworkable for those walking & on those bus lines. 
No clue how seaton it laid out or what the change would look like for their school.

I do really hope both the schools get the updates they need either way.

I also hope the building stays in DCPS hands for a while at least for such things.  Bloomdale & Brookland certainly don't need more charter / "School Chance".  We need focus on improving the DCPS and charters (once they add a neighborhood preference) already in place.  And those families that felt the need to ship their kids across town at hopes of a better school should also be getting improved local walk-able options. 
But then I am one that hears [b]long time DC residents talk about how neighborhood schools were better before the lottery. [/b]So, I do wonder if DCPS has missed the mark and  lost a lot of investment in community with this lottery/ship them all over town "solution" that has solved nothing. Other than breaking up communities and draging down all dcsp schools... at least according to all the long time neighbors & multi-generation neighbors around me.[/quote]

Perhaps if they are over 70 and mean before desegregation. I’m in my 50s and that’s not true at all from my perspective. 20-plus years ago getting a child out of dcps and into a charter or into an out of boundary spot was a blessing. [/quote]

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