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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please explain why the Garnett-Patterson site was never considered for a Shaw Middle School?

It’s in Shaw.  Just a few blocks north of New Banneker.  Why wasn’t it considered?[/quote]

It was considered, just not chosen. There is a middle school already with plenty of capacity for the feeder schools--no need to build a new building. Some people don't like that it's co-located with a high school (though some of them seemed totally fine with co-locating with Banneker, undermining that argument). Some said it was too far away (but it really is not far for a middle schooler and many would travel even further to school if they moved or did charters). Some felt the Cardozo principal was uninterested in middle school (which seems legit but the solution then is getting a middle school principal and not building a new middle school). And some didn't like that the Cardozo test scores are low, but there's no reason to think that a new building would change that. [/quote]

Come on this argument is a dead horse.  It’s been pushed over and run over 3 dozen times.

The FASTEST way to improve a school is to make a new one when there are feeders that are improving.  Period.  I know people want Cardozo middle to improve.  Great.  But there’s a chicken and egg problem.

The way you MOVE FORWARD from the chicken and egg problem is to create a new school.  Like almost all Shaw parents, white and non-white, wealthy and non-wealthy, have been calling for.

Every time you say “Just improve Cardozo!!” you’re basically saying “throw away all the improvements at Garrison and other elementaries while we wait a decade or two for Cardozo to get better.”  That’s not a good solution.  Elementary parents at Garrison need a new middle school option SOON.

Ps Garnet-Patterson was not considered in any real way.  Why wasn’t it presented as another option in the Shaw Middle/Banneker site discussion?[/quote]

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