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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charters are not killing Garrison. DCPS is. DCPS wanted (I would argue WANTS) to close the school. The neighborhood rallied to try to stop the closure and DCPS made a whole slew of promises re: academic programming, modernization, construction, etc. to improve the facilities and academics at Garrison. This was about 5 years ago.

Not only has DCPS not followed through, but it looks to me (yes, a charter parent) like DCPS is doing everything they can to bleed the well of neighborhood goodwill toward Garrison dry so that they can do something big with the land. Garrison parents and administration are doing great things with the resources they have, but it's not enough.

Garrison has a high special needs population. It has been the receiving school for students from elsewhere in the city whose schools have closed. I hope to be proven wrong, but at this point, I firmly believe that DCPS does not want Garrison to succeed or to become a neighborhood school.[/quote]

I live in the neighborhood and totally agree. It's hard for neighbors to get behind a school when the city seems to to undercut it at every turn. The only thing the city has done to help the school is to give it a good principal but I am always nervous he will leave. I really hope I am wrong and the city invests in and renovates Garrison, even though my kids are at a charter.[/quote]

Exactly.  We are zoned for Garrison but go to a charter and remember the promises about renovation, etc from 5 yrs ago when my kid started prek4.  So happy we chose a charter instead of believing DCPS and taking s chance on Garrison - everything DCPS promised never happened.  Garrison looks worse than ever.

DCPS wants to board it up and probably sell the land to a developer for more condos in all likelihood.[/quote]

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