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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP nailed it. What would a Shaw middle school offer to make it different from Cardozo? You need a critical mass of high achieving students to turn a middle school around.[/quote]

Shaw MS would have a different group of feeder schools than Cardozo that potentially do in fact have a critical mass of high achieving students.  Right now this cluster of schools is divided for the temporary feeder system with two of the schools going to SWW.[/quote]

Solving this does not require opening Shaw MS. Just send the SWW middle schoolers (SWW, Ross, and Thomson) to Cardozo along with Cleveland, Seaton, and Garrison. There's room, and it would allow more room at SWW for elementary students (including special ed classrooms and more PK, both of which are in huge demand). 
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The problem is that they won't send their kids there. The issue with Cadozo MS is that it's connected to a very low performing high school with a history of behavioral problems. It's scary for parents to think about sending their 10 year olds to that kind of environment, regardless of how separate the MS is from the HS. The appeal of a Shaw MS would that it would be a stand-alone, brand new MS. Parents would be more likely to take a chance on a new school than one with a history of low performance. I say this as someone without any kids, without a real stake in the issue, but as someone who had spent time in Cardozo HS. [/quote]

In addition to this, there is the obvious inconvenience that Cardozo is NOT IN SHAW. it's not walkable to the vast majority of kids who go to the Shaw feeder schools; the Shaw Middle School site is just a couple blocks from Seaton, Garrison and Cleveland, and just more tha half a mile from Ross and Thomson. That is the issue here.[/quote]

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