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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope, it will be fine. If the current crop of outraged parents leave, H-A will attract many very engaged new families (OOB and IB) eager to partake of an upgraded, appealing school environment.[/quote]

So, after two years, H-A will attract new IB families that currently opt not to send their kids to H-A? These families will be attracted to the school because it will now posses a horrendously ugly new building and a mutant gym in a space that is now occupied by a very well-utilized kickball court, jungle gym, swings, and a basketball court? Surely, you can't be serious.

And this, of course, assumes that the quality of education at H-A holds throughout the swing. Given what the cross-town swings will likely do to enrollment, parental engagement, commute times, and the other myriad factors that factor into how well schools perform, that's a herculean assumption.

[quote=Anonymous]You may find your other options not much more attractive than two years of a not unreasonable commute for a fantastic neighborhood school thereafter. You might even grow fond of Meyer in the meantime. [/quote]

Is this DME Niles that I'm talking to? H-A will be a "fantastic neighborhood school thereafter" because - and I realize I'm not repeating myself - it will thereafter possess a horrendously ugly new building and a mutant gym in a space that is now occupied by a well-utilized kickball court, jungle gym, swings, and a basketball court? Surely, you can't be serious.[/quote]

No, not Niles, I have never met her. I'm an IB parent who has probably experienced a lot more DCPS craziness than you so my experience is different. I doubt seriously you will be seeing the mass IB exodus you warn so ominously about because the alternatives just aren't very attractive/affordable/feasible (tried to enroll your kid in a private school lately?). In two years there will be new IB families in Georgetown, even if some leave due to the swing to Meyer. H-A anyway is and will remain majority OOB so DCPS is not wildly concerned about the entitlement mentality of some IB parents - and that unfortunately is what it looks like when you guys continue to kvetch about how badly you have been treated. No one said working with DCPS would be easy and I assure you it probably never will be, even when things appear to be going well. But this is the stark reality of public school in DC. At least you are getting upgrades, not cutbacks. What you see as an ugly new building represents what many families lobbied for and dreamed about for years: a real gym, a gathering and theater space, a real cafeteria. A school this size needs those things but space and funds are tight. I think you and others who are so unhappy about the Meyer swing need to make your voices heard loud and clear, and not just dwell on your unhappiness that you weren't informed, not enlightened, given no time to decide, etc. That is just petulance at this stage. Tell Miles know that you would rather keep the status quo than go forward with the project. DCPS will certainly be able to use the funds elsewhere. But if you can't pull that off, you need to make the best of it, or leave. [/quote]

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