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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a new middle school charter or two or nothing.  DCPS just isn't going to run with the ball.[/quote]

I agree.  The middle schools have been configured to ensure that none will become neighborhood Hill schools.  I could same the same for Watkins.  The salvation is apparently/unfortunately charters schools.  Someone mentioned [b]International/National Graduate University[/b] as a possibility.  That place is currently defunct.  Maybe a charter school could finance the acquisition; there are companies that provide financing for charters.  IGU would be an outstanding campus for a charter middle school, and right next to Watkins.  How convenient!

Maybe the top floor of Watkins could serve as a magnet middle school - test in. Or make an ES French immersion there. Do something different!  Then you could have three classes (versus 5) per grade in the Watkins ES that would actually make the place a neighborhood IB school.  If Watkins ES doesn't shrink, it'll never be a neighborhood school.  IB Ludlow-Taylor people will abandon Watkins, leaving it even less of a Hill school (which it just isn't at all now anyhow).

Why not have a school that actually serves the neighborhood and which the neighborhood embraces?

So called high SES families taking their tax money and moving to the 'burbs doesn't help anyone, unless you like vacant buildings and not to hear kids playing.  On my street, there aren't any more kids playing.  There were, until they got to ES.  Thanks DCPS  :(

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