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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the barriers I see to a MS at Shaw being successful is, with the exception of Banneker, the lack of an acceptable high school.  Believe me, by the time your kids get to MS you are already thinking about high school.  [/quote]

Yep. And a new Banneker in Shaw is a better carrot for me (a Shaw parent) to stay in the neighborhood as my kids age than a theoretical new Shaw Middle.[/quote]

Who is to say that your kid will even get into Banneker? It's not a neighborhood by-right school.[/quote]

NP.  This is the problem. Mid-city parents like myself don't have an acceptable middle or high school option, and the feeder schools suffer.  The decision to move Banneker forecloses any chance of moving the middle school from Cardozo and creating a decent in-bound option for neighborhood families. Granted, we don't know how a new Shaw middle school would have fared, but now we know we are stuck with Cardozo as our in-bound option.  No thanks.[/quote]

One of my kids would get into any of the test in high school, (please don't critique my confidence in that), I live in Logan Circle so making Banneker more modern, and closer to me, does make it more of a possibility, but where do I go in the meantime?  Francis Stephens is available for a while as my middle school, but this was supposed to be temporary.

So I agree with you! [/quote]

The entire city outside of the Wilson feeders are in the same boat.[/quote]

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