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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is no one else excited about a potential new high school?! [/quote]

No, because they don't share a vision of how great a possible new high school would be. Instead they under-promise because I'm sure they don't want to commit to offering programming as robust as available at Wilson and then have to backtrack. But they are trying to sell families who now have access to Wilson, so you MUST offer them "as good as." Doesn't matter though because after a meeting I attended tonight, it seems clear to me that the plan is to carve 9th grade out of Wilson and have it located at the "high school" building. There won't be a new high school. [/quote]

That's not "the plan," that's one of five different plans they're looking at. I'm not sure it's the one that the document suggests makes the most sense, either, based on pros/cons of each option.[/quote]

I'm basing my belief that they are going the 9th grade academy route on what the DCPS rep said. She explained that they have already talked to Wilson's principal about this idea and she said it would work, that they already essentially have a 9th grade academy. The DCPS speaker also said it would probably be a "shared principal" school (like they had with SWW and Francis Stevens). She just seemed to have more comments about how the 9th grade academy could work and didn't have nearly as much insight about how a brand new HS would look/work/offer. I think they are leaning toward 9th grade academy when you read between the lines and rely solely on the slides. [/quote]

What did she say about how 9th graders would take advanced level classes?[/quote]
The Wilson principal is against offering advanced level classes and has aggressively moved to eliminate them at Wilson. Every year she eliminates more of them. There are many threads on this topic. She likely will use the 9th grade academy as an excuse to eliminate advanced math as she has publicly spoken of her desire to do so.  [/quote]

But if a student shows up in 9th grade having completed Algebra I and geometry in middle school she has to offer Allegra II. [/quote]

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