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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS should close every chronically underenrolled school, full stop. Baillou should have been closed, not renovated. Or, they should have merged another high school into Baillou. Renovating a school hoping more than 200 kids show up is a massive waste of money. [/quote]

Nobody cares what you think because you can't even spell it right.

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For those who don’t know, baillou has a 500 enrollment, of whom 94% are chronically truant. 200 students on a given day is not an exaggeration. [/quote]

Ballou. Not Baillou. Ballou. Get it right before you start spewing your opinions.[/quote]

Bulloo probably should have been closed and merged with Anacostia over a decade ago (enrollment <300).

It’s a fair question to ask why they’re spending hundreds of millions on schools that have less than 100 kids show up in a given day. That’s a misallocation of resources.[/quote]

Now you are just being obnoxious.

Ballou stays open because DCPS provides a by right high school within a certain distance of every address in the city. Merging with Anacostia would not achieve that. [/quote]

This. I know a lot of DCUM folks don’t know much about these neighborhoods or geography at all in the east side of the city, but these two high school boundaries cover a lot of area and are not that close to each other. Not to mention they way over did the ‘close that school’ thing 20 years ago ago so we are stuck with tons of converted condo buildings blocks away from overcrowded schools. School population has increased dramatically since the 90s and early 2000s, not intelligent long-term planning to close schools today that are the only public school in a neighborhood.

If you actually lake time to research the topic, you would see that the city is trying to bring different programs (CTE etc) to different schools, in hopes of getting kids options without making them travel across the city[/quote]

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