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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]

Public schools are not restaurants. You cannot close one because people aren't showing up. DCPS is required by law to provide a HS for kids in Ballou's boundary, whether they show up or not. You can't just eliminate seats because if truancy -- if those kids show up for school tomorrow, they need a place to sit.[/quote]

Closing down underperforming/underenrolled schools and reassigning students is a normal function of school districts. Every student needs to be assigned a school, but it doesn't need to be their currently-zoned one. A lot of schools were closed in 2013 for this reason. But it's Anacostia HS that's below 30% of capacity and ~250 enrollment, if a high school were to get closed. [/quote]

Back in mid 2000s, DCPS permanently closed over 30 schools.any were leased to charters, some consolidated (eg parkview and Bruce Monroe), some rebuilt. 
The problem isn’t the buildings, so closing or rebuilding is always DCPS’ blind spot.   The kids who can’t read at Ballou still won’t be any better if you put in JR?  That’s a clientele performance issue. Not teacher and building.  
DCPS thinks they can build their way out of low performance. Dunbar is like 60%capacity. Same for newish Brookland Middle school. Parents follow like minded parents and want a solid performing cohort.  
The empty space at Dunbar might as well be leased to Basis, two schools in one building.   No mixing of academics. [/quote]

I agree about student performance. But I think DCPS should look at school closures primarily as a way of saving money while disrupting as few families as possible. [/quote]

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