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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]

The solution to this, btw, is busing but that proposal is DOA.[/quote]

With traffic the way it already is please don’t suggest more buses on the road![/quote]

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