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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I highly doubt DCPS is going to end the Fillmore program for elementary kids.  As PP pointed out, the elementary schools have no classrooms, materials, or teachers for arts and music in-house.  DCPS is not going to spend millions of dollars renovating, adding buildings, and funding those schools when its priority is now EOTP.  DCPS gets by on the cheap with Fillmore; last year it screwed the kids by cutting Fillmore funds and firing teachers, so Fillmore is run on a shoestring budget right now.  There i no other alternative, so it Fillmore will remain the same, unless it is deservedly re-funded.

So, another PP's point that DCPS plans to expand Hardy's middle school population is flimsy speculation.  Hardy's enrollment will more than very likely remain the same.[/quote]

Read between the lines, PP.  DCPS has tried to close Fillmore in the past.  Now DCPS is underfunding it to the point that parents are complaining.

Why would DCPS want to get rid of Fillmore?  Because DCPS wants more space in the Hardy build.

Why does DCPS want more space in the Hardy building?  Because DCPS recognizes how challenging it is to build a functioning middle school from the ground up.  DCPS plans to expand functioning middle schools WOTP.  Deal is already bursting at the seams.  Hardy is next.

The notion that a grass-roots campaign by IB families to "take Hardy back" will result in a majority IB school is preposterous, whether IB is defined strictly or loosely, i.e., feeder kids.  As IB enrollment grows at Hardy, so will true OOB enrollment, i.e., the kind that lotteries in from failing schools.[/quote]

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