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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If DCPS wants to build or create a MS that will work for these feeders it really needs to start listening to the populations who go there and their leadership.  Are these schools saying Cardozo sounds like a good long term plan?  If you are hearing resistance to that idea then aren’t you setting yourself up for failure...again????  What other options might cost about the same and be better received? It seems to me that DCPS is living in a bubble with its own feedback loop with some misinformed assumptions and now is engaging in CYA.[/quote]

I agree with this.  Even if Shew is opened and functions well, many families will choose other options with a guaranteed path to a decent high school.  We are inbounds for Cardozo, but I don't know of anyone who would send their kids there.   I was hopeful that the families who are sending their kids to Cardozo for MS might be able to help improve the HS; however, I'm not sure there have been any signs of this happening yet.  [/quote]

Yes. So since the gentrifiers in the neighborhood have shown NO commitment to upper grades at these elementaries, much less MS an HS, why should they build an expensive MS. Build a new Banneker, a school you KNOW will fill, and that has been in subpar facilities for a long time.

Banneker is one of the few schools that works in DCPS. And yet most of its students are not coming from one of the MS you design worthy of your children attending. Open your minds. [/quote]

Banneker is under-enrolled now, in the space it currently has. Moving it to the Shaw site will have zero impact on enrollment numbers. And, there's plenty of space at the current location, in fact the Banneker SiT recommended enclosing the tennis courts on the site to expand the building itself - renovation at the Euclid location if fully possible.

Also, Banneker isn't a neighborhood school. We need strong schools from elementary through high school with feeder patterns that make sense. DCPS keeps saying they've got a plan, so let's see it delivered and the promises made to Shaw fulfilled.

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