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[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]

On the contrary, I think it would really help.  Getting an okay middle school would mean that you can then apply to Banneker/SWW/McKinley/Ellington, and it gives a few more chances to lottery into Latin/BASIS, DCI, or a Wilson feeder.  That would mean people don't feel like the have to bail in upper elementary.  Middle school is the weak link in DCPS, not high school.

Seaton and Garrison are doing so well lately.  It saddens me that DCPS won't focus attention on this issue.[/quote]

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