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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The only group that has a decent neighborhood HS is the "neighborhood" that is IB for Wilson. The next closest option for creating a good neighborhood school is to create a new WoTP HS and possibly split the Wilson and up-coming surge of high school students into this new HS -- which has been proposed for Western/Ellington site. At that point, you might have locked in WoTP attendence in quality HS and have created some additional OOB seats to take some of the EoTP students.[/quote]

[b]Why would we create a new WOTP HS when the up-coming surge of students is EAST of the park?

Does it really make sense to keep planning OOB seats for that projected growth?[/b][/quote]

Thank you for pointing out the obvious!  That's not sarcasm, btw.  It's ridiculous how that keeps getting lost.  A new HS is NOT necessary WotP.  There are several under-enrolled high schools (read: all of them) EotP, and [i]that[/i] is where the desperate need for a quality program is.  I favor Cardozo for reasons of geography but could be happy with Roosevelt for the clean slate, since it's undergoing renovation right now.  Hell, Coolidge should be considered as well.

Renaming any of them is absurd and insulting, that idea needs to be let go.  Instead, open an academy program inside one of them and pour resources into it.  Those resources need to be more than just the capital investments we can see: labs, theaters, fields, etc.  They need to be programming resources:

[list]commit to offering every single AP class that Wilson has[/list] 
[list]commit to hiring top-quality teaching talent even if it means paying top dollar to poach them from neighboring systems (i.e., MoCo and FFX) [/list]
[list]commit to something special like a guest-lecture series or teaching fellow in residence[/list]

Commit to some elite athletic options: lacrosse, field hockey, crew, or golf.  Most of all commit to a destination school [i]EAST[/i] of the Park, where the actual [i]need[/i] is.[/quote]

So we can conclude that (1) Deal and Wilson are not at capacity.  If that's the case, then what is all the fuss about?  (2 However, if they are at or projected to be over capacity, and you don't want to add capacity west of the Park, then the solution is (a) eliminate feeder rights for OOB students or (b) constrict the boundaries of the IB area for those schools, by pulling in the outermost eastern border.  It makes no sense whatsoever to send kids who live west of Rock Creek a greater distance to attend a school east of the park, when kids who live east of the park would be traveling a greater distance to Wilson than to some other, closer option.

Remember, what started the whole conversation was DME suggestion that Hardy would feed to a new high school to be built west of Rock Creek Park.  Was a misrepresentation?[/quote]

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