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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still don't get why anyone thought it was a good idea to locate an elementary school alongside a high school in the same building. Seems like a recipe for trouble, and the knife and possible gun incidents would seem to validate that. And WLA will double in size over the next two years. Are the additional building security measures intended to have more physical separation between the two schools?[/quote]

Lee/WLA aren't the only charter with elementary and high school students in the same building.

Off the top of my head -- Cap City, LAMB / DCI (at Walter Reed), EL Haynes (Pk3-4 and high school share a building; middle school is in a separate space)

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Those are all the same school or feeder. Lamb/DCI are not in same building. Being same school like Haynes is different.[/quote]

LAMB has a wing of DCI’s Walter Reed building.

[b]The issue is supposedly the age disparity of the children being in close proximity.

Or is t really that the WLA students are poor and 98% black and Latino?[/b][/quote]

It's neither.
Schools are not supposed to blend into each other with shared hallways, doors, elevators. Schools and unrelated offices are not supposed to blend into each other either. The hallways should be deemed safe enough that a second-grader should be able to walk over to the bathroom whenever he wants. Lee admin was aware it was a problem, but fixing it was on the schedule a few months down the road. They were not receiving sufficient pressure to fix it sooner until the gun sighting incident.

To lottery-playing prospective families, I guess this thread gives you a snapshot of what our school is like. The reality is that all schools are the same especially DC charter schools.
Administration is great on the one hand, on the other, snow jobs and compromises that aren't in the best interest of student safety do happen.
FTA is great but on the other hand, they can sound like they're carrying the water for the school administration more than looking out for children. We're in a very political city and parent involvement is going to reflect those qualities.
The families are great and we have lots of volunteers with diverse skills and lots of energy who are offering a lot of amazing things to our school, but there is a lot of blind trust of administration, parents not wanting to engage in any critical way like a good fed who doesn't want a ding on their performance review, and parents systematically bringing up race and suggesting that something or anything or everything is racism or bias.

Security issues, while they took too long to be remediated and should have been addressed before moving into the new space, look like they're going to be reasonably taken care of now and we'll be just like any other Elementary School by September. We haven't been, but by the time new families get here, we will be.[/quote]

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