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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]poor kids. I hope they're able to find good places to go for next year. [/quote]

Sorry for the students, but seems an appropriate closure "DC PCSB did not see evidence that all students are held to high academic standards and attendance was consistently poor. The level of rigor in many classrooms was low and students were inconsistently held accountable for school-wide expectations such as tardiness, use of cell phones in classrooms or removal of their jackets. Behavior in the halls was not entirely appropriate. While many teachers stood in their doorways during transitions there are long stretches of hallway with no classrooms and little monitoring. Some students in the hall were on phones, yelling profanity, play fighting and wandering around extremely tardy with no apparent consequence or tracking system."
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this. Why would anyone want to save this school? Its a joke and those kids would be better off at their week IB schools honestly.[/quote]

When was the last time you were in a high school? The same could be said of most of them.

The school was actually performing better than its peers; it has a mostly at-risk population. Had they not screwed up the money they were headed toward a charter renewal.[/quote]

I wonder though. If you look at the enrollment figures, it was tapering off. Only 32 9th graders this year, 52 in the two years above but 74 seniors. I don't know why it was dropping, but they couldn't have held it together. [/quote]

I agree. I think other charter schools with more attractive moved close to them, and they weren't able to compete.

But hallway behavior isn't really a reason to close a school. Financial mismanagement clearly is. [/quote]

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