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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Long-term, isn't there supposed to be a new Shaw MS anyway???[/quote]

What would be your justification for adding a new middle school when Cardozo is under-enrolled?  The enrollment capacity is 1070, and there are plus/minus 780 kids.  If you want to lobby DC to open Shaw MS, you'll have to have a reason for them to do so.[/quote]

There isn't an enrollment justification right now.  The justification would be that it's a chance to go back to the drawing board and[b] create a middle school that is appealing to high-income parents[/b].  If that happened, the feeder schools would attract more students, and then the enrollment would grow to fill the school.[/quote]

Look at Brookland. They built a fancy new school and gave it a principal with experience catering to high-income people. And it still didn't attract them. Why would you think DCPS would want to try again in Shaw--and if they did, why wouldn't you expect parents would be saying all the same things they say now about Brookland Middle?

Most rich parents want to send their kids to school with other rich kids. But in DCPS, 4 out of 5 middle schoolers are poor. So DCPS can't just magically make a school be full of rich kids to satisfy rich parents, and they have no desire to do so anyway.[/quote]

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