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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ Yes. Entitled.

School boundaries and locations are not fixed. They change.

You have a right to public education. You do not have a right to public education in the facility of your choice [/quote]

We do have a right to public feedback and discussion involving the affected school communities *before* dramatic decisions and major reversals in course are made, no?  Big meetings are held over much much less.  [/quote]

+1000. In addition, the community has been patiently waiting year after year while our elected officials have been telling us Shaw MS will be coming soon.  They knew all along that was not so but kept lying to us.  This was just handled poorly all around and everyone got screwed, the Shaw MS supporters, Banneker supporters, the community.  No one is a winner here folks.[/quote]

I completely agree with this sentiment. However, and this is honest, I wonder what the right course of action is.  What do we as parents and citizens do next?

Do you throw up your hands and give up? Do you accept the decision of Banneker getting the space, and move on to advocate for the next space? Do you focus your energies on reversing the Banneker decision? Do you focus on improving the current Middle school feeder pathway?  Do you move out of DC completely?

We all only have so much energy and time.  And there are multiple choices here for each of us to follow. We can all agree that the decision making process was completely flawed... but what do we do next. And what will have the greatest impact on the most people.

And my problem with these Cardozo Feeder meetings is that, at least from my perspective, everyone is working a different one of these angles.  So if all of our goals are different (even if we all ultimately just want good Middle School options for DC kids), how do we ever make any progress?[/quote]

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