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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone clarify years here? Or post any links or text of emails where we can learn more?

We are currently a Tubman family. As a previous poster noted, we have the swing space at Banneker for the next two years (24-25 and 25-26). Someone earlier up thread said the first cohort of kids at Euclid Middle School would be current first graders, but someone else said it was right after Tubman’s time there, which would be 26-27, but current 1st graders will only be on 4th grade then. Is another school going to swing there in between?

Additional question - while it’s not well publicized, the kids at Tubman who feed into CHEC for middle school (and presumably the other elementaries that feed into CHEC middle) have the option of Cardozo, without lotterying, if they don’t want Spanish immersion. Will we maintain that right for SWW@FS and the new Euclid Middle School? That’d be game changing for us and great for Tubman, which has been improving a lot recently and is about to have brand new building, too.

Honestly, the brief stopover at SWW@FS is genius. The problem with Euclid was always going to be that first year of parents not wanting to take a risk on an unproven school and continuing to flee for other middle schools as the case is now. But SWW@FS is an established, solid school. People will stay for that, and if you’ve got an established cohort of 6th and 7th graders doing well there, they’d be able to all move to Euclid en mass.

One good first year with a cohort (even a small one) of kids testing on/above grade level and Euclid will flourish. One bad first year that doesn’t get that? It’ll be as bad as Cardozo in 5 years. You gotta get off on the right foot, and the SWW@FS stopover is a creative way to up the odds of doing that. [/quote]

Unfortunately, these kids will never get a chance to go to Euclid. They are just sending in the current 1st graders as the only class in the school, and then will bring in new classes behind them[b]. I am really afraid it will fare much worse as a result of that choice, but time will tell I guess. [/b]

And to answer your other q, my understandings is that the current swing space is going to get renovated before it opens as Euclid. [/quote]

Same. From our feeder, there is a lot of excitement about FS and hesitation about Euclid. Maybe the parents can create pressure to make Euclid particularly appealing (and to offer more than Cardozo Middle did).[/quote]

As someone whose kid is already headed for FS, I worry that these families will petition to stay and it will change the character of the school.

It's a ton of disruption for FS, all to appease some wealthy families in center city when kids all over DC are stuck in failing middle schools, with no Euclid on the horizon for them. Why do parents in Logan Circle get this kind of attention and an out to a much better middle? 
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Yes, people who stick it out at Seaton, Garrison, and Cleveland are truly the 1 percent! What on earth do you mean, "character"? And it's a little odd for you to be so concerned about that when FS accepts a ton of lottery applicants anyway, many from those very same feeder schools.

The reason this is happening is parent advocacy, but the bigger reason under the radar is that in the long term, Cardozo high school needs more space. DCPS has been projecting overcrowding there for a while. [/quote]

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