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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coolidge, Wells, and Whittier are all over capacity in one of the fastest growing neighborhoods for families in DC. It's wild to me that DCPS just told Whittier they'll basically modernize to the same capacity and instead of building a new building for Wells just added a cafeteria for Coolidge.[/quote]

+1000

This is the part of the city I was going to mention.  Wells was overcrowded right after it was built.  Whittier keeps growing its enrollment despite a horrible old building.  When that new building is built it will be immediately overcrowded.  Why? Because DCPS refuses to plan for growth and make the school bigger.  DCPS is a truly terrible organization.[/quote]

They need a second HS but the problem is that school would almost certainly need Shepherd as a feeder and the Mayor will never let that happen. So instead Coolidge and J-R will remain massively overcrowded and growing and the solution will be to limit OOB Coolidge enrollment (fine) and address zero systemic issues.[/quote]

I don’t think they need a second high school.  Coolidge should take fewer OOB kids.  Whittier needs to be much bigger than what they are projecting.  But I don’t think most of those Whittier kids would actually attend Coolidge.  Most of the families we know left before middle school.[/quote]

Whittier kids are not a monolith, it's one of the schools many draws, and plenty do go to Wells and Coolidge. You can't keep expanding it and the Takoma boundary area and just assume none of those kids will go to MS or HS in their feeder. And you might get some of those UMC in boundary parents to commit to another brand new HS but admittedly it's hard to get people to buy in to an overcrowded school with a large OOB that the city writes off as fine enough despite having a very committed staff.[/quote]

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