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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^THIS^^^ This in the end is why you lose. Because they don’t believe you are in any way committed to attend. [/quote]

Because quite frankly, they’re not committed. They will absolutely leave for middle and high school. They’ll sell their houses and move to the suburbs, citing the need for more space and definitely not the schools as their reason. The ones who can’t do that will enter the lottery for mediocre charter middle school options or try for private - anything without a DCPS label on it - and later they’ll explain why it was the right decision for their kid but ho hum DCPS better work on a better middle school pattern!

I know a bunch of people who are actively lobbying DCPS to “save” Shaw middle school. None of them will actually consider sending their kids to DCPS middle school. That would not change if there was a Shaw middle school. [/quote]

So what makes it okay for Cardozo Middle to carry on the way it is now?  Oh no, high-SES kids will never enroll, guess that means we can treat the kids who go to Cardozo like crap?  [/quote]

What do you want them to have--better separation from the high schoolers (though you probably don't know how separated they are now)? A dedicated principal with a contract longer than one year? Different extracurriculars or course offerings (if so, what)? Not one of these things requires its own building. If the PTA presidents (or other families) from Cardozo feeders grouped up and talked with the Cardozo MS AP and principal to ask how they could help, what would they hear? I bet it would not be "lobby furiously for a dedicated MS building in Shaw."[/quote]

They are not separate enough because they are together at arrival and dismissal.  And because having to jointly administer a building between two struggling schools is a level of complexity they do not need.

I am not aware of any middle school sited with a high school that has its own principal.  [/quote]

Wow.  Ok.  [/quote]

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