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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The answer isn't the old Western or the old Hardy.

The answer is converting SWW into a neighborhood HS.  (The rather pathetic Francis Stevens crowd who've contributed so much to the school's downfall will be thrilled of course.)  It has enough shine beneath the tarnish to appeal to Ward 2 and the southern portion of Ward 3.

Plus, DCPS just hates it.

And, it's terribly run.

Make SWW the new Western HS!
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The location and facilities of Francis Stevens would make a nice small high school for the inner city set. But where do you want to put the elementry the middle school?
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There are very few in-boundary kids that go to F-S.  It's always been a convenient drop-off point for parents who work on the west side of town, or for parents who want a better option than their local schools.  Just send the Foggy Bottom kids to the expanded Hyde; convert F-S to a new Ward 2/Ward 3 High School.  The growing capacity of the charters would be more than enough to take on the OOB population that attends F-S now.

And it wouldn't have to be a small high school.  There is plenty of room to expand the F-S campus if the will and the money is there.[/quote]

What a great idea.  Kids who are zoned for FS could also go to Garrison, another Ward 2 school slated for closure.  For middle school they could go to Hardy, also in Ward 2.[/quote]

Where do you live, PP?

Do they have a public library nearby? If so, ask the person at the counter for "maps." (The word is pronounced how it's spelled.) It will be useful for you to familiarize yourself with these "maps" before making further suggestions. Let me know when you're done, and then we'll move on to the advanced course: incorporating traffic patterns and flows! (Here we'll discuss topics like "rush hour." You may have heard of it on the AM radio. It particularly applies to places without convenient metro rail access, so that's a further layer of complexity that we'll hopefully cover before the end of the semester.) [/quote]

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