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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why all the vitriol? This was written by long-time Shaw ANC Commissioner Alex Padro. He has a lot of context and understands the neighborhood and DCPS.

I live in Shaw, send my kids to one of the elementary schools and would indeed consider a Shaw Middle School at the original site, but will not send my kids to Cardozo. The site is huge and can include a Shaw Middle as well as Bannekar, so that is what people are trying for. [/quote]

Why won’t you send your kids to Cardozo?[/quote]

a) BC it's too far, 
b) BC it's not a stand-alone school, 
c) BC it doesn't have enough differentiation for advanced kids, 
d) BC Ross and Thomson kids don't also go there.

A stand-alone middle school within walking distance of our house with kids from Ross, Thomson, Seaton, Cleveland and Garrison is appealing to me. The current option is not.[/quote]

Added some letters to break these arguments down.

a) It's not too far. If your middle schooler could get to Hardy, Deal, Latin, Basis, or DCI then they could get to Cardozo.

b) parents of 3yos send their kids to school at Francis Stevens with 8th graders and they manage. Basis and Latin and Haynes and Cap City and lots of other schools have both middle and high school. There are plenty of ways to keep middle and high schoolers separate within the same campus--Cardozo already uses some of them (physical barriers, monitoring from staff, different uniforms for middle and high school). And there will be Banneker high schoolers on the Shaw campus so either way 6th-12th will be in the same general vicinity.

c) and d) these have nothing to do with the building. Feeder patterns and curricular offerings can happen just as easily in Cardozo vs. a new Shaw middle school and it makes sense for parents to lobby for them.

The biggest issue Shaw parents have is that they should want the kids currently routed to Francis Stevens to also be sent to Cardozo, but this pits them against the families who like SWW middle school and don't want to go to Cardozo OR to Shaw (though some of the folks in the Ward 2 education network and those with very young kids might be swayed by additional ECE classrooms). Having all six schools feed to the same place is something DCPS and Grosso are more likely to support than building a new middle school, and pushing for it to offer advanced classes might just get thrown in there too as a salve to the SWW at F-S families.[/quote]

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