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Where is the space in Ward 3 for a charter HS?[/quote]

The old Hardy school?

The reason Wilson crowding is such a conundrum is that there is no easy way to add capacity to any of the schools in the Wilson pyramid, including Wilson. Charters don't really have any more options than DCPS does.  [/quote]

Charters can rent or buy space privately.  It's not ideal but an office building or something could be made into a high school.[/quote]

Nothing stops DCPS from renting or buying space. The Working Group hasn't been able to locate suitable space in Ward 3, even though they have been looking. One of the ideas was to see if an office building near Tenleytown could be used as overflow classrooms for Wilson. [/quote]

One way to reduce overcrowding at Wilson is to identify the 100 or so students with the worst disciplinary and attendance records.  If they are IB unfortunately there isn’t much to be done.  But if they are OOB then the school can basically expel them to their IB high schools.  All it takes is will to do the right thing.[/quote]
For educators, doing the right thing means doing what’s best for the kids.  Expulsion ain’t it.

- Wilson parent[/quote]

Expelling the kids with the 100 worst disciplinary records might not be the best thing for *those* 100 kids, but I'd guess it would be the best thing for a whole bunch of other kids (both from an overcrowding and a school atmosphere perspective).  [/quote]

And a terrible thing for the schools that receive them.[/quote]

There's a decent chance that their worst-at-Wilson disciplinary records won't even be a blip on the radar at their IB schools.  [/quote]

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