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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me add, I write the above sadly.  The call this week left me very discouraged.

I want to be excited about the new school.  I want it to be a success.  I want my now-Hardy DC to attend with enthusiasm.

[b]I want DCPS to tell us all something that will assure us that the school will get off to an smashing start [/b]and that will give the first couple of years of students good reasons to choose it.

But that was not what the DCPS liaisons accomplished in the call.

One more detail of the f’ed-up planning:  You know why the first two years of students were given the option of choosing JR?  For “historical consistency” because that is what happened in the last boundary review.  No better reason than that.

So, unless DCPS alters the balance of pros and cons, current Hardy 7th and  8th graders will choose JR, and Macarthur will start filled with all OOB students from far afield.  Which will do nothing to ease crowding at JR.[/quote]

[b]There's nothing they can say to guarantee this!  [/b]It's going to be full of on-grade-level students and programmed accordingly and will be very good for students who attend.  I agree that there should be no choice option though, unless maybe a sibling is a JR.  [/quote]

Yes, there is!  They can guarantee that continuity of courses is offered, even if it means unusually small classes!  So if a post-Hardy kid wants to take AP Italian or Algebra II or whatever, even if only a few students at the partially-filled school are ready for it, they should commit to making that available.

High school is more complicated than ES or MS.  If the kids showing up early on only have a very limited number of course options, virtually no sports, and no clubs, no reputation with colleges, then they are foregoing a lot of a standard high school experience.
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They are not going to overstaff the school for 4 years.  Sorry, that's not how it's going to work.  [/quote]

I don’t think they will, and that’s the problem.

During the first 1-3 years of ramp-up, the school needs extra budget or it ensures a very limited experience for the early students.[/quote]

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