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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone clarify years here? Or post any links or text of emails where we can learn more?

We are currently a Tubman family. As a previous poster noted, we have the swing space at Banneker for the next two years (24-25 and 25-26). Someone earlier up thread said the first cohort of kids at Euclid Middle School would be current first graders, but someone else said it was right after Tubman’s time there, which would be 26-27, but current 1st graders will only be on 4th grade then. Is another school going to swing there in between?

Additional question - while it’s not well publicized, the kids at Tubman who feed into CHEC for middle school (and presumably the other elementaries that feed into CHEC middle) have the option of Cardozo, without lotterying, if they don’t want Spanish immersion. Will we maintain that right for SWW@FS and the new Euclid Middle School? That’d be game changing for us and great for [b]Tubman, which has been improving a lot recently[/b] and is about to have brand new building, too.

Honestly, the brief stopover at SWW@FS is genius. The problem with Euclid was always going to be that first year of parents not wanting to take a risk on an unproven school and continuing to flee for other middle schools as the case is now. But SWW@FS is an established, solid school. People will stay for that, and if you’ve got an established cohort of 6th and 7th graders doing well there, they’d be able to all move to Euclid en mass.

One good first year with a cohort (even a small one) of kids testing on/above grade level and Euclid will flourish. One bad first year that doesn’t get that? It’ll be as bad as Cardozo in 5 years. You gotta get off on the right foot, and the SWW@FS stopover is a creative way to up the odds of doing that. [/quote]

Tubman has not been improving a lot, and until they get the behaviors under control, I doubt parents will be flocking to a chaotic school just for a middle school option across town with no high school feeder. [/quote]

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