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[quote=Anonymous]To clarify, it's not that the Adams space is underutilized. It's inappropriate. The building is not designed for middle school programs. It's an old elementary building with no real parking situated on one of the narrowest streets in Adams Morgan. Which is saying something. But it does have a nuclear fallout shelter.   :wink:

Nobody in their right mind would have made Adams a middle school, let alone a bilingual middle school that doesn't use the bilingual elementary school a block away in the Ward with the highest concern concentration of Spanish speakers in the city. Oh, it also has a pool, full size soccer field, DPR tennis courts on site and is situated on a new cityscape with safer sidewalks on a widened street. That school is Marie Reed. It now feeds into Cardoza for 6-12 with no bilingual track.

Unfortunately, the principal who hatched the Oyster-Adams hybrid of two buildings over a mile apart was not in her right mind back in 2006. But let's not rehash that soap opera.

As of today, it's pretty evident the Oyster-Adams setup is not sustainable as a pk-8 bilingual "education campus". The education campus model in DCPS has resulted in under subscribed, under resourced, small middle school grades scattered across the city. And those are single building schools.

Common sense might say create Reed-Adams "campus" as a DCPS option for dual immersion. But it's more complicated than that.

If you're moving IB just for Oyster, fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride.[/quote]

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