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The only legitimate reason to keep it open is to appease a diminishing voter block of people who spout "Colt Pride" but have nothing broader to offer the situation. The school was once great pre-1980s, then descended to passable through the mid-nineties. Since then it has not been anything other than significantly sub-standard. Schools like this are a very big part of why the DC school system is so dysfunctional.

The school has been systematically overlooked for decades now. Maybe the problems have more to them than appeasing voters who are nostalgic with school pride. We have an entire feeder system of schools that makes it possible for someone to get a diploma when a person is barely literate. Less than a handful of the kids I knew who graduated from there a decade ago who did make it to college were actually able to graduate. How can there be so many years of efforts put into elementary schools with zero progress on having more than one or two upper level schools that are functioning and producing educated adults? I understand that the resources are limited, but there has got to be some way to deal with this. Unfortunately, I think the problem is so deep and covered in so many layer of issues that the best solution is to dismantle the decades-old culture of the school, mothball the school and offer it up to a charter. [/quote]

Oh, Right -- turn it into a charter -- that will help  (not!)[/quote]

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