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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make Jefferson Middle School, Brookland, and Stuart Hobson and other middle schools more competitive and attractive to make more appealing to parents for their children to attend. Make Coolidge a phenomenal high school to draw from Wilson. Think about what parents may be looking for--safety, networking and diversity--in addition to a great curriculum that will help prepare future global leaders, change-makers, tech and business stars, and responsible citizens. Start a sports management, media, and entertainment program at Spingarn High School to take advantage of Langston golf course.[/quote]

Bump. But in the meantime, developmentally, it seems to be a strong idea to pull 6th graders into a different space than 7th and 8th graders. Poking around academic literature now to see what the experts say...[/quote]

Pull the 5th and 6th graders together at Hardy and you'll solve some of ES capacity issues at JKLMM as well![/quote]

It blows my mind how people on this thread spout off "easy peasy" solutions as if you just snap your fingers. There a myriad issues to consider. Staffing, administration, families who are expected to deal with multiple campuses and commutes, extra curriculars that go across grades (sports). We are a Hardy family and happy with how our future looks there with our new principal and newly engaged PTO and increasing feeder school population. Just leave us alone. Capacity issues at JKLMM stem from DCPS being spineless when it came to rewriting the boundaries and addressing OOB policies. It's absurd to devise these new solutions that destablize exisiting schools by contemplating solutions that are so overwhelmingly complex (compared to the easier solutions...ie boundaries and OOB policies). [/quote]

Not to mention that Hardy isn't big enough to hold the 5th and 6th grades form Deal feeders alone, let alone coupled wth those from Hardy. Just drop this dumb idea already.[/quote]

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