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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get real. Shaw middle school would be a big waste like brook land middle. Shiny and new and under enrolled and under performing.  NONE of the proposed rigor for brook land came through, no diversity at all.  Shaw is even at more of a disadvantage.  No strong feeders. DCPS would never put I. Test classes or gifted classes at Shaw middle. Dream on gentrifier parents and hope you get into Latin or basis.[/quote]

Huh? Ross is a very strong feeder with some of the best test scores in the city.  But the kids leave after 3rd grade because they don't want to go to Cardozo.  A decent middle school option would keep them there.[/quote]

not likely at Shaw Middle.  Ross is ONE school, how big a cohort would they send to shaw middle?  Maybe 25 kids?  And other lousy elems would send over a 100. for the school to succeed you need a lot more UMC parents. One solid feeder isnt going to cut it.[/quote]

If the middle school would improve, the feeders would strengthen and grow.  It's a positive feedback loop.  [/quote]

That positive feedback loop is already starting with SWW-FS. So why would families at Ross, Thomson or SWW-FS abandon that to go to Shaw MS or Cardozo for MS?[/quote]

I don't think they will.  But I do think they are strong schools with strong PTOs who mighr motivate to care about Shaw Middle even if they don't intend to send their own child.  For the greater good-- imagine that.[/quote]

The greater good is all good and everything, but would you drop SWW-FS, which is has a better chance at success for a complete uncertainty that is Shaw MS and a complete non-option like Cardozo?  I wouldn't, and I doubt you would too.[/quote]

I would not drop it, but I would show up to the meetings and make an effort and donate and generally support any proposal to make Shaw and Cardozo better.  Just like Ross and SWW-FS were built up by parents who cared about the long term and the greater good.  [/quote]

The problem is that according to the recent feeder path, as soon as Shaw MS is up and running, the feeder option to SWW-FS for Thomson and Ross families is over.  So there is no incentive for those families to support a Shaw MS, and by supporting Shaw MS they are effectively dropping their option to SWW-FS.  [/quote]

How do you know that's true?  I kind of doubt it would be politically possible to take that away.  In the long run, as a Ross family, I might prefer Shaw for location and because it might end up being a larger school with more offerings than SWW-FS in those grades.  But I don't see how they could take it away.

Regardless, anything would be better than Cardozo middle as it is now.[/quote]

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