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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]One thing has become [b]perfectly clear[/b] through all this is the[b] toxic culture[/b] at Banneker, led first by parents, teachers and adminstrators and trickled through to students.[/quote]

You don't realize that you [u]also[/u] have toilet paper stuck to your shoe, Save Shawster.  As a casual observer with older kids in a distant part of the city, your subtext is painfully obvious every time you speak.

We long-time District residents remember that Cap Hill parents used similar rhetoric several years ago when they, just like you, asserted that they needed their very own, brand-new, by right schools to educate their offspring.  You're too new to DC and too young to remember, but the dialogue is virtually interchangeable.

1.  Existing by-right school in close physical proximity to your address is "not acceptable."
2.  Your 2 - 6 year old is a very advanced learner who thrives on academic challenge.
3.  Ideally, you'd like DCPS to carve out an all-new school for your demographic with attendance boundaries that ensure the ratio of your SES dominates any new school (although other demographic groups can attend, because hey, for the moment, they do still live in the dwindling number of inbound apartments).  
4.  You're silent as to why you and [i]all your like-kind demographic [/i]can't just attend existing school (which incidentally is equidistant to your address as the new building you seek.  Distance isn't a factor).  No amount of programming or staff changes will make the existing school work for you.

We get it.  You want an oasis. [/quote]

Nobody is silent about why Cardozo Middle is unacceptable!  It is underfunded, the high school takes all the admin attention, the principal wants the middle school out, it has no permanent AP in many years.  If DCPS would improve Cardozo Middle then maybe this would work, but they have been unwilling to do so.

It is Banneker that prides itself on being an oasis.  Maybe Banneker families shound invest in their neighborhood schools.  [/quote]

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