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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where do people feel Takoma Education Campus is on the spectrum of desirability?[/quote]

There is a robust group of neighborhood parents working to get the word out to others in the neighborhood that the school is a positive place to be. There are many neighborhood early childhood kids there now and many (most?) are sticking around. The principal is really great, as is the new assistant principal. My child will be in K next year and we're happy there. So I would say that Takoma ranks high on the spectrum of desirability, as you put it.[/quote]

Until there is a Middle School  (and not an education campus) and Takoma becomes a true Elementary School, there is little hope of Takoma gaining significant traction.  It will be every year, every child lotteries and tries to find a place with a long-term outlook for MS & HS.  Students leave one by one for OOB, Charter, Mont Co.

the boundary proposal leaves this part of Ward 4 high & dry!  new north MS as the only school that will feed to Coolidge?  There is no way that the feeder education campuses to Coolidge (Brookland, Takoma, Whittier, LaSalle Backus) will improve in any significant way until there is a real MS (it should either be in one of those 4 feeders or Coolidge MS, with Coolidge then feeding to Roosevelt). 
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Yeah, the whole education campus debacle is really holding back progress in Ward 4.  The population, need, and desire - all are there for good schools - but the middle school situation is like walking a plank and it's undermining the elementary schools.  [/quote]

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