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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is exhausting. Parents are to blame because they wrongly believe that anything new and shiny means the school is better. So they bitch non stop for new facilities and wow, the test scores still suck. You can renovate Cardozo, rebuild Dunbar and build a new brook land middle...guess what the test scores are abysmal, high SES parents won't send their kids there but yet everyone whines to spend more money or more new buildings.[/quote]

I don't believe it will change test scores. But I'd like my kids (and ALL other kid in the city) to have decent facility because DECENCY.

How's that for a reason?

Or do you think poorly performing kids /schools should just be left in squalor?[/quote]

NP - no one wants them in squalor but they are half empty. We need fewer schools.[b] Give them to charters on 20-year leases. [/quote][/b]

That's the crust of every argument. Give the schools to charters. Frack those kids attending DCPS. [/quote]

I think you mean crux.

No it's not. The idea is have the children in the under enrolled, failing schools have the opportunity to attend a renovated, fully enrolled school with more resources and effective DCPS administrators.

[b]Let successful (Tier 1 only perhaps) charters compete for the chance to lease the empty buildings so that those students, who are also DC residents, have a decent educational experience.

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Come on! You don't care about those kids. You just want the building for another charter school. Those kids in the DCPS would have little chance of getting into this now newly relocated facility. That charter would be filled with the charters existing students, followed by siblings and teachers kids. BTW, the buildings are not empty. They may not be filled to capacity, but they are not empty. The students sitting in their seats are not inanimate objects to be ignored. [/quote]

Wrong. I live 4 blocks from Coolidge. It's had so many leadership changes and reboots everyone has lost count. The conditions those kids go to school in are appalling -- my child attended DCYOP there on Saturdays before they moved their program to Eastern.

No, the building isn't empty but more than half of it is blocked off an unhabitable. IMO those kids should be able to go to the new Roosevelt, which isn't that far away, and get a chance at a fresh start.

Turn the Coolidge building over to a charter, or make it the site for the new north middle school, which is also desperately needed. But the status quo isn't helping anyone.

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Yes, dunbar is new and its at less than 50% capacity, same for coolidge and roosevelt. Why aren't we combining these? and there is Wilson which is overflowing with kids.  HS kids do NOT need to attend school in their own neighborhoods. This is such a waste of money.    Any school at 50% or less capacity should be put on notice that they will be colocated elsewhere or the principal better start knocking on doors to recruit families.[/quote]

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