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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's why I think that Francis-Stevens middle school should go away and all the kids who go there AND all the kids who would go to Shaw MS should have a single MS feeder....which could be Cardozo. Then people won't feel like they need to advocate against opening a new middle school for fear of losing one they see as workable.[/quote]

You do realize that just means no one will stay in DCPS for 5th and up, right? [/quote]

this. No one with options wants to send their kids to Cardozo.[/quote]

But that is not immutable. If Cardozo MS feeders were Janney, Lafayette, Eaton, Brent, Ross, and Francis-Stevens (to give a ridiculous example), plenty of parents would send their kids there. The building is nice. It's relatively easy to get to. It would be big enough to offer a variety of classes and extracurriculars and have plenty of well-prepared students entering. Yes, there would be older kids in the same building. But that is not the end of the world. Plenty of pk3 parents at Francis-Stevens probably freak out about the middle schoolers being there and then they get over it. It's possible to have a middle and high school share a building without the kids mingling, and it opens up opportunities like middle schoolers being able to take AP classes if they are super advanced.

There are always going to be BASIS or bust parents and families that leave for the burbs. But if Francis-Stevens middle school is good enough for your kids, then the exact same feeder kids plus the ones who'd go to Shaw (so Cleveland, Garrison, Ross, Seaton, Thomson, and F-S, the latter of which would send more kids because there'd be more space with the middle school gone) seems like a pretty good option. And Cardozo is a way nicer building for big kids, with an outdoor track, a swimming pool, nice auditorium and gym, an aviation (FLEX-ACE) and other science labs. [/quote]

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