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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good for Grosso for asking out loud why Shaw parents don't put in effort at Cardozo. He's come to his senses.[/quote]

How does everyone know they aren’t? Some are. That doesn’t mean the current situation at Cardozo is fixable. DCPS has been asking the school to do a million thing for years. Splitting the middle school out of the high school is the most obvious solution. Cardozo EC is the *only* DCPS education campus that is both 6-12 and by-right for middle and high school. It’s not working, and that’s not the fault of the staff or students there. [/quote]

Shaw parents are already working to improve Cardozo and Grosso appears to be unaware of it. [b] The active parents' kids are too young to enroll.[/b]  But DCPS and Grosso need to acknowledge that their neglect of Cardozo over many years makes it harder and is itself a factor in parents not wanting to enroll.  [/quote]

I hate statements like this.  You realize there are other people living in Shaw besides those of you that have babies.  Some of us have been living here for awhile and were doing things in the Shaw community before you decided to move to this neighborhood for your $5 lattes and Orange Theory.  We actually care about the schools too.

I know.  Shocking.[/quote]

DP. And isn't this the problem with the Save Shaw crew? They haven't really reached out to the people whose children are Cardozo-aged or nearing. The immediate PP is right to be angry about the PK parents who want a unicorn.[/quote]

Definitely. I mean, how dare they want a good school.  The nerve. [/quote]

Because we don't?  Or didn't?

Look - I get it.  You moved into this neighborhood and had kids (or suddenly realized that little squishy baby one day is going to have to go school).  And you struck out at Mundo Minds or Inspired Ying or whatever the flavor of the year is.  You can't afford to live up in those fancy houses and go to Janey and have to slum it down here with the rest of us.  So what do you do?  You want to make your own school.  You know you don't have time to create a charter school, because your job at the World Bank or volunteering for Elizabeth Warren doesn't leave much time for that.  So fight the city for a new middle school at Shaw.

But here is the thing:

1. A group of parents did that 10 years ago (did you know?  did you ask?)
2. You make the rest of us in Shaw look bad (and honestly, many of us will probably be gone and you will finally get your Gap Kids).

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So much snark. Where were you? Why weren't you fighting for your neighborhood schools? Did you think that by getting lucky to get an OOB seat WOTP and then scooting into Banneker gave you a pass on fighting for the rest of the kids or for a neighborhood school? People have been fighting for this for over a decade and there are new voices and bodies at the table. Good for all of us. In fact, really good, because if we don't fight for this then we will be left with nothing.

If there's someone in Shaw who looks bad, it's you. You gave up, you throw shade. You don't want to fight, then don't. We'll do the hard work for you. 
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What are you talking about?  [/quote]

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