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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it crazy that School without Walls is just one building with no real access to sports fields. Isn’t that something that DCPS should be managing for the school?[/quote]

Not crazy. It is supposed to be a .school WITHOUT WALLS.. a non-traditional high school where students spent more than half their time OUT IN THE CITY doing jobs, internships or attending GWU and getting an assoc degree. It wasn't supposed to be another AP-oriented, college prep high school with sports and so forth. Like at Ellington now, students who want to do sports and such can and should pursue them can and should do that at one of the comprehensive high schools.

1) merge Walls and combine with Coolidge Early College or Bard, which all have the same missions

2) turn the Walls HS campus into a city-wide ECE school, like SWS or CHML or put it up for bid to a charter

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Who said it’s supposed to be the school WITHOUT FIELDS ?[/quote]

It was always supposed to be a school without traditional high school offerings, including sports. Part of why they set up the policy of students who want to do sports at a school without them could participate at other DCPS schools -- such as the student body president at Banneker who is a star on the Roosevelt football team. In a city this size with ease of commute, everyone does not need to have everything.[/quote]

This is crazy. Very few kids do the GW AA degree. Maybe some seniors do internships but 9th and 10th graders don’t have much going on. The sports teams are a pretty big part of the school just like at any other high school. And kids want to play on teams for their school as that builds school spirit. [/quote]

There's a lot of research that shows that sports are good for HS kids, even kids who aren't stars, and even if the sport builds no school spirit. There's a reason many private schools have a sports requirement. [/quote]

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