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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really think people who are anxious should get involved. It’s really counterproductive to be all “sky is falling” based on your subjective impression of one meeting. This is a great opportunity for a smaller high school with a lot of bright, high achieving kids. I’ve pored over area high schools extensively, and unless you are going to pull up roots and move to western MoCo, the new HS is as good an opportunity as anything else. [/quote]

Hey, great idea!  And you recommend that we get involved how exactly?  Apply to be Chancellor?  Run for Mayor?

There is an advisory-only working group with a set membership of community representatives.  They are doing great work, within the narrow parameters set by DCPS.  This CWG has help a couple of online meetings to catch the rest of us (including the meeting last week), and we’ve had the opportunity to respond to a survey.  That’s it.  That is how we can be involved.  Unless you know something we don’t?

You want to know why this once-optimistic parent is now anxious?  Because in these meetings we learn gems like this one:  The DCPS liaisons said that they had planned to hire a principal by around now, but then realized that September is not a time that candidates are looking for principal jobs.  No lie!  They are in the principal-hiring business and only now do they realize that the time to hire a principal was last Spring/Summer.  Does that give you cause for optimism?![/quote]

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