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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I have a hard time really understanding the story.

Walls was created on the GW campus under a specific philosophy.  It was never expected to have much in the way of athletic facilities and didn’t really offer much of anything with respect to athletics.

It has now transitioned to kind of a public “private” school where athletics are more prominent.  The issue is its location was never created for this.

Seems like Walls needs to move its campus elsewhere…perhaps to an under-enrolled comprehensive HS that comes with its own athletic fields and other traditional HS facilities.

This may mean it’s relationship with GW is altered or terminated… not sure…and not sure if most of the students/parents care more about that than sports.[/quote]

Your argument makes no sense. 
Every high school should have sports and extracurriculars. TJ which is the premier magnet school in the US has fields and sports teams. Walls was supposed to get access to GW facilities but they only get minimal access and DCPS doesn’t care. The athletic director tries his best to find and pay for athletic field access with no help from DCPS. The kids schlepp all over the city trying to find scraps of playing space. No one is talking about moving Walls. That is a pie in the sky idea which will not happen in the next 10-15 years. I don’t have kids at Walls but I am outraged for those students. You can ignore their predicament but it is just another example of how DCPS doesn’t care about its students. Sooner or later you will be directly affected by this type of attitude by the Mayor and Central Office. It is pervasive in every thing they do[/quote]

School without walls was modeled after the Parkway Program whereby the school was meant to be integrated with the city.  If you wanted to learn art history, you would go to the Smithsonian and learn from an expert…hence your learning should not be contained within the walls of a school.

It was a very progressive school model meant to be radically different from the traditional HS model.

The school was founded in 1971 and operated out of the floor of an office building…the school moved to its current location in the late 1970s.

My cousin attended in the late 1980s and loved the model and its lack of traditional HS structure.  The school attracted an eclectic group.

The point is that what it is now is significantly different than what it was originally contemplated.

TJ was never created under such a radical model as to how school was taught. Not at all relevant to compare the two.
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