Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal is 4X to 5X times larger than its sister middle schools. This creates all sorts of overcrowding problems in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on the stage, in the cafeteria, etc. Worse, it incentivizes under-enrolled MS all across the city. It’s complete madness to continue to bus kids there who could populate under enrolled middle schools and drastically improve funding allocations.

This is untrue.

np: What's untrue?

Deal MS 1396
Hardy MS 531
Eliot MS 317
Kramer MS 272

Several others are 300-400. That's all I bothered to look up.

Deal is five times larger than many DCPS high schools. It’s a total joke where everyone loses. Stop the madness.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal is 4X to 5X times larger than its sister middle schools. This creates all sorts of overcrowding problems in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on the stage, in the cafeteria, etc. Worse, it incentivizes under-enrolled MS all across the city. It’s complete madness to continue to bus kids there who could populate under enrolled middle schools and drastically improve funding allocations.

That maybe is something to consider in the boundary review. But as long as students are in boundary for a school, they need to be able to get there.

the deal boundary is going to shrink considerably in the update. Mnt Pleasant will like take a hit, bancroft and marie reed will go to MacFarland middle.

Marie Reed already feeds to CHEC and MacFarland, not Deal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal is 4X to 5X times larger than its sister middle schools. This creates all sorts of overcrowding problems in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on the stage, in the cafeteria, etc. Worse, it incentivizes under-enrolled MS all across the city. It’s complete madness to continue to bus kids there who could populate under enrolled middle schools and drastically improve funding allocations.

That maybe is something to consider in the boundary review. But as long as students are in boundary for a school, they need to be able to get there.

the deal boundary is going to shrink considerably in the update. Mnt Pleasant will like take a hit, bancroft and marie reed will go to MacFarland middle.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal is 4X to 5X times larger than its sister middle schools. This creates all sorts of overcrowding problems in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on the stage, in the cafeteria, etc. Worse, it incentivizes under-enrolled MS all across the city. It’s complete madness to continue to bus kids there who could populate under enrolled middle schools and drastically improve funding allocations.

That maybe is something to consider in the boundary review. But as long as students are in boundary for a school, they need to be able to get there.

The students are not in boundary for Deal. The elementary schools which they got into by lottery are in boundary for Deal. Big difference.

That's not what we're talking about. The busses that are being cut run through neighborhoods that are IB for Deal.

Which bus routes specifically are being cut?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal is 4X to 5X times larger than its sister middle schools. This creates all sorts of overcrowding problems in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on the stage, in the cafeteria, etc. Worse, it incentivizes under-enrolled MS all across the city. It’s complete madness to continue to bus kids there who could populate under enrolled middle schools and drastically improve funding allocations.

That maybe is something to consider in the boundary review. But as long as students are in boundary for a school, they need to be able to get there.

The students are not in boundary for Deal. The elementary schools which they got into by lottery are in boundary for Deal. Big difference.

That's not what we're talking about. The busses that are being cut run through neighborhoods that are IB for Deal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal is 4X to 5X times larger than its sister middle schools. This creates all sorts of overcrowding problems in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on the stage, in the cafeteria, etc. Worse, it incentivizes under-enrolled MS all across the city. It’s complete madness to continue to bus kids there who could populate under enrolled middle schools and drastically improve funding allocations.

That maybe is something to consider in the boundary review. But as long as students are in boundary for a school, they need to be able to get there.

The students are not in boundary for Deal. The elementary schools which they got into by lottery are in boundary for Deal. Big difference.

every kid who commutes to every other middle school uses WMATA.

but yes "public" transit for Deal.

Anonymous wrote:Deal is 4X to 5X times larger than its sister middle schools. This creates all sorts of overcrowding problems in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on the stage, in the cafeteria, etc. Worse, it incentivizes under-enrolled MS all across the city. It’s complete madness to continue to bus kids there who could populate under enrolled middle schools and drastically improve funding allocations.

The kids aren't bussed to Deal like kids might be in a different district. Kids get enrolled at Deal, and then need a way to get there. Students in DC mostly take WMATA public transportation. There are no school busses (special needs kids are occasionally bussed)

So... having a public transit system that can accommodate a few thousand kids a day, twice a day, is reasonable. The proposed plan ignores these kids.

Anonymous wrote:Deal is 4X to 5X times larger than its sister middle schools. This creates all sorts of overcrowding problems in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on the stage, in the cafeteria, etc. Worse, it incentivizes under-enrolled MS all across the city. It’s complete madness to continue to bus kids there who could populate under enrolled middle schools and drastically improve funding allocations.

That maybe is something to consider in the boundary review. But as long as students are in boundary for a school, they need to be able to get there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal is 4X to 5X times larger than its sister middle schools. This creates all sorts of overcrowding problems in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on the stage, in the cafeteria, etc. Worse, it incentivizes under-enrolled MS all across the city. It’s complete madness to continue to bus kids there who could populate under enrolled middle schools and drastically improve funding allocations.

This is untrue.

np: What's untrue?

Deal MS 1396
Hardy MS 531
Eliot MS 317
Kramer MS 272

Several others are 300-400. That's all I bothered to look up.

Now you’re not making any sense. So you’d bus NW schools to Eliot Hine or Kramer??? Also Deal is larger in physical size. You are showing nothing but ignorance. You don’t even deserve a seat at the table.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal is 4X to 5X times larger than its sister middle schools. This creates all sorts of overcrowding problems in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on the stage, in the cafeteria, etc. Worse, it incentivizes under-enrolled MS all across the city. It’s complete madness to continue to bus kids there who could populate under enrolled middle schools and drastically improve funding allocations.

This is untrue.

np: What's untrue?

Deal MS 1396
Hardy MS 531
Eliot MS 317
Kramer MS 272

Several others are 300-400. That's all I bothered to look up.

Anonymous wrote:Deal is 4X to 5X times larger than its sister middle schools. This creates all sorts of overcrowding problems in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on the stage, in the cafeteria, etc. Worse, it incentivizes under-enrolled MS all across the city. It’s complete madness to continue to bus kids there who could populate under enrolled middle schools and drastically improve funding allocations.

This is untrue.