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Anonymous wrote:How does continuing to overcrowd Deal and Wilson help fix the other middle and high schools? It’s like watching a bad hostage movie. What magic resources do these schools have that makes them the envy of the city?

A student body who were mostly raised in economically stable, non-traumatizing environments with highly educated parents who convey the importance of education.

Anonymous wrote:PP- no chance of that happening. Not while bowser is in office and lives in Shepard park. And she is going to run for a third term. Her kid will be at Shepard in three more years so just assume SP will feed to deal then Wilson until her kid graduates!

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Anonymous wrote:Here's my guess:
DC will make all middle and high schools city-wide schools. No more by-right, local schools at the MS and HS level. If parents know they have no guarantee to Deal or Wilson, it forces them to (1) move or (2) try out new schools with excess capacity.

We live two blocks to Hardy MS and have a baby on the way. But I'm in no way 100% expecting my kid to have a guarantee of attending 10 years from now.

I can't think of any positive benefit to doing away with neighborhood middle and high schools. Seriously, what good would it do? I mean, charter schools would benefit, but I can't think of any nonpartisan. objective, positive good that would arise out of it.

The city eliminated Shaw MS without public discussion. So, there's some indication they are willing to do away with a neighborhood middle school, for better or worse. It'll drive at least some of those affected IB to Deal... we talk about it as an option since the city isn't willing to serve our needs.

Erasing the non-material expectation of a new Shaw Middle is not "some indication" of anything other than the Mayor's political duty to cater to the most important constituents, meaning Banneker supporters and boosters. Certainly not a real reason to get rid of neighborhood schools that actually exist.

Maybe. But it's not wrong to suggest that the city seems to be moving toward more city-wide options (such as rumors of a city-wide or application MS). And the current situation in Shaw will most certainly exacerbate the Deal IB problem. How do I know? Because I'm considering moving IB for deal by upper elementary, as are some of my neighbors.

Same here.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's my guess:
DC will make all middle and high schools city-wide schools. No more by-right, local schools at the MS and HS level. If parents know they have no guarantee to Deal or Wilson, it forces them to (1) move or (2) try out new schools with excess capacity.

We live two blocks to Hardy MS and have a baby on the way. But I'm in no way 100% expecting my kid to have a guarantee of attending 10 years from now.

I can't think of any positive benefit to doing away with neighborhood middle and high schools. Seriously, what good would it do? I mean, charter schools would benefit, but I can't think of any nonpartisan. objective, positive good that would arise out of it.

The city eliminated Shaw MS without public discussion. So, there's some indication they are willing to do away with a neighborhood middle school, for better or worse. It'll drive at least some of those affected IB to Deal... we talk about it as an option since the city isn't willing to serve our needs.

Erasing the non-material expectation of a new Shaw Middle is not "some indication" of anything other than the Mayor's political duty to cater to the most important constituents, meaning Banneker supporters and boosters. Certainly not a real reason to get rid of neighborhood schools that actually exist.

Maybe. But it's not wrong to suggest that the city seems to be moving toward more city-wide options (such as rumors of a city-wide or application MS). And the current situation in Shaw will most certainly exacerbate the Deal IB problem. How do I know? Because I'm considering moving IB for deal by upper elementary, as are some of my neighbors.

Anonymous wrote:How does continuing to overcrowd Deal and Wilson help fix the other middle and high schools? It’s like watching a bad hostage movie. What magic resources do these schools have that makes them the envy of the city?

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Anonymous wrote:When is the next boundary review scheduled to take place?

DC law is every ten years so 2022.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's my guess:
DC will make all middle and high schools city-wide schools. No more by-right, local schools at the MS and HS level. If parents know they have no guarantee to Deal or Wilson, it forces them to (1) move or (2) try out new schools with excess capacity.

We live two blocks to Hardy MS and have a baby on the way. But I'm in no way 100% expecting my kid to have a guarantee of attending 10 years from now.

I can't think of any positive benefit to doing away with neighborhood middle and high schools. Seriously, what good would it do? I mean, charter schools would benefit, but I can't think of any nonpartisan. objective, positive good that would arise out of it.

The city eliminated Shaw MS without public discussion. So, there's some indication they are willing to do away with a neighborhood middle school, for better or worse. It'll drive at least some of those affected IB to Deal... we talk about it as an option since the city isn't willing to serve our needs.

Erasing the non-material expectation of a new Shaw Middle is not "some indication" of anything other than the Mayor's political duty to cater to the most important constituents, meaning Banneker supporters and boosters. Certainly not a real reason to get rid of neighborhood schools that actually exist.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's my guess:
DC will make all middle and high schools city-wide schools. No more by-right, local schools at the MS and HS level. If parents know they have no guarantee to Deal or Wilson, it forces them to (1) move or (2) try out new schools with excess capacity.

We live two blocks to Hardy MS and have a baby on the way. But I'm in no way 100% expecting my kid to have a guarantee of attending 10 years from now.

I can't think of any positive benefit to doing away with neighborhood middle and high schools. Seriously, what good would it do? I mean, charter schools would benefit, but I can't think of any nonpartisan. objective, positive good that would arise out of it.

The city eliminated Shaw MS without public discussion. So, there's some indication they are willing to do away with a neighborhood middle school, for better or worse. It'll drive at least some of those affected IB to Deal... we talk about it as an option since the city isn't willing to serve our needs.

Actually I don't have kids at any of the schools I listed. Maury is a cap hill school, and should feed to SH, the cap hill middle school. SH has abysmal test scores and many of the more affluent cap hill residents avoid it. If Brent and Maury would feed to SH, then SH would improve and lots of DC kids would benefit (not just white kids). Here's an opportunity to improve a middle school, but DC won't take it. SH wouldn't become a segregated school full of only white kids. It's ridiculous to suggest that.

Unfortunately your responses are exactly what I'm talking about. It's the attitude that white and/or wealthy kids might benefit too so let's not do it, even if it would also benefit kids of other races and SES. So go ahead and keep telling people it's racist to demand high performing schools, but don't you dare say a word when DCPS and DCPCS continue to fail to deliver high performing schools. You're a big part of the problem.