The school should move, but not be completely closed. School within a school maybe? But to push these kids into Ballou STAY, Roosevelt STAY, or Luke C. Moore would just push the limits of other programs that are already underfunded and over enrolled.

Everyone is stuck on scores and not the program structure itself.

Was Met is the only small alternative school that specifically caters to high need , working but underage parents, and children who have chronic homelessness on a 1:1 basis. The school design was originally set up to serve 200 or less.

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Anonymous wrote:Do any of the comprehensive high schools house an alternative program? Couldn’t they do one at Dunbar for example?

The Roosevelt and Ballou STAY programs are similar to Wash Met.

Similar in outcomes? Similar in programming? Similar for the students they are trying to serve?

What do you mean? Outcomes and programming were horrible at Wash Met. The school needs to be closed.

Trying to figure out what the previous poster meant. The previous poster wrote that Roosevelt and Ballou STAY are similar to Wash Met. How are they similar? Similar in outcomes? Similar in programming or similar in students they are trying to serve?

Roosevelt and Wash Met are both one star - Wash Met scored 12.9 on the OSSE star system. Roosevelt was slightly lower at 12.69. Is that what was meant by "similar"?

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Anonymous wrote:Do any of the comprehensive high schools house an alternative program? Couldn’t they do one at Dunbar for example?

The Roosevelt and Ballou STAY programs are similar to Wash Met.

Similar in outcomes? Similar in programming? Similar for the students they are trying to serve?

What do you mean? Outcomes and programming were horrible at Wash Met. The school needs to be closed.

Anonymous wrote:1. This closure was a real estate move and has nothing to do with performance. Academic achievement is a scapegoat.

2. There are only 4 alternative programs in the city for about 3,000 high school aged students that would qualify for one.
Many kids don’t go because smaller environments are more supportive for the myriad of cross occurring traumas and reasons for the kids being there in the first place.

3. Alternative programs pretty much dictate that students are coming in below grade level academically. Why would they have high test scores???

4. Please read the argument to keep the school open before drinking the Ferebee Kool Aid.

Where is this? Do you have a link?

PP here:

From the recent City Paper article .”

Washington Met enrolled 157 students this year, which is 21 students more than it did last year, but less than other alternative schools—335 less than Ballou STAY in Ward 8; 123 less than Luke C. Moore in Ward 5; and 604 less than Roosevelt STAY in Ward 4.

Of the four alternative programs (including WasMet), two have populations of over 500 students.

Think about it, 6-800 high risk kids all lumped into two programs... with Luke C Moore having almost 300.

WasMet is literally the only small school.

But it’s location .., at 300 Bryant St... prime real estate.

Very sad indeed.

1. This closure was a real estate move and has nothing to do with performance. Academic achievement is a scapegoat.

2. There are only 4 alternative programs in the city for about 3,000 high school aged students that would qualify for one.
Many kids don’t go because smaller environments are more supportive for the myriad of cross occurring traumas and reasons for the kids being there in the first place.

3. Alternative programs pretty much dictate that students are coming in below grade level academically. Why would they have high test scores???

4. Please read the argument to keep the school open before drinking the Ferebee Kool Aid.

Anonymous wrote:On average there are about 50 kids at Wash Met a day. Whatever it was supposed to be, it isn’t working.

You realize that when those kids don't have Wash Met then it is likely that on average day 0 kids will be showing up somewhere. Many of the kids are at Wash Met because they are "safety transfers". They can't go back to the same places that were unsafe.

But let's assume you are right -- Wash Met isn't working. What do we know about the students performance/attendance when they were in other environments? Were those schools working better for them. Also, what will we know next year? Will DC be transparent, follow the students and report on how they are doing in their new schools?

On average there are about 50 kids at Wash Met a day. Whatever it was supposed to be, it isn’t working.

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for posting the PBS series. This needs to be required viewing for everyone

It's On Demand through Xfinity too. Activists -- you all need to have a watch party so that people can see, discuss and brainstorm the issues really confronting our schools trying to serve kids with the greatest needs.

Thank you for posting the PBS series. This needs to be required viewing for everyone

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Anonymous wrote:Do any of the comprehensive high schools house an alternative program? Couldn’t they do one at Dunbar for example?

The Roosevelt and Ballou STAY programs are similar to Wash Met.

Similar in outcomes? Similar in programming? Similar for the students they are trying to serve?

Anonymous wrote:I urge all of you to watch the stunning documentary on DC Met done a few years ago called "180 Days" on PBS

Here, I'll make it easy for you. Here's episode one: https://www.thirteen.org/programs/180-days/180-days-180-days-year-inside-american-high-school/

I urge all of you to watch the stunning documentary on DC Met done a few years ago called "180 Days" on PBS

Anonymous wrote:Do any of the comprehensive high schools house an alternative program? Couldn’t they do one at Dunbar for example?

The Roosevelt and Ballou STAY programs are similar to Wash Met.