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Yes, you need to fix the schools, but to do that you need to get educated people to send their children to the schools, which means you need to get the people to stay until the children are school-age. Right now many are tempted to leave due to the lack of playgrounds. There are absolutely zero playgrouds in the downtown area right now. And, the city as a whole has way fewer playgrounds than it should. It is especially important to have playgrounds and not just park spaces when children are in the toddler years as they need a place to play that is fenced in and free of unsafe debris. Even where we have plenty of park space, we are currently lacking playgrounds. Given the current projectory, I predict that if we create the playgrounds and pay just a slight bit of attention to the issue, families will stay, and the school situation will continue to improve. They have done this very well in NYC. This does not mean that we shouldn't continue to work hard on the school issues, those too need to be improved from the administration down, and I agree that having a G&T program is essential, without it, the charter schools will continue to sweep all the gifted and motivated students away from DCPS.

by Danielle on May 29, 2012 1:31 pm • link • report