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I recieved this article by email from Martha Damjanovic:

On Wednesday January 21, 2009 there will be a meeting at the Washington Elementary School located at: 520 18th street from 6pm to 8pm

This school has been placed on a hit list to be closed.

The down/midtown neighbourhoods cannot afford for this to happen. How can we become a 24hr family city if we do not have schools for our children to attend. We need to really take stock and find out why the enrollment is down at this school and why at other schools parents are standing in 30 degree weather to get their children enrolled? This school has received several academic awards. The new principal at the school Marilyn Collins has reached out to the community for help. I fear we are dealing with a 30 year old mentality.

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Yvette Lessard

January 18, 2009 | 11:47 PM

Great to see articles like this. Definitely worth looking into, I wish the article was more in depth though...will definitely try to attend, will be interesting!

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Dale Kooyman

January 19, 2009 | 8:59 PM

I wonder how well known it is that the school has won academic awards. i often hear from parents with young children that they "would love to live in the central city" but the "poor schools" is why they don't buy here.

The real reason may be that it is well known that our central city schools are located in a low income area---census data does show we have a very large number of low income residents and 87% of our housing is rental. It could be that parents want their children to go to a school where residents have higher incomes and where there are more home owners.

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Yvette Lessard

January 20, 2009 | 1:59 PM

I did a little research and I couldn't find any awards aside from a No Child Left Behind AYP or something award, and as far as I could tell average test scores were kinda low. Then again there was very little information on the school and I only glanced.

What awards have they won?

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Chrismontoya

March 3, 2009 | 7:24 PM

I have been a parent at this school for over seven years and I can tell you why the enrollment is low-they don't treat families right. The majority of the teachers are ok with the exception of a few but the Principal has no idea what she is doing and don't dare bring up any concerns or you will get a major attitude from her. The Principal before her wasn't much better. It could be a great school with higher enrollment if the school had better leadership.

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