WASHINGTON MET STUDENTS SEEK SUPPORT BEFORE JANUARY DECISION ON CLOSING
The January 9, 2020 show of Education Town Hall featured four current students at DCPS’s Washington Metropolitan high school in studio, talking about their journey, and that of their fellow Washington Met students, since learning right before Thanksgiving that DCPS proposed closing their school. They are
Lyric Johnson, 16 years old
Na’Asia Hawkins, 18 years old
Travius Butler, 17 years old
Angel Johnson, 19 years old
The students explained that Washington Met alone of DCPS’s four opportunity academies contains a middle school and thus is the only place in the city that ensures that students from middle school years up who have not found academic success at other schools will have a pathway to graduation. They noted that the DCPS chancellor has said the decision to close the school—first announced before Thanksgiving—will be made by the end of January. At the few public meetings about the closure, students have said that they have never gotten satisfactory answers as to the reasons for the closure, noting that students who attend will naturally have issues that students at other schools will not—and that no one seems to be taking that into account.
The students made clear that the school has provided a safe and welcoming haven for them, CONTINUE READING: Washington Met Students Seek Support Before January Decision on Closing – Education Town Hall Forum