BPS plan calls for merging two elementary schools in Dorchester and two elementary schools in Roslindale

By adamg on Thu, 04/27/2023 - 1:55pm

WBUR reports on a Boston Public Schools plan to merge the Shaw and Taylor schools in Dorchester into a single school and a similar proposal to do the same thing with the Sumner and Philbrick schools in Roslindale.

Neighborhoods:

Dorchester

Roslindale

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Parenting

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Did they rehire EY to make

By Rwgfy on Thu, 04/27/2023 - 2:24pm.

Did they rehire EY to make this innovative decision?

Merger?

By Sock_Puppet on Thu, 04/27/2023 - 3:36pm.

If you close one school, and put its kids in another school, that's a merger?

My theory (on the Roslindale merger)

By Waquiot on Thu, 04/27/2023 - 7:24pm.

Both schools will close and the kids will end up at the Washington Irving campus. To be clear, I'm not sure if the Irving is large enough to handle both school's enrollment between K1 (or K0 if they are doing that) and 6. If not, I could see either the Philbrick or the Sumner being used as a "lower school" with the higher grades going to Irving. The combined school will be called the Sumner-Philbrick or something like that.

I don't know enough about the Shaw and Taylor situation, but given what's been going on with other "merged" schools, it will probably be a situation with 2 campuses, unless they are that much under-enrolled.

Which school remains open will be based on the value of the property. In Roslindale, I'd say that the Sumner is worth more, so it's a goner. Location, location, location. Also, if the Irving ends up being the campus, that will be very convenient for a certain well heeled family currently enrolled at the Sumner.

Shaw vs Taylor

By Don't Panic on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 3:12am.

This might make sense fiscally but as far as community goes it is a mistake.

The Taylor school is 'over the hill' as we who live on the west side of the commuter rail tracks would say. There's not any beef or anything between folks who live on one side of the tracks or the other but there is a felling that once you go 'over the hill' you are in a different neighborhood. Both schools are great. No need to merge them.

Neighborhoods?

By Sock_Puppet on Sat, 04/29/2023 - 8:31pm.

Don't matter, because Boston doesn't have neighborhood schools.

I wouldn’t be optimistic…

By BPS_nerd on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 1:00pm.

…if I were a parent of a student at the Sumner, Philbrick, Taylor, or Shaw right now. BPS has completely butchered the BCLA-McCormack merger, which was supposed to result in a new or significantly renovated building for grades 7-12 that was promised to open by the 2022-23 school year. Instead, the school has been forced to operate across two campuses nowhere near each other for two years and will continue to do so in 23-24, with no concrete plans from the district about when any real renovations will take place to make the building big enough to accommodate all the students. The current “solution” on the table is to have the school operate out of modular classrooms for the 24-25 school year (and possibly beyond), because otherwise there won’t be enough space for all 6 grades…
https://www.baystatebanner.com/2021/06/30/diminished-hopes-for-school-me...