PBS tonight: a year inside Washington Metropolitan High School, 300 Bryant St NW

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From: Angela Robinson

To: BloomingdaleKids@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 10:53 AM

Subject:  Tonight, follow a year inside a DC high school

180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School

follows students and staff at DC Met

(Washington Metropolitan High School, 300 Bryant Street NW)

Monday-Tuesday at 9pm

March 25 & 26 on MPT

http://www.pbs.org/programs/180-days-american-school/

To educators, Washington Metropolitan High School (DC Met) is an alternative school with a devoted staff. To district leaders, it is a failure. To many of the school's students, it is home-a safe haven from sometimes unsparingly difficult lives.

Whatever one's vantage, 180 Days: A Year inside an American High School provides an intimate portrait of this fledgling school's day-to-day stories, condensing a full school-180 days-into four hours (2 two-hour episodes). With a dynamic and charismatic young principal and five remarkable kids at the center of the story, 180 Days invites viewers in for an unprecedented firsthand look at life inside of a school that tries to meet the needs of some of our nation's most challenged students.