Bill Turque reports that on Wednesday, District officials will cut the ribbon on the new $102 million H.D. Woodson Senior High School in Ward 7 and bid adieu to the campus Turque writes had “the look and feel of a penal institution rather than a high school.”

We have to admit, when we first started watching this C-SPAN video of RNC Chairman and D.C. native Michael Steele talking to students at H.D. Woodson Senior High School, we were ready to scoff. Really Michael Steele, we wondered, do you actually want to tell students in DCPS, where only one out of ten students ever graduate from college, that while at Johns Hopkins, “I partied my behind off,” and “I heard there were classes”…