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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Turn it into a regular high school like Wilson with an ARTS focus as the side show. Arts at DE are no better than Wilson anyway. What we really need in DC is some relief to the overcrowding at Deal and Wilson. If we have to swallow the huge cost over run then let's make the HS work for many rather than the few 500 of which only half are DC residents.[/quote] [b]The building is only used half the day anyway,[/b] you could add another 500 kids in a general high school with thoughtful scheduling.[/quote] Wrong. The finished building will be used from 8-5 every day. The school day is several hours longer than at the rest of DCPS.[/quote] Indeed, but it each half is only used for part of the day. You could house another high school in the same building. One could be Duke Ellington, and another could be a comprehensive high school with more of an arts focus. People have been pushing for Western High to be reopened to relieve overcrowding at Wilson. Well thanks to the city's blowing nearly $200 million we are building the equivalent of 2 high schools in one spot. Why not use them? [b]Why let a building be half empty, half the time, when Wilson is bursting at the seams?[/b][/quote] PP, you are asking too many good questions. That's not polite here in DC, especially when dealing with local politics.[/quote]
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