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Eastern High School on Capitol Hill underwent a $75 million dollar renovation? WTF?
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Anonymous
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Maybe there is better use of this money? Like maybe hiring a private tutor for every student in the school? Like maybe paying for college for every kid on Capitol Hill who graduates?
Seriously does anybody else think this is totally ridiculous? My kid's school sends 3 year olds to the principals' office because they don't have enough counselors, and the nurse is only part time. This ridiculous figure included a built in daycare center for the high school students. I think that is a lovely idea, but not sure I want my taxes paying for that when my kid is not receiving a decent education.  
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Anonymous
No. This renovation has been planned for years and is old news. |
Anonymous
| It was also desperately needed. Frankly OP you may think it was wasted on poor kids but how much are the spending at Wilson or SWW that has a lot fewer kids. |
Anonymous
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The daycare that you're raging about wasn't requested by the community but installed at the request of Rhee. From what I hear all of the renovated high school's are getting them. Wilson's renovation is skyrocketing towards $120 million so please keep your ramblings in perspective. As someone said, this was planned for over a decade.
And one more fact, Eastern doesn't serve just Capitol Hill but all of Ward 6 and some components of Ward 7. Geesh!! |
Anonymous
| This renovation was long overdue. I am annoyed at the excessive and incessant renovation of top privates, STA, NCS, Sidwell, GDS, etc. DC public school students deserve to walk into a building that has been modernized. Eastern's renovation simply brought the building into the 21st century, even though it doesn't have a rock climbing wall. |
Anonymous
| Jeeze OP, are you just climbing from up under your rock. You talk as though you know something about the neighborhood schools east of the park. Did you ever walk in the halls of Eastern prior to the renovation. Did you raise a ruckus when Eastern students endured winters with broken boilers and summers without air condition. Did you see the gym or the auditorium. If you can say yes to any of the above, please slither back under your rock. |
Anonymous
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I am not sure why the private schools are being brought into this discussion. Kids deserve to have excellent school facilities regardless. The Eastern renovations, as has been noted, have been planned for years as part of a Billion dollar deployment for facilities upgrades.
It is long overdue, just as it has been at Wilson and other schools. |
Anonymous
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OP, please get a grip. The relaunching of Eastern has been underway for about 3 school-terms. If you think Eastern wasn't deserving for a $77 remodeling then you must be going ballistic that Woodson is being rebuilt for $110 million.
Yes, the daycare situation has taken all of us back, because the plans on the architectural drawings were never designated as a daycare. When questioned, it was always referred to as miscellaneous space. The misguided notion that a certain percentage of female students attending Eastern were pregnant was not correct. The dialogue about the baby-boom era on Capitol Hill was literally interpreted to be that Eastern was going to be over-run book-bags and babies. LOL You know DCPS and their data, it's a daily crap-shoot. If you want to have a genuine concern about your WTF moment about Eastern, then try ensure that everything that was promised for the relaunch is actually provided. This issue of build it and they will come, will never amount to anything if DCPS doesn't hold their end of the bargain. May I ask this, when the Eastern population was residing in the modules last year, what was your thoughts? Also, Eastern just had over 140 students graduate from this $77 million dollar building this past Friday and by all accounts they were from tax-payng homes. |
Anonymous
| Wow this is the biggest consensus I've seen on DCUM....OP is an idiot. A very late one at that. |
Anonymous
| Not just an idiot but maybe this person is like the Geico commercial reference of "living under a rock." |
Anonymous
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Are you certain that the "day care center" doesn't serve an educational purpose? For example, my aunt taught child development classes for years in a suburban HS. They had a "day care center" a/k/a a child development lab that was open to the community's children, and gave the students opportunities for education, training and observation.
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Anonymous
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I think these expenses are stupid. The building may change, but the teachers stay the same. What's the point?
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Anonymous
What school does your child(ren) attend? |
Anonymous
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19:19 - you are clearly delusional with some personal gripe against Eastern - you're really revealing yourself on this forum. It's a very small world indeed.
Eastern's entire teaching staff will be new to the building with the exception of the outstanding art teacher and the health academy coordinator. Like a previous poster said, where was your gripe when these children were huddled in trailers for almost three years. Where was the outrage?! I guess as long as Wilson got a reburbished UDC building and their modernization costs almost $50 million more than Eastern you're content. And NO, as DCPS Central has stated, the daycare centers will be placed in all of the renovated comprehensive high schools save Wilson. They are for students and possibly staff ONLY. Not the community! |
Anonymous
| 20:25 - I believe she's a Wilson parent that resides on the Hill - small world indeed! |