Intelsat Building Proposal by CM Matt Frumin (Connecticut Ave/Van Ness)

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Anonymous wrote:The Van Ness commercial district is in desperate need of private sector investment and the dollars they bring with them. The Intelsat building should be filled with potential employers of UDC students . Why can’t our elected leaders develop a package of incentives to make this happen? They always come up with the worst ideas.

Another great idea. Let's give businesses a tax break when DC needs tax revenue.

You will need a hefty incentive to get a private company interested in redeveloping property covered by historic preservation. It's simply not worth the headache.

It doesn't need redevelopment for office space, that's what it is designed for. It is not designed to code for a school, which is significantly different.

It needs redevelopment because a good portion of it isn't habitable. Also, while it was originally office space, it's not the kind of setup that most modern workplaces desire with the pods/towers so disconnected from each other.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I'm not sure DC will need more school capacity until they get the crime problem under control. We're losing residents now.

The DC population situation is someone teeter tottering. But DCPS HS enrollment was up considerably last school year.
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

Something like 10 percent of the students at JacksonReedWilson in fact reside in Maryland,

Gonna need to show your work here.

Ask the kids who they know who lives in "Ward 9."

If this is true, it would really tick me off that an overstretched school is hosting Marylanders.

Why would anyone pick JR over a close in MD school?

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I'm not sure DC will need more school capacity until they get the crime problem under control. We're losing residents now.

The DC population situation is someone teeter tottering. But DCPS HS enrollment was up considerably last school year.
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

Something like 10 percent of the students at JacksonReedWilson in fact reside in Maryland,

Gonna need to show your work here.

Ask the kids who they know who lives in "Ward 9."

If this is true, it would really tick me off that an overstretched school is hosting Marylanders.

Why would anyone pick JR over a close in MD school?

No one would.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I'm not sure DC will need more school capacity until they get the crime problem under control. We're losing residents now.

The DC population situation is someone teeter tottering. But DCPS HS enrollment was up considerably last school year.
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

Something like 10 percent of the students at JacksonReedWilson in fact reside in Maryland,

Gonna need to show your work here.

Ask the kids who they know who lives in "Ward 9."

If this is true, it would really tick me off that an overstretched school is hosting Marylanders.

Why would anyone pick JR over a close in MD school?

No one would.

What school did the family from Suitland (father MPD and mom was I believe a social worker) send their kids to before they were sued by Racine?

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I'm not sure DC will need more school capacity until they get the crime problem under control. We're losing residents now.

The DC population situation is someone teeter tottering. But DCPS HS enrollment was up considerably last school year.
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

Something like 10 percent of the students at JacksonReedWilson in fact reside in Maryland,

Gonna need to show your work here.

Ask the kids who they know who lives in "Ward 9."

If this is true, it would really tick me off that an overstretched school is hosting Marylanders.

Why would anyone pick JR over a close in MD school?

No one would.

No one would leave Whitman for ex-Wilson. But compared to a lot of PG high schools it might seem attractive.

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When I was in HS in the 80's, there were multiple kids in NW who had parents pay to send their kids to BCC to avoid Wilson.

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Same where I lived. But it was the 90's. A few prominent media people did it. And, amusingly, if you needed an ambulance where I was by Lafayette ES, guess who you called? BCC Rescue. And they got there fast. There was a DC fire and EMS house up on Connecticut Ave near Politics and Prose and they could get half a mile before BCC could get there. Sad, but that was DC and its WORSE now.

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Anonymous wrote:This is what he is devoting his energy to?! Not the crime that is devastating the city, or the insane truancy rates, or the fact that we basically do not have a functioning 911 service?
What planet does he live on?

Or maybe help find that woman's dog which was "dog napped" yesterday after she was beaten. The dog is fourteen years old and most likely being used as dog fighting bate as we speak. I hate our politicians!

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I'm not sure DC will need more school capacity until they get the crime problem under control. We're losing residents now.

The DC population situation is someone teeter tottering. But DCPS HS enrollment was up considerably last school year.
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

Something like 10 percent of the students at JacksonReedWilson in fact reside in Maryland,

Gonna need to show your work here.

Ask the kids who they know who lives in "Ward 9."

If this is true, it would really tick me off that an overstretched school is hosting Marylanders.

Why would anyone pick JR over a close in MD school?

No one would.

No one would leave Whitman for ex-Wilson. But compared to a lot of PG high schools it might seem attractive.

This is where people overrate J-R and underrate PG County schools. I presume it’s because folks are white and think PG County schools are as bad as DCPS schools in Wards 7 and 8. If there is any significant enrollment from students in different jurisdictions, it would be DC residents attending PG County schools and not PG County residents sending their kids to J-R.

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Anonymous wrote:This is what he is devoting his energy to?! Not the crime that is devastating the city, or the insane truancy rates, or the fact that we basically do not have a functioning 911 service?
What planet does he live on?

Or maybe help find that woman's dog which was "dog napped" yesterday after she was beaten. The dog is fourteen years old and most likely being used as dog fighting bate as we speak. I hate our politicians!

If only you white progressives cared about violent crime against people of color as much as you cared about what happens to dogs.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I'm not sure DC will need more school capacity until they get the crime problem under control. We're losing residents now.

The DC population situation is someone teeter tottering. But DCPS HS enrollment was up considerably last school year.
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

Something like 10 percent of the students at JacksonReedWilson in fact reside in Maryland,

Gonna need to show your work here.

Ask the kids who they know who lives in "Ward 9."

If this is true, it would really tick me off that an overstretched school is hosting Marylanders.

Why would anyone pick JR over a close in MD school?

No one would.

No one would leave Whitman for ex-Wilson. But compared to a lot of PG high schools it might seem attractive.

This is where people overrate J-R and underrate PG County schools. I presume it’s because folks are white and think PG County schools are as bad as DCPS schools in Wards 7 and 8. If there is any significant enrollment from students in different jurisdictions, it would be DC residents attending PG County schools and not PG County residents sending their kids to J-R.

Yet residents of Suitland have been sued by the city for sending their kids to DCPS. Just speculation, but it has as much to do with convenience of the parents' commute to the city as it does school quality.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I'm not sure DC will need more school capacity until they get the crime problem under control. We're losing residents now.

The DC population situation is someone teeter tottering. But DCPS HS enrollment was up considerably last school year.
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

Something like 10 percent of the students at JacksonReedWilson in fact reside in Maryland,

Gonna need to show your work here.

Ask the kids who they know who lives in "Ward 9."

If this is true, it would really tick me off that an overstretched school is hosting Marylanders.

Why would anyone pick JR over a close in MD school?

No one would.

No one would leave Whitman for ex-Wilson. But compared to a lot of PG high schools it might seem attractive.

This is where people overrate J-R and underrate PG County schools. I presume it’s because folks are white and think PG County schools are as bad as DCPS schools in Wards 7 and 8. If there is any significant enrollment from students in different jurisdictions, it would be DC residents attending PG County schools and not PG County residents sending their kids to J-R.

Yet residents of Suitland have been sued by the city for sending their kids to DCPS. Just speculation, but it has as much to do with convenience of the parents' commute to the city as it does school quality.

One of the more outrageous examples a few years ago was when a DC elementary student brought his parents' heroin to school in a backpack. DC Child Protective Services were called in and the parents claimed there was no jurisdiction because the family resided in PG County!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I'm not sure DC will need more school capacity until they get the crime problem under control. We're losing residents now.

The DC population situation is someone teeter tottering. But DCPS HS enrollment was up considerably last school year.
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

Something like 10 percent of the students at JacksonReedWilson in fact reside in Maryland,

Gonna need to show your work here.

Ask the kids who they know who lives in "Ward 9."

If this is true, it would really tick me off that an overstretched school is hosting Marylanders.

Why would anyone pick JR over a close in MD school?

No one would.

No one would leave Whitman for ex-Wilson. But compared to a lot of PG high schools it might seem attractive.

This is where people overrate J-R and underrate PG County schools. I presume it’s because folks are white and think PG County schools are as bad as DCPS schools in Wards 7 and 8. If there is any significant enrollment from students in different jurisdictions, it would be DC residents attending PG County schools and not PG County residents sending their kids to J-R.

Almost anywhere else J-R would be considered a below-expectations to middling school, but by DCPS standards it's perceived as a good school.