Why is the Foxhall Community Citizens Association scared of public school children?

[Anonymous]

This means that the 550-student campus will be built on our relatively small park (Hardy Park and Rec Center).

It's not your park.

So I read that whole thing, and I can't tell what the point was. Certainly there was no "aha" moment where I thought, "hmm, she's got a point, I never thought of that..."

So once again, arguments that seem powerful to Foxhallers are completely unpersuasive to normal people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This means that the 550-student campus will be built on our relatively small park (Hardy Park and Rec Center).

It's not your park.

So I read that whole thing, and I can't tell what the point was. Certainly there was no "aha" moment where I thought, "hmm, she's got a point, I never thought of that..."

So once again, arguments that seem powerful to Foxhallers are completely unpersuasive to normal people.

I agree. This seems like nothing more than pure NIMBY-ism.

I've never really tracked the whole Lab school lease thing but as a SN mom I'm ok with the city supporting SN services, public or private. I know that a number of DCPS students gets private placement there as well. It's a resource for the community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am still trying to understand how the DC budget’s two-school, $100M+ capital expenditures came to be during the summer of 2020 —especially since it was a time when DC (the rest of the US and much of the world) was dealing with the economic, social, and health crises in the early months of the Coronavirus Pandemic. I have been scouring the DC govt website for everything I can find about the “process.”

It’s pretty wild that a group who backed the renewal of a non-bid extension of LAB’s sweetheart Old Hardy lease for - and undercut the utility of that public building to DCPS or anyone else bar LAB by unilaterally having it declared historic - is now concerned about things like “process” and the efficiency of public spending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This means that the 550-student campus will be built on our relatively small park (Hardy Park and Rec Center).

It's not your park.

So I read that whole thing, and I can't tell what the point was. Certainly there was no "aha" moment where I thought, "hmm, she's got a point, I never thought of that..."

So once again, arguments that seem powerful to Foxhallers are completely unpersuasive to normal people.

The arguments are not persuasive to anyone bar a half dozen people who by all appearances have more issues than Time magazine . . .

That said, they’ve done a brisk business in yard signs by hoodwinking half of the neighborhood into believing that DCPS is coming to take away “their” park (despite renderings showing the park will be barely touched by the new school).

[Anonymous]

Who's going to these new schools? Do you all think that everybody in DC wants to send their kids to Ward 3?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey Tammy Wynette, how do you feel standing next to your man? That woman-hating nonsense he quoted to the Post must really make your feel good. But, oh, I'm sure he's different in private...

What does this mean? Sounds pretty sexist

[Anonymous]

I can totally relate to the histrionic snob thing. I've had to deal with one just like that. These folks deserve no quarter. Don't warn, just call the warden on them, DCRA, towing whatever. I've been spoken down to as a "new person/young person" and told oh this is just the way things have been here for 30/50/250 years crap, like i was being ridiculous. I was like this is the law and you are the one violating it. But some of the folks who've been here since before dirt was a thing feel they are in charge and can do whatever they want. My fear is the politicians give in to them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just did a quick google maps survey of the area and came up with a list of schools already in the area (1 mile cutoff)

Schools nearby:
Lab School Campus #1 (0.0 mi)
Lab School Campus #2 - Reservoir Rd (0.7 mi)
Georgetown Day School (0.3 mi)
Montessori School Of Washington DC (0.3 mi)
St. Patricks Episcopal Day School - Macarthur (0.4 mi)
St. Patricks Episcopal Day School - Whitehaven (0.7 mi)
George Washington University - Mount Vernon Campus (0.6 mi)
The River School (1.0 mi)
The Field School (0.9 mi)
Georgetown University (0.6 mi)
Washington International School (0.9 mi)
Duke Ellington (1.0 mi)

Did I miss any? Do we really need a 13th school in a 1 mile radius?

Looks to me like strong empirical evidence that this is a good location for schools.

Shrug. We're not part of the holy FCCA community, but we live a couple of blocks from Hardy Park.

The whole fear of a traffic apocalypse that would be brought about by a new school is nonsense. Traffic issues on MacArthur and Foxhall have never had anything to do with the schools in that area. That's just a drop in the bucket for roads that are commuter arteries from Maryland.

The FCCA people were the types who used pre-renovation Hardy Park as their own personal, off-leash dog park, then got all huffy when people told them their dogs need to be on a leash. To them, the park is a personal playground. If they could get away with it, they'd bulldoze the playground area to keep neighborhood kids out. They're a bunch of fundamentally dishonest, histrionic snobs who are horrified by the idea of public schools kids in their neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

I’m glad you asked as we have a clear answer. The reason is because the FCCA had the building declared “historic” to ensure the city wouldn’t be able to undertake the necessary renovations to make it a public school again.


Why does this mean that the city can't use its own building? Very confusing

[Anonymous]

A lot of these posts sounds a group of Ward 3 NIMBYs argueing with each other. PLEASE!!!! There are many people with worse problems.

[Anonymous]

The FCCA President’s quotes in the Washington Post article are unreal. Surprised the original post didn’t include a link to the article. See below.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-northwest-schools-nimby/2021/08/05/bc5f8084-cebe-11eb-9b7e-e06f6cfdece8_story.html

[Anonymous]

Ward 3 gets all the $$$$$$$$

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I’m glad you asked as we have a clear answer. The reason is because the FCCA had the building declared “historic” to ensure the city wouldn’t be able to undertake the necessary renovations to make it a public school again.

Why does this mean that the city can't use its own building? Very confusing

When asked why the city had renewed LAB’s lease on Old Hardy when it was needed to relieve overcrowding in the local ES, he cited the historic designation of the building. Apparently, this would have complicated the renovations that would have needed to be made to get it to where it needed to be for DCPS to use it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who's going to these new schools? Do you all think that everybody in DC wants to send their kids to Ward 3?

This has been answered repeatedly, the Foxhallers just don't believe the answers.

According to DCPS, Foxhall Elementary will be filled with children who live within 1.1 miles of the school.

If MacArthur School is a high school, it will be fed by Hardy Middle School, which is fed by Eaton, Hyde-Addison, Key, Mann and Stoddert. Plus Foxhall Elementary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of these posts sounds a group of Ward 3 NIMBYs argueing with each other. PLEASE!!!! There are many people with worse problems.

The ES that was/is supposed to be built in Foxhall included a preference for at-risk kids, many of whom indeed have pretty bad problems. The FCCA is trying to stop the school from being built.

There are plenty of people with much worse problems than anyone associated with DC public schools has. For instance, I read the other day that a mother in Afghanistan sold her kid for $500 because she couldn’t afford food.

Should we wait until we’ve solved world hunger before we try to make anything in DC better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who's going to these new schools? Do you all think that everybody in DC wants to send their kids to Ward 3?

This has been answered repeatedly, the Foxhallers just don't believe the answers.

According to DCPS, Foxhall Elementary will be filled with children who live within 1.1 miles of the school.

If MacArthur School is a high school, it will be fed by Hardy Middle School, which is fed by Eaton, Hyde-Addison, Key, Mann and Stoddert. Plus Foxhall Elementary.

And it’s having a high school - which would relieve overcrowding at Wilson - in their neighborhood that the Foxhallers are really fighting. Although they claim this is about a park, their proposal is that GDS campus is used as an elementary and middle school.