DC council giving away DCPS property to Lab School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC Lab parent here. Our kids are IB for an overcrowded, high-performing Ward 3 school. One child does fine. The other got shafted by incompetent school staff, we were lied to by DCPS, got threats from DCPS lawyers, and got bumped around to a different school every year for 3 years.

We didn't want to go to Lab. Our child had to.

PP, who are you? Have you spent time in the school? Do you have any experience with students with learning disabilities?

This has nothing to do with the Lab School. Certainly it has nothing to do with whether the school is a good school, by all accounts it does an excellent job.

[Anonymous]

Yes let's give the property to a charter school...lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes let's give the property to a charter school...lol.

We would love to see a charter there. And a charter would pay more in rent. A win for dcps students.

[Anonymous]

I cant believe that anyone thinks it reasonable to give Lab an entire building for free on top of over $40K per year per student. We are only talking about 37 students. An entire building is an excessive pay out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes let's give the property to a charter school...lol.

We would love to see a charter there. And a charter would pay more in rent. A win for dcps students.

Another decent middle or Hs would be fantastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes let's give the property to a charter school...lol.

We would love to see a charter there. And a charter would pay more in rent. A win for dcps students.

Another decent middle or Hs would be fantastic.

MS won't happen. There's currently an undersubscribed IB middle school.

However, I would fully support a second IB high school in the area since Wilson is enormous.

[Anonymous]

NW Current has a front page story today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NW Current has a front page story today.

http://www.currentnewspapers.com/admin/uploadfiles/NW%2003-15-2017.pdf

The Lab School has earned support from Mayor Muriel Bowser to extend its long-term lease of the former Hardy School in Foxhall — though negotiations betweenthe school and the city aren’t finished, and some D.C. Council members have rejected Bowser’s approach to the process. The special-needs program has occupied the old Hardy building at 1550 Foxhall Road NW since 2008. The council tried in 2013 to establish a longer-term lease with the Lab School, but the matter went unresolved until December 2016, when the council voted 11-2 to authorize the mayor to extend the lease by 20 to 25 years.

[Anonymous]

Have any of the opponents actually been in the building? Have there been any independent architects' assessments?

Friends of mine on that street told me there are a lot of neighbors who don't want anything but a school (no condos) and capped at current size and with current restricted, heavily monitored traffic and parking. They keep a close eye on Lab. They basically want status quo as long as possible.

That seems in direct conflict with people who want the building or land for larger purposes, i.e. middle school or new building.

Are there any viable short-, medium-term options other than leasing to Lab and having them pay for repairs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Are there any viable short-, medium-term options other than leasing to Lab and having them pay for repairs?

Wouldn't it be great if there was some kind of way that people could get together and explore ideas and share information? You could call it, "a meeting."

No option other than the give-away lease has been explored. That's the beginning and end of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have any of the opponents actually been in the building? Have there been any independent architects' assessments?

Friends of mine on that street told me there are a lot of neighbors who don't want anything but a school (no condos) and capped at current size and with current restricted, heavily monitored traffic and parking. They keep a close eye on Lab. They basically want status quo as long as possible.

That seems in direct conflict with people who want the building or land for larger purposes, i.e. middle school or new building.

Are there any viable short-, medium-term options other than leasing to Lab and having them pay for repairs?

I'm sure the neighbors of every DCPS school would rather it have capped enrollment and heavily monitored traffic and parking. Fortunately the immediate neighbors don't get to decide because then we'd never have schools anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are there any viable short-, medium-term options other than leasing to Lab and having them pay for repairs?

Wouldn't it be great if there was some kind of way that people could get together and explore ideas and share information? You could call it, "a meeting."

No option other than the give-away lease has been explored. That's the beginning and end of it.

The only funny post on this thread that has gone on for months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are there any viable short-, medium-term options other than leasing to Lab and having them pay for repairs?

Wouldn't it be great if there was some kind of way that people could get together and explore ideas and share information? You could call it, "a meeting."

No option other than the give-away lease has been explored. That's the beginning and end of it.

The only funny post on this thread that has gone on for months.

I thought 14:51 on the previous page was pretty good too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are there any viable short-, medium-term options other than leasing to Lab and having them pay for repairs?

Wouldn't it be great if there was some kind of way that people could get together and explore ideas and share information? You could call it, "a meeting."

No option other than the give-away lease has been explored. That's the beginning and end of it.

The council cronies know their position is indefensible and are too chicken to hold a meeting.

That is a pretty common problem faced by politicians these days. Arent they supposed to work for us?