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Holder has been a disappointment as AG. He had a good rep as a lawyer and judge, but how such a clueless and politically tone-deaf appointee can be the longest-serving cabinet member is beyond me. |
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| As a new GDS LS parent, I am excited about the prospects for uniting the school on one campus. I recognize that not everyone will agree with this, but I like it. Since it is one school, it seems very inefficient and costly to me for the school to have to maintain and administer two campuses that are separated from each other by so many miles and so much traffic. It is also quite inefficient and costly to the parents and their kids to have to drive to the LS campus, which is really out of the way for most folks (not to mention nowhere near any Metro station). The new campus will, I think, be more accessible to many (though, obviously, not all). |
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| I don't see how they are going to make it all fit there. It's going to be really cramped. |
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Agreed. Although the school has tossed out hints about doing commercial development on the Volvo parcel, it's hard to see how everything fits without using the Wisconsin Ave. frontage for academic building needs. |
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In speaking to the parents earlier this summer, Shaw was pretty explicit that the Wisconsin Avenue parcel was envisioned as a revenue source. Obviously, things could change, but the economics don't look good. Selling the L/MS campus might pay for the HS land acquisition but then GDS still has to build the facilities for the L/MS. Then again, I doubt that the revenue stream is likely to be as large as he anticipates (the comparison was to the Gonzaga deal, which involves a larger parcel that was developed as a Walmart plus 300 apartments. |
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In speaking to the parents earlier this summer, Shaw was pretty explicit that the Wisconsin Avenue parcel was envisioned as a revenue source. Obviously, things could change, but the economics don't look good. Selling the L/MS campus might pay for the HS land acquisition but then GDS still has to build the facilities for the L/MS. Then again, I doubt that the revenue stream is likely to be as large as he anticipates (the comparison was to the Gonzaga deal, which involves a larger parcel that was developed as a Walmart plus 300 apartments
Maybe they are going to sell the whole thing and start again somewhere else. |
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| For two environmentally conscious schools that deemphasize athletics, I'm appalled that GDS and Sidwell each devote huge chunks of land to an athletic field. The two schools, are close enough to one another that they could share athletic fields and save land for other purposes such as . . . (crazy idea) . . . academics! |
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You don't know anything about sports, clearly. Schools have about 3 hours of daylight after the academic day in which to fit practices and games for varsity and JV teams for boys and girls in multiple field sports. A school like Sidwell has 8 teams in the fall sharing their fields (varsity and JV football, field hockey, girls soccer, and boys soccer). GDS does not even have field space for field hockey nor do they have football, and field space is still tight. |
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| When will Washington begin to act like a big city? There are plenty of elite urban schools that do not have acres reserved for playing fields. |