New school in Palisades

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:W 3 is desperate for more school capacity. And this is one of the only possible locations.

But that location is a transportation nightmare.

Sure but the problem with Ward 3 schools is not Ward 3 residents.

The problem with Ward 3 schools is students from all over the city still are getting into Ward 3 schools.

Fix the boundaries so families from Shepherd Park and Crestwood and Mt Pleasant aren't trekking back and forth across the part every day for school and you solve the problem with Ward 3 schools. You could also eliminate all the back door ways OOB kids continue to get into the Deal/Wilson feeders though that would eliminate the rapidly diminishing diversity at Deal and soon Wilson so I'd rather the UMC families from EOTP neighborhoods get booted first.

And amazingly there are recently renovated schools EOTP that are dramatically under capacity that in most cases are closer to those neighborhoods!

But no the DC Council in its infinite courage wants to see if they can cram even more students into Ward 3 schools and are doing this without adding HS capacity.

This is categorically false. The number of kids you're talking about is not a drop in the bucket. This is addressed in every thread, and already has been addressed in this thread. The fact that you can't help but bring it up even though it's false and has been debunked says a lot about you. None of it is good.

You are correct it is not a drop in the bucket despite you stating it over and over whenever this comes up that the number of kids from SP is small. Perhaps all of that driving across the park every day has left you confused about how to use this idiom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:W 3 is desperate for more school capacity. And this is one of the only possible locations.

But that location is a transportation nightmare.

Sure but the problem with Ward 3 schools is not Ward 3 residents.

The problem with Ward 3 schools is students from all over the city still are getting into Ward 3 schools.

Fix the boundaries so families from Shepherd Park and Crestwood and Mt Pleasant aren't trekking back and forth across the part every day for school and you solve the problem with Ward 3 schools. You could also eliminate all the back door ways OOB kids continue to get into the Deal/Wilson feeders though that would eliminate the rapidly diminishing diversity at Deal and soon Wilson so I'd rather the UMC families from EOTP neighborhoods get booted first.

And amazingly there are recently renovated schools EOTP that are dramatically under capacity that in most cases are closer to those neighborhoods!

But no the DC Council in its infinite courage wants to see if they can cram even more students into Ward 3 schools and are doing this without adding HS capacity.

FYI, just in case you were a little bit confused, it isn't morally superior to shit on non-rich white people. They contribute to socio-economic diversity too.

You are really struggling today - lots of working class whites in SP, MtP and Crestwood!

[Anonymous]

The council is giving people what they want.

Most want their kids to go to school in W3

They refuse to send their kids to beautiful new schools in their neighborhood. There is no amount of money the council can throw at those schools to make them attractive.

So they give parents what they want. More W3 capacity.

Its a better use of money than building yet another empty school across the park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:W 3 is desperate for more school capacity. And this is one of the only possible locations.

But that location is a transportation nightmare.

Sure but the problem with Ward 3 schools is not Ward 3 residents.

The problem with Ward 3 schools is students from all over the city still are getting into Ward 3 schools.

Fix the boundaries so families from Shepherd Park and Crestwood and Mt Pleasant aren't trekking back and forth across the part every day for school and you solve the problem with Ward 3 schools. You could also eliminate all the back door ways OOB kids continue to get into the Deal/Wilson feeders though that would eliminate the rapidly diminishing diversity at Deal and soon Wilson so I'd rather the UMC families from EOTP neighborhoods get booted first.

And amazingly there are recently renovated schools EOTP that are dramatically under capacity that in most cases are closer to those neighborhoods!

But no the DC Council in its infinite courage wants to see if they can cram even more students into Ward 3 schools and are doing this without adding HS capacity.

FYI, just in case you were a little bit confused, it isn't morally superior to shit on non-rich white people. They contribute to socio-economic diversity too.

You are really struggling today - lots of working class whites in SP, MtP and Crestwood!

I don't know who's struggling. I complained about the self-righteous shitting on EOTP non-rich white people (white non-rich people) by folks who thinks that kicking them out of their schools is fine since they're white.
I have nothing to do with the 'drop in the bucket' statement or mis-statement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The council is giving people what they want.

Most want their kids to go to school in W3

They refuse to send their kids to beautiful new schools in their neighborhood. There is no amount of money the council can throw at those schools to make them attractive.

So they give parents what they want. More W3 capacity.

Its a better use of money than building yet another empty school across the park.

As I said above, if you want parents to send their kids to "beautiful new schools in their neighborhoods," you need to hook them early, with guaranteed DCPS PK3 slots.

[Anonymous]

Have not read all the comments in this thread. Adding space by adding an additional school should address both the overcrowding in Ward 3 schools and allow more room for OOB kids into those schools, which is clearly desired by families trying to lottery into the schools and the desire for diversity to enhance the school environment. So why are people trying to make comments about stopping EOTP schools from still feeding into these schools if it adds space to reduce overburdening at the middle school level?

[Anonymous]

If you look at a map, you see that the disused Palisades Trolley Trail - which used to link Georgetown and Glen Echo - runs right behind the GDS site. The city could solve a whole bunch of transit issues by revitalizing that trail and linking it to a transit hub in Georgetown. Ideally, it’d become a trolley trail again, but failing that it could become a decent bike route or even a busway. It’s criminal that the city allows that public land to be effectively appropriated by the neighboring (and very wealthy) homeowners while the Palisades remains effectively inaccessible by any means other than driving.

[Anonymous]

Will this open fall 2021?

It makes sense to start it with the grade mix it ia currently configured for - both elem and middle. Then migrate out the elem once the new school is built.

I assume key and mann would feed the middle - 80 atudents is around the current capacity.

Long-term it is questionable as Hardy is closer to Stoddert and Hyde and if I were a parent there I would very greatly prefer Hardys location.

[Anonymous]

There will not be a middle school from only Key and Mann....they could add Hyde, but still not going to happen-that would be a middle school with very little diversity-SES and Race. DCPS would never allow that. And then what high school would it feed?

[Anonymous]

Is there still talk about adding an 'East' HS within the walls of Duke Ellington, utilizing classroom space while Ellington students are in performing arts classes?

[Anonymous]

Alice Deal for All! Another ward 3 middle school

[Anonymous]

I thought the GDS site was just for an elementary school and obviously that school won’t feed to Hardy. Will it? Am I missing something? Why would anyone enroll if it doesn’t feed to Deal?

[Anonymous]

According to a recent Mary Cheh email - the site would be a middle school AND they will still go forward building a new "Foxhall Elementary" on the Hardy rec property. She related it to the specifically to the overcrowding at Deal and this would allow them to still have children from around the city attend ward 3 schools (she used a little more coded language). So, whenever this MS opens, there is clearly going to be new boundary, commute and transportation issues - fasten your seat belts!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to a recent Mary Cheh email - the site would be a middle school AND they will still go forward building a new "Foxhall Elementary" on the Hardy rec property. She related it to the specifically to the overcrowding at Deal and this would allow them to still have children from around the city attend ward 3 schools (she used a little more coded language). So, whenever this MS opens, there is clearly going to be new boundary, commute and transportation issues - fasten your seat belts!

Whoa!

[Anonymous]

Nonsense