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[quote=Anonymous]Down here in the Brent District, parents of little kids are waking up to the reality that the JKLM schools have, in several cases, had classrooms trailers on their grounds for over a decade.  We're expecting our school to become similarly crowded as the years roll by, even if re-districting shrinks our 9-block square district.

Tell us, Upper NW folk, why hasn't DCPS put additions onto your schools if they're bursting at the seams, and have been for years?  Why won't  DCPS build a new ES in Upper NW rather than think in terms of pushing Lafayette families EotP to the Brightwood Ed. campus (where overall DC-CAS proficiency rates are more than 60 points lower), and whatever else they're considering on the boundary revision front?

Why 500 - 700 kids at all your schools, seemingly without plans or budgets to add permanent classroom space to relatively spacious campuses?  Is that right?  Are obnoxious politics all to blame or what?

How do hot elementary schools look ahead 3-5 years to head off the use of trailers?  We don't have room for more than one or two on Brent's postage-stamp sized playground.  But we do have a wing that's just one-story and probably could become two with the right inputs.  Maury, also staring into the crowding abyss, does have room and will get a permanent addition in one or two years.

Thanks for the advice.

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