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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's great 21:44. Then let lab school build a school from the ground up. Or purchase a building.  Not crazy -- the other SN schools have done this, and so have certain independents that have only come into existence in the past ~50 years. Burke, field, gds, Sheridan's new iteration. [/quote] The [i]actual[/i] DCPS Hardy building is completely renovated and less than 20% in-boundary. Is Lab School leasing the property DCPS hasn't used in years or getting it for free? How much would it cost DCPS to gut the current building (no cafeteria or gym, less than 200 kids) and convert it to a viable DCPS school of 400?  The DCPS website may not be 100% correct, but these are the numbers that have to be looked at in light of spending across the city and not just in ward 3 (where I live with two children). In no particular order, Key (375, 84% IB), Mann (286, 87% IB), Stoddert (368, 84% IB)schools, Hyde-Addison (332, 37% IB)

It's not that our ward 3 children don't deserve a good school close to home. However, as a (high) taxpayer, I don't see how a decent sized DCPS elementary school on Foxhall could be filled in the area without cannibalizing the other elementary schools in the immediate area. A middle school? Maybe we should discuss this when Hardy is more than 40% in-boundary.

Before we spend more public money to improve the elementary school convenience of [u]some [/u]of us, I'd rather see our (my) revenue spent on balancing resources across the middle and high schools that could benefit [u]all[/u] of our children in DC. Tearing down and rebuilding the Lab school Foxhall site would do little to increase the overall capacity of public schools in the face of charter school growth.

DC is not MoCo.[/quote]

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