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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if i were them i would renovate in phases, get your foot in the door before promised funds are lost.

but, ugh to be at a school under construction for all of elementary...[/quote]

Exactly, I think everyone would rather have it done all at once.  I just don't understand why the NPS and the Historic Society are being so difficult. I probably don't understand the issue well though. [/quote]

That's a canard.  Wilson proceeded with historic preservation input and so do many private schools.  DCPS may be trying to do something on the quick and cheap and stumbled, but it is easily fixed with proper focus.  Meanwhile Janney is proceeding with renovation no 2?  no. 3?[/quote]

Doesn't seem fair.  Half of the kids at Murch are now in portable buildings.  Everyone involved in this project just needs to step it up and get the reno done already.[/quote]

This really highlights the fact that Janney gets a disproportionate share of resources even compared to other Ward 3 schools.[/quote]

Janney has certain advantages.  It's students come almost exclusively from its neighborhood and its parents tend to be active in their kids education and demand quality.  Together, they get the attention of the council-member and others downtown and in DCPS.  Diverse schools with a mixture of IB and OOB students may offer more diversity and achieve other social goods, but political cohesiveness and vocal lobbying.  Janney parents speak with a louder voice because they are concentrated in one ward, one area really, and there are a lot of them.[/quote]

Well that's certainly a theory.  I really hope you are wrong.  It basically sums up everything I think is wrong with the DC school system (and I have a child in one).[/quote]

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