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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the last I saw was to start in 2020 with a planning period before that and to last something ridiculous like 5 years while the kids have to go to a swing space.  But then I recently hear they pushed it back again to start in 2022.

It was all in the ranking renovations document that came out earlier this year that I can't put my finger on at the moment.

If it starts in 2020 and lasts 5+ years, my second child will only spend one year actually in Eaton and my first will spend her last 2 years in the swing space.

Totally ridiculous. [/quote]

Why? Do you think you need to be renovated just because?  Obviously, it doesn't need it half as bad as other schools and givne how high OOB is there shouldn't be overcrowding issues.   Totally sane and appropriate to em.[/quote]

I need to add, nowhere did I say I want it renovated. The part I object to is the length of time of the renovation proposed and the 5 year use of a swing space. I would personally rather have my children continue to attend the school as is than to deal with 5 years in a swing space. Is Eaton's space ideal? No. It is almost identical to the school I attended for elementary, with space carved out of every corner to make things fit and such. But a not-ideal space is far more appealing to me than figuring out how to get my children to a swing space 3 miles away when we don't have a car and commute by Metro every day which works only because we can walk to and from the school in roughly 10 minutes. [/quote]

I'm the PP above - and I do agree that five years is insane for a renovation - but I wouldn't get too worked up about that yet.  Get the money for the renovation first.  Though to be fair - it is part of the package.  The whole process is a bureaucratic nightmare and horribly run.  It bites for all of us in DCPS.  Except maybe Janney and Ellington :)[/quote]

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