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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Kingsbuty site was never designed to be a school. It was a private mansion.

It has been a small, specialized school for a couple decades which has fallen on hard times economically.

LAMB would be a very different beast and despite assurances about people using transit I assume 90% of families will drive. Maybe they will give up the requirement of kids being escorted in by parents in favor of a drop off line. But dropoff and pickup will be a major pain for the neighbors. [/quote]

History is important to know, but it doesn't mean things can't change. Schools move and buildings are repurposed.  I do think it would be best to move in gradually.  But your position of demanding that things never change from how they were is just unreasonable.[/quote]

This. What do you believe is the best use of the site? [/quote]

I posted earlier.  I think LAMB should go in there.  It should be capped at 300-400 pending a couple of years of run time showing that it works at the site.  There should be a publicly elected person (mayor/council) in charge of sorting through feedback on that and determining that the cap should be lifted.  Financing should be arranged through the DC government and the charter school facility fee so that we're not at the whim of banks and mortgage rules.

The only downside I see there is that LAMB puts itself at the mercy of the DC government.  But I think that's a reasonable trade off for a public school working with public funding.[/quote]

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