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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with 13:19.

These endless complaints about Ellington are as racist as they are classist. It's like you can't stand for poor kids from other parts of the city to have access to something nice, much less something nice in your backyard.

The more you spout this trash the less support you will find for your dream school to exclusively serve the 10% of students in DC schools who are white. [/quote]

You miss the point: overcrowding at Deal (and also Wilson).  If there's an attractive HS alternative to Wilson, then it would drag students into Hardy and then to the new Ellington High.  It would relieve overcrowding in the Deal-to-Wilson track.  Also, while we're on the subject of under-utilized capacity, then the current Duke Ellington-only-arts-school program sticks out like a sore thumb.  They've got thousands of square feet of school, but a small number of students, many of whom aren't D.C. residents.  There's no reason why arts-track students could not be mixed with normal-track students in the new Ellington School, as a proposal.  The new Ellington would still be very predominantly African-American, btw, as race seems to be an obsession for many.[/quote]

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