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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't like GDS for valid reasons. What might be an alternative plan? In a recent communication  DCPS asked.of anyone had other ideas of where to locate the new high school. [/quote]

Oh, I know!

The solution is kick Lafayette out of the Deal/Wilson feeder!!

But what about Shepherd Park, they are farther away?

Ok, kick them out too!

But I don’t want my kids to travel that far. DC has neighborhood schools!

Now, I’m going to call you racist and privileged!

REPEAT AD NAUSEAM.

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Yes Yes and Yes.

One small step for ending the Hunger Games of EOTP vs WOTP lotteries and angst because DCPS has only "one" viable MS citywide. One giant leap for "Alice Deal for All."  Without a new MS at GDS and new HS at Hardy, any Lafayette/Shepherd shift felt pointless, a drop in the bucket that wouldn't address the bigger demographic and OOB realities, but new HS capacity confirms DCPS is taking a smart, conciliatory approach to increase accessibility rather than force people to go to Coolidge.

UMC Lafayette and Shepherd DCs will thrive there no matter what, but so much community-wide value to creating another stable, desirable neighborhood MS in NWDC (not Ward 3 but still NW... which ward is CCDC in again?)  Just a decade ago, no IB at Hardy, but today, many new young families and changing attitudes in GP and Burleith.  COVID showed it's always easy for us keyboard warriors to yell fire at a moment's notice with "I'M GOING PRIVATE" but private/parochial seats are limited and don't grow on trees.  When this works out well, we'll end up with two or maybe even three good MS instead of one or 1.5 (Hardy).

Once upon a time, one could understand the horror at going EOTP, switching boundaries.  NEWSFLASH - Marion Barry is no longer mayor and DC is much whiter, safer, and gentrified - one of the wealthiest "urban" cities in America.  Full stop.  Lots of good, some bad with the changes, but a lot of the DCUM handwringing justify the "Upper Caucasia" term.  Wells is not/not Woodson or Ballou in the 80s.  It's a beautiful new "urban" school, great leadership, and a rising tide.  Nobody's DC is getting shot at Wells in 2021.  And speaking of "urban" isn't that exactly what everyone in CCDC prides themselves on compared to "suburban" CCMD just across Western?  Don't worry, Rock Creek Park ain't going nowhere and nobody's forcing DC to go to Coolidge (Push some Wilson kids to the new Hardy HS problem solved... for now.)  :mrgreen: 
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