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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS is acknowledging the real need for new schools in Ward 3 — living in AU Park, over the past 10 years every house sold by an empty nest family/older homeowners has been replaced by a family with young school-aged children.

The trouble is DCPS isn’t engaging in comprehensive planning and the whole process seems as hoc. We have the River School planning to move INTO Tenleytown; meanwhile under one of the options,  DCPS is telling us that Janney kids may end up having to get down to Foxhall/for middle school?!  Huh?????? [/quote]

YES.

DCPS is NOT ENGAGING IN COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING.

This is directly the fault of the mayor and the chancellor.  Why are they not thinking 10 years ahead, while DCUM is?  It’s ridiculous.[/quote]

Yes, unfortunately for D.C. parents, "overcrowding" has been a subject of discussion since at least 2009 or so.  Every year, DCPS under-estimates the number of students in the Ward 3 schools (leading to a shortfall of funding which the PTAs try desperately to make up), and always every year the real numbers are dramatically higher, putting pressure on the principals to move around the deck chairs so that some classes won't have 40 kids.  This silliness has been going on for years, to deaf ears at DCPS.  They just kept doing the same screwy things.  But, FINALLY, the community gets proposals for new schools, which actually have the probability of fixing this problem, AND DCPS gets to keep the boundaries stretching out as far as they want to.  Finally, maybe everybody can be happy (at leas for a while). The new schools are good news, be satisfied with success!![/quote]

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