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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has Frumin said he doesn’t support the new high school?[/quote]

He's said he wants to "tap the brakes" and look for other sites [/quote]

That’s Goulet, I think. But who knows? Frumin’s position statements resemble a freely spinning compass. It will be interesting to hear what he has to say on the NIMBYs’ front lawn next Sunday. If he had any principles, he’d insist that it be a joint event with Tricia, but I guess that’s not how politics works.[/quote]

Are you able to read?  Frumin has had his position on the new schools up on his website since before the race was serious.
https://fruminforward3.com/food-for-thought-new-schools/
He also responds to emailed questions, unlike some other candidates.[/quote]

This article utterly fails in taking a position on the schools. For Foxhall ES, he calls for looking at other options like expanding current schools (we have been doing that for decades in Ward 3 and we still need a new ES). For the high school in Palisades, he calls for engaging "the Hardy community and neighbors in the planning for how the school will work both programmatically and as part of the fabric of the community" before opening the school and allowing children to attend.

Community input is good. But we have had that for years on this issue, and this was the solution that the community came up with. This is our best shot at tackling overcrowding at Wilson and other schools in the ward, and it would be insane to walk it back now or wait any longer for more "input."[/quote]

“ Could it make sense to build additions at Key and Stoddert or an addition at Stoddert and a small school, like Ross in Dupont Circle or the Old Hardy, on the Foxhall site? Might it be possible to persuade the Lab School to take over the River School site on MacArthur if it vacates and properly cede Old Hardy to serve the lower Key area? Or might there be a way to buy back the Lab school lease of Old Hardy?”

And after finding a miraculous solution that placates all warring parties in the battle of Hardy Park - a solution that had eluded an 18-year incumbent, a community working group, dozens upon dozens of concerned parents and residents, and the city’s public school infrastructure - Frumin will travel to Eastern Europe, where he will forge a truce between Zelensky and Putin, bringing an end that intractable conflict. After then, he will head to Jerusalem to make peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Once that’s done, he will suck up all the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, reversing global warming . . .[/quote]

What Frumin doesn't seem to realize is that postponing the schools is as good as cancelling them. The money is in the capital budget now, if they get postponed the money will be taken out. Once that happens, getting the money put back in means starting from scratch. Meanwhile the schools aren't getting any less crowded. Restarting the process at this point without a plan is counter-productive.

For these plans to have any credibility they have to be specific things that can executed quickly. Something along the lines of, "if I'm elected on June 21, on June 22 I'm calling the chair of the Lab School board to ask what it would take to get them to give up their lease at the Old Hardy school." I don't think there's anyone who doesn't think using that building would be much better than building a new school right next to it. The city could probably pay Lab $10 million and come out way ahead. [/quote]

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