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Three years on, and eight and a half years since this saga began, not only is there still no progress on construction or consolidating the campuses, I haven't seen any update on the process from the administration in years.

What could the plan possibly be now? At one point they started plastering the parking garage pickup lane with murals and slogans, as if a capital campaign was imminent, but then nothing.

Maybe the mistake was buying 3939 Wisconsin as the poster above said? But that was rented out to the City Ridge construction for years, so hopefully it wasn't too much of a drag on the finances. Now City Ridge is finished. The school is carrying the Washington Home which is badly underused, and still has to at as a commercial landlord for 3939 Wisconsin during a huge office market downturn (seems like it'd be good to admit it was a mistake and sell, but it's a terrible market for that now.)

I was going to say, I'm not angry about this, just incredulous at the years-long radio silence to parents, and that we all go along with it. I wonder if they even mention any of this in admissions -- is there any hope of it ever concluding, or have they just given up on it ever happening so they don't talk about it? So, I guess I'm a little angry. What is the head of school working on that's higher priority than this embarrassment and financial albatross?

(And please don't come with "there's no impact on finances because it's a different pot of money." You could maybe make that claim at the beginning, if there were major gifts made to handle the transition. It's eight and a half years in, and any money donated for those buildings is fundraising hat could have gone to something else. Plus, we all drove past the equipment every day as they put a new roof or something on 3939 Wisconsin. It's not free to carry these buildings.)

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