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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For people who wonder why DCPS has to cut what seem like essential programs for budget reasons, despite fairly generous per pupil budgets, Bancroft is a great case study.

When I first moved to Mount Pleasant, we used the Bancroft playground for our toddlers and while it wasn't fancy, it was buzzing with a cross-section of the community. Then the city decided the playground needed an upgrade, so it was closed for a long time to install a brand-new state of the art playground, while the school and neighborhood did without a playground for a considerable amount of time. Then a few short years later, that same brand new playground was torn up for a massive school renovation that required students to attend school in swing space outside the neighborhood, and the playground became a construction site for ages -- again. But at least the school was being expanded to future-proof it! But wait.. now it is clear that the massive rebuild and expansion didn't take into account the student population growth, even though it has been on an upward trajectory for well over a decade. So to make space for the obvious capacity problem, DCPS is recommending 
 adding extra classrooms by covering the soccer field, which is an amazing resource for energetic elementary students and the neighborhood alike. By my count, that will be the third time the soccer field will be torn up since I've lived here.

Bancroft is an amazing community despite all of this. But what a massive waste of our tax dollars.[/quote]

Yes, they have a combination of inability to plan and inability to project manage.

For pure dollars, nothing beats Ellington's $150 million renovation vs the $50 million budget.[/quote]

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