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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a Janney parent, nor a prospective Janney parent.

But the cold, hard reality is that Janney's projected numbers demand an addition. Period. If you can't acknowledge that, then there is no possibility for a rational discussion.

Do other schools' projections warrant additions too? Yes. Mann is a worse situation than Janney. It is getting an addition. Murch and Lafayette are also severely overcrowded. I believe they're both on the docket for additions too.

People crowing "but what about my neighborhood school that's old but under capacity..." deserve little more than "sorry, but money is tight and we have to spend it where the enrollment dictates the best value. Goodbye."

This isn't hard to understand, folks. And it ain't no scandal either.

Again, I am not and will not be a Janney parent, so I'm arguably in the same shoes as the negative Nancies here. [/quote]

I'm sorry.  I know that you think you are making a reasonable argument.  I appreciate that.

But in the short term, if Janney has to have a few trailers so be it.  Other schools even those scheduled for renovation have large numbers of trailers.  About half of my school is in trailers.  We've had to fight hard to get our renovation to even move forward.  Janney is scheduled to break ground on its second renovation before our first even begins.

And over the longer term, the project numbers don't demand an addition, they demand boundary changes.  That is the entire point of boundary changes -- matching enrollment projections to resources.  To make the point in the extreme, if the enrollment projected 10,000 kids in Janney's district, you wouldn't build a skyscraper, you'd change the boundaries.

So yes, we are all reacting negatively, and perhaps with the usual DCUM abruptness.  But the points are still valid and still quite reasonable.[/quote]

+1 I second this reasonable response. Trailers should have been done until boundary changes. Underlying the anger here is a rational argument.[/quote]

Perfectly stated.[/quote]

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