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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people in Ward 3 pay a disproportionate share of DC income and property taxes.  Yet when they get the slightest return on their tax dollars, it's derided as favoritism.

Please.  Get off your ass, quit complaining, roll up your sleeves, work your heart out for your school, and stop resenting - and trying to free ride - on the effort  of others![/quote]

This is so wrong headed.  Janney and other successful upper NW schools (ehhklmmos) are not getting more than other DCPS schools nor should they.  There are quality renovations/rehabs/additions happening all over the city.  The vitriol on this thread appears to be amongst upper NW schools, as it reflects resentment by parents (or other interested community members) that their also very successful and overcrowded school has not yet had its promised expansion and renovation.

There is not an entitlement to better facilities that comes from higher tax payments and I do not think this is a common sentiment from upper NW, at least not mong my neighbors.  That is not how the system is supposed to work.  The whole city should get good services.  That said, choices do have to be made and often people will be unhappy regardless of what choice s made, so here we are.[/quote]

Actually, Janney is getting more, much more, than many other DCPS elementaries.  You must believe we are fools to believe otherwise.[/quote]

Hearst is in the middle of a renovation/expansion the community seems very pleased with and I have no reason to believe it is not on par with the Janney renovation or other elementary school renovations that have occurred across the city.  Deal had a great renovation as did Wilson, as did Dunbar and Roosevelt as we have all heard.

I think a rational decision was made re how to add space given the options at Janney.  Janney benefited from the prior renovation because it provided options for expansion that are not available to not yet renovated schools.

Regardless of the choices they had, you think that the decision should have been made to do the crappiest job possible with this project because anything else is not fair to students at other schools that had not yet been renovated.  Even if the decision here has no impact on the timing or funding of other waiting projects?  Does that about sum up your position?

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