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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When Proposal B talks about Hardy switching to a "New" high school, it is not clear whether it is talking about a newly built high school or a different high school, which would be new to Hardy students. It is doubtful that DC would build a new school in Ward 3 given the underutilization of other high schools throughout the city. In that case, Hardy would leap-frog over other neighborhoods that feed into Wilson in order to go to a high school to the East.[/quote]

And let's be real.  The only city-owned site of any size west of Rock Creek is Duke Ellington (which has a building but no campus with fields),  And the decision seems to have been made to keep Ellington where it is, despite it's non-central location and the fact that it is no where near the Metro.  The Third District police station site on Idaho Ave, would work for an elementary school but not for a HS, and you'd have to evict the cops.  The logical conclusion is that the "new" high school to which DCPS vaguely refers is no where near Hardy.[/quote]

Ellington is actually really accessible from the red line! The D2 at Dupont Circle literally sits at the metro for 10 minutes each morning, so kids just hope off metro, sit on the bus until it's ready to turn around, and get dropped off at Ellington's door. I myself do this multiple x per week. [/quote]
 
A dedicated, purpose built performing arts school that is centrally located and more accessible to all by Metro would be superior. particularly if it were located near a performing arts complex like Arena.[/quote]

No matter how much logic you throw at the situation I don't think you will get Ellington to move. The school community is really attached to being located in Georgetown and I think they feel that it is not fair to take away their space just because the land is very valuable even fi the student body would benefit from a centrally located school with an easier commute  . I think that nothing short of throwing them a pristinely renovated building (maybe Roosevelt? is that still a school without a feeder system?) would work but not much else.[/quote]

Yes.  :(   It reminds me of when Mayor Williams proposed to move UDC from its brutalist bunkers on Van Ness over to the historic St. Elizabeth's campus.  He reasoned that UDC would be closer to more of its students' homes, and would get a modern home on what looks like a real, ivy-covered college campus.  DC could pay for it by selling the Van Ness site for commercial and residential development,  But Williams didn't count on the twisted racial politics of DC.  Critics warned that it was all part of The Plan, in this case to move a largely black university out of Ward 3.  Never mind that it made all the sense in the world.[/quote]

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