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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously.  Every school that has gone through a renovation has experienced the same exact madness with the process.  Murch is not special.  Relax.  Stop whining and just push through each issue. It will get completed.[/quote]

They aren't whining. Answering people's questions by stating the facts is not whining.

In fact, entire push to modernize the schools across the city started in 1997 when Murch was supposed to be renovated. Instead, Murch parents got a grant enabling the city to review the conditions of all schools, and urged the city to undertake the process of modernizing all of the schools.

"We thank the Murch Elementary School parents, Murch teacher Deborah Ziff Cook, and
especially principal Dr. Marjorie Cuthbert. [b]They made this report possible because of their
willingness to look beyond the many pressing concerns of their own school to the needs
of the entire district.[/b] We would also like to thank Mary Gill, principal of Murch Elementary
School from 1984 to 1998 and current chief academic officer of DCPS, for her strong
support of the early activities of this project."

from "Replace or Modernize? The Future of the District of Columbia's Endangered Old and Historic Public Schools" May 2001.

So while other schools advocated for themselves, Murch advocated for everyone across the whole city. Is that the "whining" you are talking about 15:04?  So maybe we should all thank Murch for getting the ball rolling in the first place and acknowledge that pushing Murch back in the process over and over and over again for the past 15 years is not quite the same as what other schools have been through, especially under the circumstances faced by double the number of Murch kids 15 years later.[/quote]

Thank you for posting this.  Very interesting.  [/quote]

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