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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]About 10 years ago, Murch had quite a (sort of deserved) reputation for having extremely difficult, unreasonable, and vocal parents.  Not that it's right, but perhaps that has something to do with it?  You need an ally to get things done at DCPS.[/quote]

You could say the same thing about Janney.  In the view of the mayor's office (and initially Mary Cheh), the Janney parents were considered difficult, unreasonable and vocal because many opposed a "public-private" partnership that would have monetized part of the Janney school yard for a condo tower, as the condition to a school renovation.  I happen to think that the parents were correct, because increasing enrollment at Janney shows that the school needs every square foot of its school yard.  It also seemed unfair to expect Janney to "self fund" a portion of its renovation through giving up a portion of its playground, when other schools were being 100% funded through DCPS' capital budget.

Today Janney is on -- what? -- its third renovation?[/quote]

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