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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't live in Bloomingdale, but i could see this,.  I'm a huge fan of neighborhood schools, but an even bigger fan of neighborhood parks.  If Bloomingdale didn't have a park and the neighborhood school was underenrolled-- espeically  if the school was populated with OOB kids whose parents drove them in to the school, increasing traffic in Bloomingdale-- I could see it as "not such much losing a school as gaining a park".[/quote]

This is pretty much how it was sold.

Gage-Eckington is the school that closed. Checkout this map and note that the current "Park at LeDroit" was the site of an elementary school that served Bloomingdale: http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Boundary%20Maps%20-%202009/DCPS-Attendance-Zones-Elementary-Grades-September-2009.pdf. Langley isn't even on that map & the map is from 2009, so probably you are right that those kids are now zoned for Langley.

And yes, that ANC commissioner was no doubt looking at the 100 block of N St (I think that's where JF Cooke is) nearby at the former school buildings there that have been boarded up forever. I have no idea if that ANC Commissioner is still around, but she considered it a triumph. And it is a great park, with a fabulous community garden. But it's not a community school.[/quote]

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