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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The supporters of keeping Old Hardy public have been using it to bash DME and DCPS as well.

The school-by-school demographic projections are pretty alarming and it's pretty damning that nothing substantive is being planned. [/quote]

You mean the neighborhood growth data for specific schools? I thought this was supposed to be about citywide facilities planning strategies for public and charter schools. The recommendations are more about changing how planning is done.

Those Old Hardy people keep forgetting they're part of a an entire city. Some 75% of public students don't attend in-boundary schools, including the roughly 50% of all public students in charters.

Ward 3 has the second smallest public enrollment after Ward 2. If a couple of language immersion or STEM charters open in Ward 3, those neighborhood school class sizes could plummet.

Wilson and feeders are overcrowded, we get it. That is and should be of concern from a safety perspective. Temporary measures can address that. Remember, using trailers has not negatively impacted achievement in Ward 3 at schools like Mann, Key, etc.

Ward 3's problems are [i]different[/i] from and, in some ways, the opposite of those in the rest of the city. Different, but not [i]more important[/i].

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It is true that school in the Wilson feeder pattern (which include schools in Wards 1, 2, and 4) have different problems with overcrowding.  But portables are no longer the answer because in most places they don't have any place to put any more portables.  They have maxed out the space.  It is just silly to not use Old Hardy when DCPS owns the building.  DCPS will have to do something, and everyone in the city (except maybe the Lab School) would better off if we used public resources that we, as taxpayers, already own, instead of spending money that we don't have to.[/quote]

So what sensible solution helps with the Wilson and Deal overcrowding that The Old Hardy building could help with?  They should just turn Hardy Middle into an Education Campus. Sned Bancroft to Cardozo middle or CHEC.  People will rage, but problem solved. [/quote]

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