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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Ward Five has rightly cited the abundance of middle schools in Ward Six middle schools as unfair. Closing two Ward Six middle schools, and linking it to adding a Ward Five middle school seems straight forward. [/quote]

Why is this straight forward? Not sure why what happens in Ward 6 should have any bearing on whether or not Ward 5 gets a middle school. Many people in Ward 5 want a new middle school to happen regardless of how things shake down in Ward 6. Whether or not they're willing to accept that some schools will need to be closed to do that is another story.  [/quote]

In a wold of absolute resources it might not matter.  But Stuart Hobson wants a huge sum of money (north of $15 million) for its modernization - and they will need it to make SH a top tier school.  Also, Jefferson is up for ~$15 million in modernization in 2013.

Thus, Ward Six has one modernized school (Eliot Hine) and it wants $30 million plus for two more middle schools, all the while these three middle schools under 50% of their capacity and 15% are in bounds.  Ward Five has ZERO middle schools and Vince Gray, Kwame Brown, Tommy Wells and Kaya Henderson have mentioned this over and over.  To suppose that Ward Six operates in its own silo is the kind of thinking that helped get us in this mess and it breeds contempt for the bubbly wine drinking Ward Six set.[/quote]

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