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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course, the FCCA’s stance has nothing to do with traffic. That is, I’m sure that they’re collectively smart enough to figure out that the traffic footprint of a neighborhood ES on a x-city bus line is going to pale in comparison to the hordes of SUVs that descend upon an expensive private school serving kids from MD and VA. Yet they’ll bend over backwards to make sure the latter stays yet gesticulate wildly about the traffic chaos that the former will bring to their precious Foxhall Rd.[/quote]

No need to include Lab School elementary @ Old Hardy in this debate. A) The school is constantly misrepresented like above. B) Lab School has NO control or outsized influence, despite conspiracy theories of a rich cabal of out of state parents pulling the strings. That. Is. Not. True.

Lease/usage of Old Hardy is, and always has been, up to [b]the mayor and DCPS[/b]. They are in control. They decide. They are supposed to come up with a plan.

A) For those new to the drama, Lab is a[b] special education [/b]school. It was [i]supposed[/i] to have more DC students with [b]diagnosed disabilities[/b]. But DC politics got in the way because of "optics." The school has sought lease extension for maintenance and repairs with NO expansion of 90 kids. Period. It does not get preferential use of Hardy Field and has no field of it's own. Foxhall neighbors locked in strict dropoff/pickup & parking rules. Most MD & VA families use shuttle buses and carpooling. It's not the school's fault that Foxhall folks have gotten used to being entitled to a compliant tenant of the city.

Full responsibility for this whole thing falls with[b] the Mayor, the Chancellor, the Deputy Mayor for Education (who lives IB for Hyde-Addison but sends kids to private),  & Mary Cheh who's been playing all sides for years. [/b]

b) Lab does NOT have some all-powerful cabal of rich parents pulling the strings. That is hearsay and gossip of space-coveting locals who keep bringing it up to distract from the real problem: DCPS ward 3 feeder plan.

Lab is NOT a fancy general education private school like[b] St Patrick's and Field School[/b]. Those two schools recently added campuses on MacArthur near old GDS elementary and have their own athletic fields. They have deep pockets, rich parents from DMV, and ZERO publicly-funded students with disabilities. No idea if they use shuttles or cap # of kids like Lab does.

So please, stop using Lab @ Old Hardy like some bogeyman. If we [i]really [/i]cared about equity for DC kids, we would lobby DCPS to fund DC kids from wards 7 and 8 where there are high rates of special education students. Lab will keep educating kids with language and attention disabilities like it has for 50 years. Hopefully politics and prejudice will allow it to help the District more as intended.

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