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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with 13:19.

These endless complaints about Ellington are as racist as they are classist. It's like you can't stand for poor kids from other parts of the city to have access to something nice, much less something nice in your backyard.

The more you spout this trash the less support you will find for your dream school to exclusively serve the 10% of students in DC schools who are white. [/quote]

No Ellington supporter has ever been able to articulate why the school needs to be in Georgetown.

None.

It is almost as if the supporters have some insecurities and don't think the school could thrive outside of an elitist and mostly white neighborhood.[/quote]

Righto!  Ellington boosters cling to their little hill as a "prestige" Georgetown location.

No one has the heart to tell these geography scholars that they are located in an area called Burleith.   :lol: [/quote]

As a Burleith resident, my issue is that the DESA bigwings made their decision on an outdated 1990s mind set.

Did no one tell them that Georgetown is no longer important? The heart of arts in DC is NOT Georgetown. It's a sleepy neighborhood filled with elderly and irrelevant generational wealth, chain stores, and college students.

DESA would have been so much better in downtown DC. Their "neighbors" would have been corporations with deep pockets, Smithsonian curators, major media outlets, etc. We've been to a few performances at DESA and the theater is usually only 40% full. No one is trekking to our quiet neighborhood to watch these insanely talented high school students, aside from their immediate friends and families. These kids could have so much exposure (and $pon$or$hip) in a downtown location, in addition to avoiding the brutal cross-town commute.

It was such a shortsighted failure by all decision makers and frustrates me to no end.[/quote]

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