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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn’t DCPS actually have excess school capacity?  It’s just not in Ward 3.  [/quote]

Yes. Frumin is trumpeting the Intelsat because it is metro accessible. But that's not exactly a plus when no one in the boundary (Hardy MS) that the school serves lives on a metro line. MacArthur is not a great location, but it's much better than Intelsat for that boundary.[/quote]
His goal ostensibly would be to make it a city-wide school in Ward 3, primarily for OOB students, so that Palisades kids can go back to J-R because DCPS is starting a new boundary study. However, I don’t think that’s his real goal because this proposal is so sloppy and ill thought through that it is fundamentally unserious. So his main goal is probably to placate Palisades families to make it look like he’s fighting for them by throwing out this pathetic Hail Mary that lacks conviction. I’m sure Trish Duncan has been chatting with him. [/quote]

I don't think his plan helps anyone except the Foxhall NIMBYs (who have fought tooth-and-nail to keep public school kids out of their neighborhood) and the LAB School (who would get to unify their campus). It certainly doesn't help public school families in the Palisades - or almost anywhere else in the Hardy feeder pattern - as the Intelsat location is in a very different part of the city. The plan makes so little sense that most people assume that there is an ulterior motive driving this. [/quote]

There would be a public elementary school on the former Hardy site, and families from Palisades could likely choose from J-R, the new high school, Ellington or one of the downtown schools.[/quote]
Exactly. Moving MacArthur to Van Ness is unambiguously positive for everyone in Palisades. [/quote]

You either don’t know where J-R and Intelsat are or are bad at sarcasm.[/quote]
Quick question, do Palisades families prefer to send their kids to MacArthur as an in boundary school or would they prefer to send their kids to J-R as the in boundary school?

If the latter, does moving the HS out of their neighborhood help or hurt their goal?[/quote]

Quick Question, does it make sense to have a public school that ONLY the kids who live there can attend because it is mostly impossible for others to travel there via public transport? [/quote]

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