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Isn't PN Hoffman (or somesuch) opening a building in Ward 7?  In a decade nobody who isn't rich or doesn't already own property will be able to afford to live in DC, at least in the portion that isn't across the Anacostia.  Meanwhile, Eastern will always draw from Wards 7 & 8, so it will be poorer for longer than the heart of the city.  [b]Roosevelt seems to be Kaya's newest misguided attempt at an expensive Great White Hope[/b].[/quote]

Where did you get that sense from?[/quote]

Are you new?

Roosevelt is supposed to be the pressure-release-valve for Wilson (just as McFarland is the fantasy pressure-release-valve for Deal).

As we all know, Wilson is at full capacity, and DCPS dearly wishes it had an alternative comprehensive HS, but it does not.  The latest attempt is spending tens of millions of dollars to renovate Roosevelt - a high school with maybe 500 students.  It's going to be "international" but it won't be an International Baccalaureate school.  It's going to have a culinary focus (is this a way of saying a trade school track without actually using the words?).  It's going to cost a ridiculous amount of money and everyone downtown is hoping it can sop up some Crestview residents who don't want to lose the Deal/Wilson path.  It won't of course, but DC taxpayers will get a multi-million dollar bill to satisfy the aging Roosevelt alums in Ward 4.

(Why?  They were all going to vote for Muriel anyway.)[/quote]

There's a big difference between pressure relief for Deal / Wilson and a "Great White Hope", whatever that exactly is.
First, no one is rezoned out of Deal until 2022.  Roosevelt is being renovated for the kids who are there, who are not overwhelmingly white.
Even after 2022, I doubt that the kids who are newly zoned for Roosevelt will be overwhelmingly white.

If you want to complain about a ridiculous amount of money being spent, then look at Ellington.  Would you propose that Ward 4 kids have a shitty facility instead?  (regardless of their race)

You sound like you've got a real chip on your shoulder.[/quote]

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