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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The parking thing isn't unique to Ellington. DCPS says they must install one at Murch because of zoning, and will be destroying a playground to do it. Doesn't Janney have one too?

Now supposedly the city is saying no more underground parking garages but in the initial waves of building they were de riguer (similar to kilns at elementary schools).

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Underground parking isn't always a waste of money. It depends.

What is clear is that it is a waste of money in this case. T[b]he school should have been moved to a more central, metro accessible location.

The reason it was not is because its political backers like the prestige of the current site and saw the sensible suggestions to move it as being part of The Plan. [/b]

That's as far as I can determine. It is a total scandal, reminiscent of Barry- era DC. 
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Oh come on.   There was every reason to leave Duke where it was, given that it had thrived there for decades.   Downtown real estate and building costs would have been even more expensive than Georgetown.   This continuing irrational effort to tie the location to the inexcusable cost overruns is nothing but snooty Georgetown and Burleith residents who are angry that a bunch of predominantly African American kids have the temerity to attend public school in their neighborhood.[/quote]

Do you realize that you proved my point? I said that Ellington backers are conspiracy theorists about The Plan and then look at what you write, accusing the nearby neighbors of The Plan. 
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Well, since I am PP, and I am a nearby neighbor, I think I know a bit about what I am talking about.

The concern trolling for the poor Ellington students who will have to travel to Burleith in their new school, just like they did in the old school, is ridiculous.  The school has been in Burleith for decades.   Why should it have moved?  Who would have benefitted from the move?  Why were all the neighbors, and none of the Ellington families pushing for a move?  You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to see what was going on here.   All you had to do was listen.[/quote]

Just because the school has been located somewhere for decades doesn't mean it makes sense for it to remain there.  As[b] for who would have benefitted, I'd suggest the students attending Wilson as some could have been shifted to a new Western HS that could accommodate kids from the attendance zine and from across the city.[/b]  It arguable could then open up more seats at Wilson for OOB students.  That's a lot of kids who would have been better off in my mind.   Then again, bizarre decades-old conspiracy theories are much more fun.[/quote]

This idea is a joke.  The proposed new "Western High School" would be a failure.   The same NW families that are rejecting Hardy would reject the new Western HS, and it would be either 4/5 empty, or full of OOB kids - who, just like the Ellington kids, would have to travel from all over the city to get to Burleith.   And what do you think would have happened if the city had tried to renovate old Ellington into new Western HS, [i]and[/i] build a new Ellington?   Take the $100+ million cost overrun...and double it.

There was no reason to move Ellington; the idea of a new Western High School is a pipe dream.   The cost overruns are inexcusable - but are not related to these ideas.[/quote]

If there is no Western HS, the Wilson overcrowding issue can probably be met by shrinking Wilson's boundaries to west of Rock Creek Park and eliminating feeder rights for OOB students.[/quote]

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