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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe Murch should cap its enrollment to fit the site?[/quote]

Why would anyone say something so logical on dcum?

I would actually put your very wise suggestion in past tense. They should have capped it about 5 years ago. 
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Exactly. And why the parents of the school don't see this is beyond anyone. They complain about the site not fitting a huge school just fine though. It will be overcrowded before it is complete.[/quote]

Are you kidding? What could possibly make you think we don't see it? More to point, what control do you think we have over it? DCPS just did the first redistricting in decades, and no proposal made Murch a smaller school; their solutions just tried to keep it from getting much bigger--not very helpful when we're already at almost 200% capacity.

The school can't just decide to limit the number of kids. The school community is trying to ensure we get the best possible solution given a very difficult set of circumstances dictated by DCPS (accommodate 700 kids on a city block where only 2/3 of the space is usable). [/quote]

I think the school community could try to limit is size on the margin.  None of the ways would be especially appealing or be easy to get consensus on, but they have some options.  They could reduce the number of PK4 classrooms, consider boundary revisions, and distasteful as it seems, move the autism classrooms to another school.  None of these will solve the problem, but they will ease the pressures somewhat.[/quote]

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