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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Putting the high school in the Hardy building and moving Hardy to the GDS McArthur building would have made so much more sense. The Hardy building is a lot more accessible to the rest of the city. [/quote]

Agreed. The Georgetown ANC was adamant that Hardy remain a middle school. Apparently Ellington was also opposed to a high school nearby. [/quote]

If only they could move Ellington...[/quote]

Ellington should have been moved to Shaw or other central location, with the remaining building being recommissioned as a high school.

The hundreds of millions wasted on poor planning will result in a new high school tucked away in a transit inhospitable location meant mostly for white kids from affluent neighborhoods. I am sure the people of Palisades are thrilled to have their own high school that will be akin to Mann Elementary. But for the rest of the city, this is a raw deal.[/quote]

Agree about Ellington but why do you think MacArthur will only serve affluent white kids? Hardy classes are barely 150 each -- with some going private, some to Walls and some moving out of DC altogether, only about 100 or so kids will go to MacArthur each year. So DCPS will have to open up 50-100 slots each year to get to their stated capacity of 1000. There simply aren't enough kids IB that aren't already in the Hardy feeder system that would want to go public -- otherwise they would be in the feeders.[/quote]

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