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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Never met the man, but could it be that that was top of his mind because he gets an earful in Foxhall on those buildings at Q? It was the #1 topic for months for the prospective constituency. Until the schools. So I’m not jumping to any conclusions

But on the schools. Why so much pushback? Who doesn’t want a school? This is like another Safeway. What’s with this neighborhood?! Don’t they have plane noise to worry about?[/quote]

This is what I don't get.

My kids are in college now. When my oldest was 3 we moved into our neighborhood so we could send our kids to the local public school, one of the Ward 3 "good" schools.  We sent three kids to that school, from Pre-K to 5th, and I consider those years to be among the happiest of my life. I have many close friends we met among the parents there, my kids have friends among the students. In my mind our neighborhood is the school, and the school is the neighborhood.

Why would anyone not want that? Why would anyone want to deny that experience to others?[/quote]

People hate everyyyyything. They want everything to stay exactly the same, or be magically changed to fit exactly what they think they are entitled to.

What I don’t get is putting organizing energy into it. Seriously get an life - you’re spending your precious hours on earth protesting A SCHOOL? In our neighborhood they even protested a preschool!

Please, take all that negative energy and go pick up trash or read books to homeless children. Anything but the misery you’re indulging yourself in.  [/quote]

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