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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Just imagine the backlash if such a school is built (which I think it a ridiculous waste of money for a city that just doesn't have it) and the community doesn't actually use it![/quote]

Ain't that the truth?  And not an unlikely outcome, judging from the Hardy debacle and looking ahead to a better economy and the dawning realization that, for all the hype, Rhee didn't leave DCPS better than she found it.  (Lew's a different story, but shiny new facilities only stay shiny and new so long and if what's going on inside those facilities isn't very impressive, you'll have lots of Ward 3 parents questioning whether they want to stick with DCPS.)  At any rate, Palisades is an insane place for a MS -- it's on the edge of town in an area with minimal public transit (and nasty traffic during AM rush).[/quote]

When the gentry tires of the palisades middle school, it will fill with plebeians, despite the commute, as such schools have in the past. The gentry will feel a warm sense of noblesse oblige, as they watch their school fill up with well-behaved black and brown children.

However, when the next recession hits, the cycle will repeat itself.  These same privileged people will use their advanced degrees to rationalize why those children should leave what is after all, a school meant for their own offspring and paid for with their own higher taxes.  And so it goes.[/quote]

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