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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The FCCA's October newsletter is out.

It's not published on their website yet because I suspect they don't want what's in it subjected to wider scrutiny.

The newsletter contains a long screed against the proposed Foxhall Elementary School. Much of it rails against Mary Cheh for her support for the school, but it does contain this very revealing "fact" (which they of course fail to source):

"Whenever it would open, most of the students at Foxhall school would come from outside of our neighborhood. The City's own planning figures show that less than 150 students live within 3/4 of a mile of the school and thus are 'walkable'."

I am very glad that they are finally being honest about the fact that their opposition has little to do with park space, traffic, parking or any of the other canards they've advanced over the past few months. Some people in this part of DC haven't moved on from the 1950s, it seems.[/quote]

I don't believe that's factually true, and I don't know where they would have gotten that info.

I was on the Community Working Group. While DCPS clearly had block-by-block info about where current students live, they guarded that info closely. The most they would say is that the new school would be filled with kids who lived within 1.1 miles, almost all of whom would be closer to the new school than to their current school. So I have to question what the "City's own planning figures" are.

Throughout the CWG process the FCCA representatives behaved as if this was a city-wide facility being foisted on their neighborhood. Even when presented with the facts they refused to accept them. [/quote]

Nothing these clowns have said throughout the whole process is true. Not about the park, not about parking, not about traffic, and not about the composition of the school. I would infer that the FCCA has tried to keep away from the last point, lest it reveal them truly for what they are.[/quote]

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