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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is nuts. Why doesn’t someone publicize the list of names of this so called representative organization?[/quote]

https://foxhall.org/the-association/fcca-board-members/[/quote]

[quote] Whenever it would open, most of the students at Fox- hall school would come from outside of our neighbor- hood. [b]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.”[/b]
• Originally Foxhall was proposed as a solution to over- crowding at Key, Mann and Stoddert schools. However, in June the City decided to deal with Stoddert’s over- crowding by building out the school, leaving Foxhall solely as a solution to Key and Mann.
• Key and Mann are both currently operating below ca-
pacity. Indeed, [b]Key School enrollment has been flat since 2011 and has actually declined since 2017 (its peak year). [/b]Although there are issues about sufficient cafeteria/common space the school is currently operat- ing well below capacity (even without the trailers) and was so pre-covid. Mann is also operating below capacity and has no trailers.
• All parties agree that there is a need to provide addi- tional spaces for Pre-K students in Ward 3 including Key and Mann neither of which offer Pre-K3. There are no official estimates of how many seats would be needed but projections based on enrollment in schools which do offer full Pre-K suggest numbers of 24 at Key and 54 at Mann.
• Regardless of the type of school chosen, almost all of the students at a new GDS school would come from out of our area.[b] Less than 100 students in DC public middle schools or high schools live in the Key school area. A 700-student school would thus have to draw most of its students from somewhere else[[/b]
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Wow seems like a boondoggle and not well thought out. This will greatly increase the traffic in the area and they are eliminating the park to put in a school. The traffic on Reservoir Road by Georgetown is already horrendous.  I wonder who will gain from this?

Also this does not address the over crowding issues.

[quote] [b]Everyone admits that Ward 3 has school overcrowding, but the most severe prob- lems are at Deal Middle School and Wilson High School. Foxhall does nothing to address this and GDS’s inaccessible location suggests that it is a poor solution to either problem, likely to generate major opposition from impacted parents whose children would be redistricted there[/b]. Moreover, the local Hardy Middle school is operating way below capacity, so it is hard to make the case for GDS as a new middle school.[/quote]

Who are the people pushing this? Must be some rich people over in fox hall. The city is going to spend a lot of money and not address any of the issues.[/quote]

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