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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I guess you missed the part about all of the points you enumerated as comprised of little other than bovine excreta. Please don't consume it or, even worse, spread it around. Its not particularly good for your health or anyone else's.[/quote]

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