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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a Lafayette parent who is vehemently opposed to the idea of moving the entire school to our trailers for 2 years.

[b]HOWEVER - what if they only moved part of the school? PK-1 or whatever. They would then need less trailers at murch, would only need some of the Lafayette trailers, thus allowing the  play space to be rebuilt and some of the field to be reclaimed...
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Agree with this.  They could move families north of Murch to Lafayette and south of Murch could swing on-site or go to Chesapeake Park.  Or the upper grades could stay at Murch and the lower ones go to Chesapeake.  Or the north families use Lafayette trailers and the south families use the Hearst trailers.  An influx of 300 students is a lot less daunting than an influx of 600.[/quote]

And which teachers would go where? And would DCPS provide a second set of teachers for music, art, PE, library, Spanish, world geography, lunch staff, security, special ed, ELL, principal, vice principal, counselor, custodians, reading specialist, math specialist, science specialist, nurse, lets see, what else would they need two of?

Splitting the school into two or more parts sounds simple enough if you don't know how a school runs.

By the way, DGS and DCPS are in fact considering options for splitting the school by grades, which will be "awesome" for families with kids in several grades. One idea had 5th grade moving to Deal a year early. Now lets hear the Deal community shut its boarders to Murch kids. [/quote]

If they moved pre-k and k to forest hills, this doesn't feel so crazy. There's already a designated pre-k specials teacher. If he could take on k, as well, that helps a ton. And forest hills is just a few blocks from Murch, so double drop-off is less onerous (as is aftercare). And the forest hills playground is perfect to younger kids.[/quote]

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