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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love the way all the Lafayette people come here with doom and gloom scenarios. Yes, there needs to be proper planning, but there is simply no reason to build another demountable farm further away when a perfectly good one exists.

When was the last time Lafayette students needed to be evacuated to Blessed Sacrament?

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I'm a Murch person, I think swinging at Lafayette is a terrible idea. Why is having 1400 kids on site at Lafayette better than staying on site at Murch?

The arguments I've seen against swinging on site amount to two things: that it's dangerous to be on a live construction site (which Lafayette kids have been doing this year, without any problems) and that there won't be enough play space (which doubling the number of kids on Lafayette's site while leaving trailers on the fields doesn't really address).

I can't understand the loud aversion to swinging on site, but it's a real thing among a certain subset of Murch families. Most of the kids would stay in the building during the renovation. Why is that not preferable to schlepping up to a bunch of trailers on a field for two years? [/quote]

Because the kids wouldn't stay in the building during renovation - all would be in trailers which while not an issue means a serious lack of any other space.  All of the Murch grounds would be covered with trailers up to within 10 feet of the new building being constructed.  As a fellow Murch parent - I don't really see any good solution to this.  I've been against swinging in space mainly because it will take longer and I'd like to get it done as soon as possible. And Lafayette would be a crazy amount of kids in one block.  That said, the real problem is that DGS has continually failed to deal with the real issues or come up with workable solutions.  They just assumed we could swing in space and didn't think over all the details.  Not that it couldn't work but they haven't talked to NPS to see if they could use the land across the street...etc.[/quote]

This is not true, at least according to the deck presented to the Murch SIT in November. The building WOULD stay in use throughout the renovation. I urge everyone with an opinion to look at this deck and make sure it's an informed one: http://dgs.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dgs/publication/attachments/Murch%20SIT%20Meeting%2011.23.15.pdf[/quote]

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