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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]They can be in trailers on the Murch site. That is perfectly viable, but parents don't like it.[/quote]

This.   The audacity of assuming that the school population should storm a private church and tennis court/ball field/playground offered [u]to the entire city[/u] -- and take them out of commission --  is rather entitled.  But the Murch parents don't even hear themselves talk.

Just stay where you are, accept that you don't need that much play space, anyway, because as a DCPS there frankly isn't many minutes of recess, and be done with it. [/quote]

Wow...just wow.  Murch has gone so long without renovation and been pushed aside repeatedly for Janney and Lafayette.  Not saying we are entitled to anything but right now we're just trying to figure out any solution.  And it is not perfectly viable.  Viable yes but far from perfect.  And maybe you don't ever go by the Murch playground during the day but it is rare that there are not kids out playing - recess, PE or even just a class project.[/quote]

The idea that Murch is calling the shots here is laughable. Murch has been at the mercy of DGS, DCPS , and city politics for years. The Murch SIT has been nagging DGS and DCPS about swing space since its first meeting, which, incidentally, was five years ago. Murch is not to blame for this foot-dragging.

The school is operating under some unique constraints -- a huge in-boundary enrollment and very limited space as the National Park Service owns 1/3 of the Murch site and will not permit the city to build on it. This isn't about entitlement by Murch families. Far from it. This is about making sure that 600+ kids can get through the next two years of elementary school in an environment that is safe and conducive to learning. If DGS and the builder can demonstrate that swinging on site can be done safely and with minimal disruption, great. If not, DGS has to find another solution. Since the city has already erected a temporary school on city land at Lafayettee, it seems silly to dismiss that option out of hand. Not that it's a perfect solution by any means. It's only one of several highly imperfect scenarios being explored. Nobody is out to "storm" anything. Sheesh.

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