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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that Goulet is an outlier among his fellow candidates. Supporting a football stadium, and being a shill for the Chamber of Commerce is a horrible look.

I will be supporting Frumin, because I think he has the most organic support in the Ward and has the best chance of ensuring that Goulet doesn't win.[/quote]

Frumin has solid credentials but his campaign has been disappointing to many who know him well and had higher hopes. He didn't lose a lot of time in pandering to the Foxhall NIMBYs by offering to pursue alternatives to Foxhall Elementary that he knows (or at least should know) have been tried and were found to be infeasible. The leader of the Save Hardy Park campaign had a Frumin sign on his yard before he replaced with a Goulet sign following their meet-and-greet last Friday. Then there's this silly stuff with the ice rink. Frumin's trying to be everyone to everybody, which makes it very hard to know what he would do if he was elected.[/quote]

I actually read Frumin's description of the Foxhall situation, and my sense is that he feels there are alternatives to wasting money on boondoggle facilities and splitting up Glover Park. If the Foxhall people, who all appear to be going to the Goulet camp, feel that is aligned, that is their perrogative, but in talking to him, it is clear Frumin was at that place long before Cheh even pulled out of the race. You can ask others in the Ward 3 education community, many of them oppose this solution.
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Saying there are alternatives without naming them is like Nixon's "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War.

In the debate over Foxhall, you have people on one side who say, "there must be a better location." These are people who haven't spent any time looking at alternatives, and many of whom have only the barest notion of how DCPS works or even what a neighborhood public school is. On the other side you have people saying "this location may not be great but it's the best we have." Those tend to be people who have spend years and in some cases decades working on public education issues. [/quote]

How are you getting 1000 high school students and the 400 staff and faculty, as well as another 500 elementary school kids into and out of a 2 block area that is already over congested with cars, every morning and afternoon, when there is no real public transportation and no other safe passage?[/quote]

By adding bus routes. Metro runs bus routes specifically for DCPS schools. For example, I'd run a bus route from Farragut North to the school. Google Maps says it's a 6-minute drive over the Whitehurst Freeway. According to Metro it's a 12 minute train ride from Farragut to Tenleytown, so for anyone coming from the east on the Red Line that's a shorter trip than going to Deal or Jackson Reed. Now, it's going to take more than one bus to move that many kids, which is good because it means you can have multiple bus lines. Run another from the Cleveland Park Metro, across Newark to Wisconsin, down Wisconsin to Reservoir and across on Reservoir. Then beef up the D6 on MacArthur.

I'd also fix up the Trolley Trail so that would be an option for kids coming from the east or west. [/quote]

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