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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it odd that people are freaking out about this. It's a new school, and it will be great! Also, DCPS typically grandfathers in families, so people with kids already in school will get to choose.

When they moved around the Murch/Lafayette/Janney boundaries 8 years ago, it wasn't a huge deal.[/quote]

This boundary change is more like moving the Lafayette elementary school boundary so 1/2 the school has to go to Brightwood. It is an accessibility issue.

If the new school is built it would be bad for people in Glover Park. Stoddert is overcrowd and close to Fox Hall as the crow flies but not by walking or car. The city wants to grab Stoddert kids for the new Fox Hall school and say they are within a mile of the new school. By car or walking(not through the woods) it is 1.5 to 2 miles to the new Fox Hall elementary school from Glover Park. There is no direct travel west because of the Park. Traffic will be worst in the mornings on the already congested 37th and Reservoir because parents will be forced to drive their kids to school. Splitting Glover Park like this will decrease property values. If your house is a 3 minute walk from the closest elementary school but zoned for another school 15 minute by car or 20 minute walk people will not buy that house or expect a big reduction in price.

[b]Most importantly the new elementary school in Fox Hall does nothing to address over crowding and projected growth at Deal and its feeder elementary schools which is the Jackson-Reed(JR)pyramid. JR pyramid is projection to have 2,500 more students vs capacity by 2027. What is needed is two new elementary schools, a new middle school and a new high school in NW. The new elementary schools and middle school are needed in Deal’s boundary not Hardy’s boundary.[/b] Fox Hall is not a densely populated area with projected growth in elementary age children and has a lot of large tracks of land taken up by universities, hospital, Georgetown Reservoir, etc. This will force the new elementary school to draw the majority of it students from farther away vs other elementary schools. The low number of elementary age students in Fox Hall area is easily accommodated within Key’s boundary. There is no need for a new elementary school in this area.

A new high school is not as much a problem at the old GDS site. The main problem would be the public transportation to the new school. Again the current density of the area is low so the public transportation options are not too good. Specially when compared to JR with a metro stop close by. DC would have to address this. [/quote]

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