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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem whatever trade-offs the principal might see as acceptable is that her perspective is unique.  It's simply her place if work.

A large chunk of families who would bear the costs of an absurd swing space are not the same families that will benefit from the future improvements.[/quote]

And this is the biggest challenge that cuts both ways. Depending on what is being asked for (and no it isn’t gardens) could set the school up with a better situation for the next 60 years. But that is hard to take when you won’t see any of the benefits of the renovation and that is a large percentage of the current school body. Current K students would be back for their 4th grade year. [/quote]

This is right but I don't think anyone we have talked to is against the modernization or the timeline its on.  Everyone agrees some pain is to be expected, and maybe you get a year or two of a brand new school, but also kids in the future will benefit.  Our family understands the sacrifice and broader community benefits, and we're ok with that.  So far, I haven't met anyone who is just fully anti-modernization.  That's not a rational position to have at all.

But that isn't really the issue -- the swing space selection is the issue.  The extreme bussing is the issue (not bussing, but bussing an hour to Columbia Heights).  The impossibility of parent drop-ins for volunteering or doctors appointments.  The swing space is causing these things, and it doesn't seem like it's for any good reason at all.

We'd take trailers at RFK.  Or Garfield Park, which was mentioned at one point.

The other problem is that Norah pretty confidently shared two schools that were being chosen between to be swing spaces over the last year.  Neither were great, but they were a lot closer.  Pain, but that's how it goes with a modernization. But neither of them was Meyer, which came out of nowhere and is the worst possible idea.

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