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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I seriously didn't see what the issue was with Eaton's building.  Why is everyone so horrified by it?  It seemed totally functional.  A shiny building will make no difference in my child's education.[/quote].

The building is not horrible but by any measure it's pretty antiquated. In fact with renovations getting underway at Lafayette and planned at Murch, Eaton will have the oldest physical plant of any of the ward three schools.  The Library needs modernization and the entrance for the school is dark and uninviting.  Eaton already ranks quite low among the DCPS schools in square feet per pupil.  On election days when the current multipurpose room is used for voting , students have no place to eat no place to play.  It could certainly use new gymnasium or multipurpose facilities, possibly buried under the playground in a cut and cover construction.  Parking for faculty and staff needs to be addressed long-term as they did Janney where they put a garage under the playground.  Right now Eaton faculty are forced to plead for visitor parking passes from neighborhood families[/quote]

I went back for a reunion (I'm an alum) and agree the school could use some freshening. And faculty should be allowed to park on the playground or somehow get parking permits. But the cafeteria/gym/theater room worked fine. There were less students there when I was there though, I thin - about city to sixty per grade. Are there more now?[/quote]

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