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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]

DCPS has done a decent job renovating buildings. I've been to a few other renovated schools and it's a very noticeable improvement in classroom size, often there is new furniture, fixing layout issues. Is there room in the school's average for a gym? Usually phase 1 focuses on classrooms and the main lobby and saves the gym, cafeteria and other spaces for phase 2.[/quote]

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