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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're trying hard to move a 30 million dollar plus renovation, planned for 2021 by DCPS and Bowser, up by a few years, and to build relationships with admins and the Jefferson parent organization.  All fine, it's the feeder problem that seems unworkable in under a decade.  Not nearly enough strong students in the pipeline from Tyler heading to Jefferson, and none in-boundary from Brent.  Also no 5th grade at Van Ness for another five years.  [b]If Brent, Maury and SWS[/b] fed to the same DCPS middle school, we'd have another Deal soon.  But nobody much lobbied for that several years back, and DCPS wasn't amenable anyway.
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No one is amenable to that because picking those three schools out of the hat doesn't make any sense.[/quote]

If you look at the feeders for Hardy it's all relatively affluent neighborhoods.  It hasn't taken off because it's probably too affluent for public schools.  That's slowly changing as more students from feeders are staying.  Key, Mann, Stoddert, Hyde-Addison, Eaton -- that's a pretty impressive group of feeders and not a whole lot of FARMS in that lot.  It's OK for NW but not the Hill.  When Hardy turns DCPS is going to see a MS even more affluent and less diverse than Deal[/quote]

but everyone knows the Hill can't have nice things . . . those are reserved for Wards 2 and 3 and to a lesser extent 4.[/quote]
Throwing Ward 4 in there must be a joke...we have been last in line for just about every renovation round.[/quote]

[b]Lafayette is Ward 4[/b].[/quote]

Barely.[/quote] Fake Edit: Even conceding Lafayette, that is a school with 700+ kids that is just now being renovated, years after many other schools.  Not exactly evidence that this ward has been receiving preferential treatment.[/quote]

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