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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about schools where the entire building is substandard, not up to code, leaks, poor working HVAC systems where one part of the building is an oven the other a freezer and the list could go on? As a parent in a school that keeps getting pushed farther down the list in timing, but ranked higher on the list in need of renovations, it's really hard for me to have sympathy for loss of funding over a gym/cafeteria. I'm not saying the school is not worthy of the renovations and doesn't deserve them, but it is hard to stomach. I'm reading a lot of comments about "equal funding for all schools" but once your school is finished will you help speak for other school communities that are challenging DC/DCPS, have grossly inadequate facilities and don't have as loud as a voice? And whose concerns are being pushed aside and given the run around?

-a DCPS parent [/quote]

Imagine that they begin your school's renovation soon.  They work on it off and on (phased renovations) for three years, at great inconvenience to students and staff, and then abandon it to move onto others schools, with the rationale that your school has at least had partial renovations, while there are other schools which haven't been touched.

Imagine that at the same, there's an indication that the city would like to move away from phased renovations, which means that your school may never get the last critical renovations done.

Also imagine that funds for your school's remaining renovations are chopped up and redistributed to other named schools, thereby having the effect--intentional or otherwise--of pitting schools against each other.

Finally, imagine that your school is the only school singled out in this manner during the Council on Education's budget review.[/quote]

This is why there should be more money overall for school modenization.  There's really no good answer to which is higher priority: Shepherd's cafeteria, or another school's urgently needed modernization.  I blame the mayor and the council - all of them.  I refuse to be pitted against other schools.

If Bowser and Mendelson don't want to touch this issue, then they can count me out voting for them.  Grosso isn't doing himself any favors either - this is his baby.[/quote]

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