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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an issue that really isn't that complicated and should lend itself to an easy compromise if people would stop being so emotional about it.

I don't think anyone can honestly dispute that living in close proximity to a school involves negative externalities.

When you move-in next to a school, you can account for those costs when you buy.

When a school moves in next to you, you cannot.

If you have lived within 3 blocks of SWS since it got there, you get a preference.

If you moved there after, you knew what you were getting into---no preference + bad traffic. [/quote]

What does this even mean?  Just an FYI: the Goding school has been there for decades.   When gentrifiers bought across the street in the last 10 years - it already WAS across the street from their houses and you can bet it wasn't a school they were lobbying to get their kids access to.  I sincerely doubt they considered it in their decision to buy at all.  What they did know when they bought their homes was that LUDLOW TATYLOR was their INBOUNDS elementary school.   Now it seems a teeny group of people want special treatment at the cost of every other lottery player in the city because of where DCPS decided to plant the school.    This whole "restore the neighborhood school of SWS" line is such a crock, the Goding neighbors never had any right to this school, if anyone is complaining it should be the cluster.  [/quote]

So I suppose all you naysayers will also rally against the promised Van Ness as a neighborhood school near stadium.  Let's just make all new elementary schools city-wide so we don't offend 
anyone.   [/quote]

One.  more.  time.   L-T is the neighborhood school and it's A BLOCK AWAY.[/quote]

No, actually LT is eight blocks away (you clearly don 'to live in the neighborhood). I'm not and have never said that seven blocks is terribly inconvenient.  Would I rather go to a great school right outside my front door ?  You betcha!  Would SWS benefit from having neighbor kids attend their school?  You betcha!

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