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[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]

You are full of half-truths. The Goding school was empty 10 years ago, in the middle of an on-again off-again rehab project that finally finished. The school was never in play for the neighbors from that time period because it was for learning disabled students, who were bussed in from other parts of town and there were few children in the neighborhood. Until 2005 or 2006, the immediate neighborhood had preference for the Cluster due to Stuart Hobson. This changed when the feeder patterns were expanded/changed for SH.

All that to say, I think it's nice to have children go to the public school they can see out their front door.[/quote]
Move a little further down on G and they will be able to see Ludlow Taylor out the front door. It's probably easier.[/quote]

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