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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The current renovation for Ellington is $130m. Dunbary was $120m and built from scratch for a capacity of ~1200.  Why would putting Ellington facility for ~600 at Shaw MS or Garnet-Patterson cost so much more?[/quote]

Looking at the renovation already underway answers your question.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcd4hTLEGQg

I don't go to the school or have any plans to do so.  But even from the outside and having no dog in the fight, this tiresome refrain looks entitled, chauvinistic and an ugly reminder of uglier times.  Please stop.[/quote]

Where would you suggest as the site for the new Ward 2/Ward 3 high school then?  Ellington makes the most sense, but given entrenched interests there may be unlikely.  Unless you want Wilson to become a strictly west of the park high school, there will be a need for another HS in the area -- any sites that you would suggest instead?[/quote]

Why don't you go after the old Hardy School on Foxhall instead? Lab School leases it and there may enough land there for your high school. [/quote]

The density of the upper NW schools is already creating unbalances . The future investments must be further east or south. Either build there (MS) or upgrade and re-launch with new and improved academic offering existing schools. I think that what has been started for Roosevelt is very promising. I trust that parents will join forces and consistently demand a) a time schedule ; b) a concrete proposal (not just a vague statement for an international program. Start soon in order to make it an international bacchalaurate and strenghten also the math/scientific offering, as these are the two demands arising from families (the first in continuity with Deal).

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