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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Maybe, but unforutately the site is less than half of Wilson's and that would be WITH taking all of the surrounding property which is owned by the Department of Parks & Rec.  A bigger site could be had near Maclean Gardens by evicting the Second District police station and taking all of the surrounding land that is currently the McL Gardens playground, dog park and community gardens.  Aside from predictable opposition to taking those uses, the real problem with that site is its relative proximity to Wilson itself.[/quote]

It's ridicolos, your are talking about sites which are 1 mile or 3.5 miles from one another. No additional schools in Upper NW. [/quote]

Yes, perhaps you are right.  If you take additional schools off the table WOTP, the simplest solution to deal with Wilson and Deal overcrowding is to end OOB feeder rights from elementary schools and, if additional steps are necessary, shrink Wilson's far-flung boundary area a bit closer to the school.  It would be a straightforward solution, although not necessarily a universally popular one politically.[/quote]

No, you build strong and appealing alternatives to Wilson for OOB. A new Western school, from this moment to the moment the first kid can step in would take no less than 6 years. Roosevelt restructuring is scheduled to end in less than 2 years. That's the train to catch, now. Assess the demand of prospective/current families and work with them and DCPS to build a competitive academic offer. [/quote]

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