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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They can't fit that number of kids or staff on the site, can they?[/quote]

Well, that is the bottom line, isn't it. They can't. To make a cafetorium work you need less than 400 students. Any more, and you can't have lunch and run a full PE program in the same room. You certainly can't do it with almost double the number of classes. The site restrictions mean they can't build up and they can't build to the North at all. They can only build down to make 730 students fit on one of DC's smallest lots. And they say they can't afford to do that. So either they fully fund it, or they don't do it and find somewhere else to send 330 students. Interestingly, that is exactly enough students to build another school entirely -- which would actually cost less. That excess -- 330 students -- is the about the same as or bigger than 36 other DCPS elementary schools, 11 middle schools, and 3 high schools. The over enrollment at Murch is more students than at 50 other DCPS schools!!!!!!

Why on God's green earth are they trying to shoehorn so many kids onto this one spot of land?[/quote]

One of the problems cited in the audit of school modernizations is that DGS/DCPS do not take into account meaningful demographic projections when making decisions. This short-sightedness is a key reason they keep going over budget on modernizations and why recently updated schools like Janney, Stoddert, Deal, and Wilson are already overcapacity. Just watch, the same thing will happen with Hearst, Lafayette, and Murch. [/quote]

This is so true. There is zero coordination with demographics and renovations/ modernizations. And for everyone saying boundaries should be changed now so more IB go through Hearst, that is a waste of energy. Even if the boundaries were changed during the boundary process, Hearst was remodeled for a small number of students. I believe 300, showing once again a complete failure to look at demographics. [/quote]

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