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[b]The renovation plans for Ellington - with significant private investment will make it a performing arts center, not just a high school. The extra space is going to dance studios, rehearsal rooms with specially-built acoustics, exhibit space, auditoriums and performance halls. It's not just that the students are mostly AA, it's that the school is a school for performing arts. That's what it's meant to be, and there's no other performing arts school anywhere that's also a neighborhood school. Demand that of this one really is repellant. [/b]

I don't have the codefordc link that shows the dearth of kids attending DCPS from that part of town, but it's proof that building a new high school there doesn't make sense.

If you want to keep Wilson for WOTP families then put some effort behind other options EOTP where a good percentage of Wilson students live and where projections show that the population if school-aged kids is growing. [/quote]

Exactly.  What do these Ward 2/3 parents have in mind?  That they'll settle for having Billy and Susie take AP Chem in a performance auditorium?  No.  That will need to be reconfigured for lab space.

Ellington is an arts school and it's of historic and cultural value and instead of leaving, it is being improved to be a performing arts center in its own right.  The grasping hubris of the Ward 2 parents is almost comical.  Why not just paint mustaches on your faces and call yourselves "Snidely Whiplash"?

Fortunately, the good guys will win this one.  Hey, want to buy tickets for Sting's benefit concert?  :)[/quote]

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