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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, say good bye to that nice Guy Mason playground. It's going to be fun to see litter and people sleeping all over it at 3pm. I am a firm believer in NIMBY. What next, a methadone clinic?

Oh, and whatever schools these shelters will be inbounds for, prepare for those schools to go downhill fast.[/quote]

1) You are a person lacking in compassion. It is not an admirable quality.

2) These shelters are not general homeless shelters. They are FAMILY shelters. For people with children. They are being built to prevent people sleeping on the street - at 3pm or otherwise.

3) Given that, I think you can agree that the current location of the family shelter - DC General campus - is not a healthy or particularly safe environment. I work out there, next to the methadone clinic, down the alley from the STD clinic, across the parking lot from the jail. This is not a place where children should be living, period.

4) The schools will not go downhill fast. I am confident that your very strong upper NW school system can figure out how to accommodate the needs that these kids bring with them (which I know a ton about and I'm guessing you know nothing about). Research indicates that going to those schools will not change the baseline for those schools but will elevate the performance of the at risk kids themselves. I know this isn't what you want to hear because it does not comport with your worldview, but it is the reality.[/quote]

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