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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?[/quote]

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge. [/quote]

What high school are you zoned for?[/quote]

Coolidge. [/quote]

So you will send your kid to a school other than Coolidge.  What would you have the city do with Coolidge, tear it down for condos? [/quote]

I have 2 kids, age 15 and 12. Both in charters now. Younger may apply to a DCPS application school.

Tear down for condos or long-term lease (20 year) to a charter school. Charter school would have to pay the cost of renovation. [/quote]

Tear down the school for condos and the citizens lose access to the school's attached track, baseball, soccer, and football field. You must be a Boswer supporter. Let's give the city away to the developers at the expense of green space. [/quote]

Then replace with single family homes, not condos. The only thing that would be "lost" is the football field and track, which are locked and unavailable to residents most of the time. The rest of the fields are DPR-owned and managed and wouldn't be affected.

More housing helps the neighborhood by creating demand for the businesses that are already there. There's also good environmental policy to build near transit.

I've owned a home in Takoma for 16 years now. Renovating Coolidge as yet another comprehensive high school is not needed now. If the demographers think it may be needed in 15-20 years, then lease it to a charter and let them renovate it. If and when DCPS needs the space they can take it back over.

But the renovate it and they will come strategy is not working.

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