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I disagree.  I think the bigger issue is DCPS wants to siphon families who are in the Stoddert zone to the new school That is untenable from a logistics standpoint. It would take kids who are walkable to their neighborhood school and force their families to drive. That is stupid. Frumin seems to be more concerned about that, and rightly so. Just because it fits the Foxhall NIMBY narrative doesn't mean it is wrong.

The idea that there would be three schools focus on a two bloc area in a transit poor location is really a bad idea. Yes, the school overcrowding needs to be addressed, but it also needs to be done in a smart manner. What the Mayor is proposing for lower Palisades simply doesn't make any sense.[/quote]

Yes, this is where Frumin is overwhelmingly correct.  The solution, currently planned, is to build a school for Foxhall children, and fill it mainly with kids from Stoddert/Glover Park.  That's not right!  The posts here about Foxhall children are also correct: they have to travel far to school.

The working group, without Glover Park representation, agreed to hurt Glover Park to help Foxhall/Palisades.  That's pretty easy to do if you don't consider the costs to others.  As a small example of this, check how they calculated distance to the new school from Glover Park: on the rutted Glover Archbold park path that wouldn't be walkable for kids, nor bright enough to walk on for part of the school year.  That's a hike, not a walk.[/quote]

First, it's nonsense that there was no Glover Park representation on the Working Group, every school in the Wilson feeder had representation. Second, the Working Group didn't "agree to hurt Glover Park to help Foxhall/Palisades," because the Working Group didn't decide anything, the Mayor and Chancellor Ferebee did. Third, it's not true that the plan is to "fill it mainly with kids from Stoddert/Glover Park." Here is exactly what Ferebee said in his letter announcing that the school would be built, in March, 2022: "This will require drawing a new boundary that re-assigns portions of the Key, Mann and Stoddert boundaries, and developing a phase-in approach for when these changes will go into effect for impacted schools." [/quote]

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