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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be really obvious to take some pressure off of Murch, to move some kids. Maybe 100-150, but to argue that the student body size is irrelevant to the renovation issues at hand is not being honest about the challenges of the space on site. [/quote]

You move 150 kids and there is a real chance you can swing on site and save the DC tax payers millions of dollars and preserve open space.  Is this not worth exploring, maybe just a little bit?  Pretty please.[/quote]

Where are those 150 kids going? And which kids?

You're not going to move the boundaries between now and August.[/quote]

They don't exist yet. DCPS is insisting on building for a larger student body then the school has now; but won't get the funding needed to make that happen. This last minute redesign just highlights how ridiculous it is to try to increase the size of the student body on this lot. They can't do it. There aren't even enough classrooms in the reconfiguration.[/quote]

Then DCPS will just bring back the trailers I suppose, which would be most unfortunate.  This renovation needs to happen soon.  The trailers (surrounded by chain link fence) are starting to resemble a low security prison camp.  Depressing.[/quote]

My elementary school in Montgomery County had trailers for most of the time I went there. I survived.[/quote]

It's fascinating that this situation has not started a larger conversation on what is an appropriate and safe size for an early childhood education school.  Rather, its turned into an engineering exercise to determine which side can squeeze more little kids on to a tiny lot.  Think people are missing the bigger picture here.  Fascinating.[/quote]

No, many people have pointed out this problem: too many kids, too small a lot.

But as people have said (over and over again): DCPS didn't address the school's size in the redistricting process, and it's not going to in the next four months. So now we are trying to get the very best solution possible for our kids. It might be "fascinating" to you, but to us it's an endless battle to get DCPS and DGS to deliver on long-delayed promises.[/quote]

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