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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meyer is a ready made swing space as mentioned above.  Not optimal for the Hyde families.  But putting out all the Hardy kids (and the Fillmore program, which is still up for real debate, and the entire No. Georgetown community which would lose all the field space b/w the small facilities at Hardy & Ellington field... and Ellington is already under construction with traffic/congestion/noise/etc implications one block away)  is not a fair option.  In addition, Hyde is still less than 50% IB.[/quote]

Meyer is great -- if Ellington is done and able to move next fall as planned. If DGS is looking at other options for Hyde then that's worrying on a whole different level.

But Hyde's OOB percentage seems totally irrelevant to this discussion. [/quote]

The OOB percentage is not entirely irrelevant, and I say that as an OOB at our WOTP elementary.  If you look at the SIT team proposal from last month, the ONLY "cons"  listed for Meyer as a swing space is that it is not within the H-A community and that it would require bussing.  If more than half the students are out of boundary, and dont live in Georgetown or Burleith, the "not in the community" con is rendered greatly less relevant.  Murch is now in their swing space at UDC and from everything I've heard it's going quite well. So if people like Jack Evans kowtow to a few Georgetown residents and make   Recommendations that actually disrupt not one but two school communities, then shame on them. [/quote]

Well said.  Jack Evans stepped in in support of a few wealthy Burleith families who were against the disruptions in the Ellington fields.  He did not care that in doing this he was screwing up two schools, Hyde and Hardy. I think the made his calculations: Hardy feeders are all Ward 3, except for Hyde. At Hyde the current IB kids  are just above 110, which is approx 70-80 families in his constituency. He gets more political rent and prestige from supporting the anti-Ellington families in his constituency, rather than 70-80 families which attend the local public school.

So please stop the narrative against the lack of altruism of the Hardy community, and turn your attention towards the selfish Burleith/Georgetown residents who did not give a shit of their elementary and middle schools, and towards the warden of their interest, Jack Evans. [/quote]

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