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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And something else to consider is what will the children be doing? All the discussion of overcrowding at Eaton shows that Ward 3 residents think homeless families only have children under 10? What about the middle school and highschoolers? What's the city plan for providing them support (many of them no doubt have one parent who is absent and possibly adjudicated), academic delays, need for meaningful after school activities etc. What the operational plan once this shelter is IN? The BEST thing the city could do is start wooing neighbors including businesses to make creative partnerships. My understanding is the apartments don't have kitchens...(not sure how that encourages independence). Is the city partnering with Giant across the street to provide healthy food? With a local restaurant to provide cooking classes? Or at they jamming it in with zero partnership or follow up. I have not seen the 'vision' for how this is going to be different from any other failed DC shelter--just smaller and geographically spread apart. I'd like to see that. As a neighbor and as a taxpayer.[/quote]

On John Eaton, (1) the shelter kids have to go to school somewhere; (2) the shelter will be within the Eaton zone; (3) other area schools like Janney are overcrowded and have no room, and the shelter kids would likely feel out of place in a more demographically homogeneous environment.  Eaton is already diverse.  Just suck it up, Eaton.  You'll be ok.[/quote]

I truly wish this had been placed in Janney so we could see the hand-wringing from those folks. Eaton is always told to suck everything up.  And now we're getting a renovation to coincide with the opening of this shelter because of its impact on the school when originally it was touted as having no impact because the children wouldn't be school-aged.

So which is it? School-aged children or not? In what broom closet should we place all these children? Eaton is also very overcrowded because Central Office forces it to take extra kids OOB and shoe-horn them in so that there's still a pipeline to better schools. Though why they do that yet took away the Deal feed is still mystifying if politically they still wanted a pipleline to Deal for people. And even with a renovation, there won't be more space for kids....there's nowhere for Eaton to expand.[/quote]

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