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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] On Foxhall, this was an idea that nobody took seriously when proposed.[/quote]

The Community Working Group members who examined this for months and solicited hours of testimony and hundreds of pages of written submissions are nobody? Families in Foxhall who will finally have the neighborhood public school that every other neighborhood in DC has are nobody? Elementary school kids who walk 1.5 miles to get to school are nobody? 4th and 5th graders at Key being taught in “modular classrooms” are nobody? Kids who are forbidden to talk when eating lunch because their cafeteria is too small are nobody? Families across the city who would like to send their children to one of the high-performing Ward 3 elementaries but can’t because there are no out-of-boundary slots available are nobody? Families in Ward 3 who would like to send their 3 and 4 year olds to pre-K at a DCPS school but can’t because, again, there isn’t enough space to accommodate them are nobody? All of these people took this “idea” rather seriously. But to you, apparently, they are “nobody”.

You can claim you are being taken out of context but the context makes the same point less succinctly. The Foxhall ES building may not be the most aesthetically pleasing addition to the Foxhall neighborhood but it is the only proposal with funding, a timeline, and mayoral support that promises to solve the above problems (which maybe you don’t think are worth addressing). We all realize that projecting oneself as having a Midas touch that can magically achieve miraculous solutions to intractable problems is part and parcel with running for office, but your stance on the issue opens up a can of worms that threatens to derail the only chance on the horizon of resolving the worsening  overcrowding in our local schools.[/quote]

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