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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Leave the race/income obsessed PP alone -- she won't be satisfied unless her slide rule says the "poor" schools and the "rich" schools have equally divided fruit.[/quote]

PP here. I would be satisfied if Ward 3 parents stopped trying to pretend their schools were somehow getting discriminated against in favor of poor children. But yes, equitable distribution of modernization funds would be nice. I will take an underground parking lot too, please.[/quote]

But why do you need an underground lot? Is your ES at 150% capacity AND sitting on a too-small parcel of land that is partially owned by the National Park Service? Murch doesn't want underground parking for fun or because it's fancy--Murch NEEDS underground parking to shoe-horn a school big enough to accommodate twice as many kids as it was originally built for without losing every square inch of open space.

And you are being incredibly disingenuous in suggesting that those of us advocating for Murch are saying we're being discriminated against in favor of poor children. THe only person who has pitted rich kids vs. poor kids on this thread is you, PP.

The Murch community is fully supportive of schools like Marie Reed getting almost as much for a one-year renovation as Murch gets for a two-year renovation...because we believe the Marie Reed renovation is likely funded at the *right* level, while Murch's renovation funding has never been based in reality. You should try reading the letters our SIT and HSA have written and the testimony delivered before the Council--you'll see that the message has always been about ensuring that all schools get the right funding for their renovations. It's expressly NOT about pitting school vs. school.

I'm truly sorry if your school is not getting the support it needs, but please don't take it out on Murch, which has waited for decades for renovation and many times put citywide needs before its own. Please hold DC accountable to doing renovations properly so that they can't get away with this at other schools around the city.[/quote]

Also...Duke Ellington is getting an underground parking lot. Where's the outrage, PP?[/quote]

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