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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And then when you think about what DCPS has sunk into Ellington and Dunbar, you come to the conclusion that Bowser and DCPS hate young non-poor children.[/quote]

I am always amazed by the way Ward 3 parents are able to look at a feast of educational resources and somehow find a way to make it look like they are being screwed in favor of poor kids.

Don't compare yourself to a high school. Find me another elementary school from a poor neighborhood that had a more expensive modernization than yours. Then you can complain.

Murch has already had its funding increased once, and will likely get more: The project is at $68 million now and will probably end up closer to $80 million. This is a very, very large project in terms of elementary schools. The most expensive elementary modernization I have seen in my Ward (Ward One), cost 60 million. My own child's school started with 20 million and has had our project decreased to $17 million. We have never had an underground parking lot in our plan, even though we have to share a neighboring park with a charter for play space so our teachers can park on the school lot.

City-wide, Ward 3 consistently comes out on top in the modernization fight. Only one elementary school in the Wilson feeder pattern, Eaton, will still be waiting for modernization as of 2017 (11 will have been modernized). By contrast, in the Woodson High School feeder pattern, none of the elementary schools will be fully modernized as of 2017. Four schools (Burrville, Drew, Nalle, and Thomas) will have been partially modernized, and four schools (Aiton, CW Harris, Houston, and Smothers) will not have been touched.

I'm sure you are all making great sacrifices by sending your children to public school instead of checking out to private, and want the rest of us be appreciative, and I'm sure many of you are not jerks, but it's very hard not to choke on my lunch when I read comments like this. Quite down and eat your rich-people cake without complaining so much. [/quote]

1. Name a school in the rest of the city that has as many kids as the biggest elementary schools in Ward 3. Or middle school or high school for that matter.
2. The majority of kids who attend DCPS schools in Ward 3 don't live in Ward 3. [b]Ward 3 hosts education for the entire city.[/b][/quote]

A situation that will have to change because Ward 3 schools are seriously overcrowded.[/quote]

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