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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was informed of this thread and want to say that I am sick and tired of being blocked in every morning. Something has to be done. Period. [/quote]

Have you complained to the school rather than an anonymous website? And when you say "blocked in" do you mean by traffic or someone actually parking their car in front of your driveway? FWIW, I live within two blocks of a private HS in DC, and I KNEW when I bought the house that there would be traffic related to the school. No one forced me to buy my particular house. I bought it fully aware that there was going to be increased traffic in the mornings and in the afternoons, that there were going to be sporting events and school events where families parked everywhere in my neighborhood. Unless a student is blocking my driveway in an *illegal* manner, I have never had the occasion to complain to the school. There was one incident when students were driving recklessly, racing each other at extremely high speeds through the neighborhood, and I complained directly to the principal. The matter was straightened out right away, and the students were suspended. So, it's not like I don't empathize, but it really strikes me as irrational to choose to live in an urban area, which is close to shops, business, and schools, and then complain about the traffic that is logically expected from proximity. [/quote]

This ignores that GDS had only a high school in the neighborhood when pp likely bought their house. Traffic control was literally a condition for GDS to expand, so your comparison makes no sense.[/quote]

Way to lose the forest for the trees. You choose to buy an expensive house in an urban area that is full of schools. FWIW, the HS near me expanded. And BTW, Tenleytown lost St. Ann's and saw an increase in student population at Deal and Janney. Populations shift--the urban-ish nature of Tenleytown did not. [/quote]

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