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??? No one even knows where this school will be located. [/quote]

Everyone knows where this school will be located. Every split basis campus does things the same way.[/quote]

So where exactly will this not yet approved school be?  Since you know, please share.[/quote]
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The school has said it will be close to the current campus.  They implied it will be close enough to share facilities.[/quote]

Yes, exactly. In my PP I was assuming that the new campus would be near the existing campus. That's what BASIS said and that's what it's like at every BASIS split campus. Someone responded objecting that I had no idea where the new school would be located (from the perspective of saying where commuting would be convenient from, not like the exact street address).[/quote]

But where? There’s no buildings around there with outdoor space. The nearby daycares play on the sidewalk. Is that what BASIS is planning?[/quote]

Many of the mega office buildings downtown have large courtyard in the middle and large rooftop patios.[/quote]

BASIS DC is literally a few blocks from the mall, which is almost 150 acres and the 11th most visited national park in the United States.[/quote]

And yet 5th and 6th graders at BASIS visit it on average once a week.[/quote]

They can go every day before or after school if they want.[/quote]
Huh?  That kind of kneejerk charter defending sounds dumb.[/quote]

You think that it is dumb for kids to go to a national park a few blocks from their school?

You sound dumb.  Do you even have kids?[/quote]
Anyway.

The National Mall is not taken advantage of nearly as much as claimed to new and prospective families, because the 8-10 minute walk each way to the fields they use seriously cuts into any activity there when the PE period is 55 minutes, and the lunch period even shorter. 
Bringing it up as ... a fantastic extracurricular for the whole family? Uh, nice! You're right I guess. But unless the elementary school building's even closer to the Mall, it will need some outdoor space - which many of those bigger buildings have.
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