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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What good would that do when the DCPS schools whose boundaries abut Brent's are also overcrowded?  On the Brent District's southern border, Van Ness is likely to need classroom trailers to get to 5th grade in two years. On the northern border, Peabody can't absorb anywhere near all the 3-6 year olds applying to PreS3 and PreK4 in its catchment area and has large K classes.  On the western border, Tyler Spanish immersion has an in-boundary waiting list.  Where the logic in DCPS shifting Brent's crowding issues to one or more neighboring schools?

What's needed is political attention to crowding in popular schools with high SES populations all over the City. What was DCPS thinking when they auctioned off one old school building after another to developers on the Hill [b]10-20 years back[/b]?  Let us guess, they weren't thinking about anything but getting the cash for the real estate.[/quote]

20 years back you would not have lived on the hill.   I needed to get something to my brother who worked at the Navy Yard.  He told me to keep driving around until I saw him and make sure my doors were locked.   I grew up and lived in Urban areas - but this was the reality or being safe.  [/quote]

We've lived on the Hill for over 20 years, providing for quick commutes to the Congressional offices where we work. We were married for over a decade before we had kids and bought in-boundary for Brent.

We've watched the population of school-aged kids in the neighborhood explode since we arrived in the late 90s. [b]We've also watched one classy old DCPS building after another get auctioned off to a condo developer. The myopic game started with the Carberry school on 5th St NE.  The Pierce school on Maryland was next, then the Lennox School on 5th in SE, and finally the Bryan school on Independence. Insanity.[/b]

At least DCPS has finally stopped selling off school real estate around here, buildings that could have been used to catch overflow from today's overcrowded schools.

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Aside from possibly the Lennox building, those former schools would have been insufficient in size or suitability for modern ES.  Add to that the non-existent demand at the time for additional public schools from either DCPS or charter sector.

And you're overlooking the more obvious sell off -- the Hine MS building.  Potentially better target only because it could be razed in the historic district with fewer limits than historic school houses.[/quote]

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