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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I listened in on a good portion of the meeting. Honestly, I got the sense that the FCCA doesn't really understand how far along the dcps plans are. they are so focused on Hardy park that they aren't really giving airtime to the proposal that MacArthur WiLL BE either a middle school or high school. and of course there were people [rightly] griping about the Lab School giveaway of Old Hardy but I thought it was this exact community that expressed their approval of that deal. Is that incorrect?[/quote]

You are correct. I've heard FCCS officials wax poetic about the danger a public school would pose to the area.[/quote]

Yeah, they say they are worried about a loss of a basketball court, tennis courts, soccer field and so forth, but those who take the time to visit or look at a satellite image of the park realize that there is an awful lot of land there that is sitting idle. Some of the existing courts and fields may need to be moved around a bit, but there is nothing to indicate that the new school will drastically alter the amenities offered by the park. Their concerns, as stated, don't really make sense, which usually indicates that these are not their real concerns. We will never know for sure, of course, but I would bet solid money that this has much more to do with not wanting public school (and particularly some "at-risk" public school) children in the neighborhood than anything else. The difference in FCCA's attitude towards LAB and its reaction to the proposed public schools is both jarring and telling.[/quote]

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