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[quote=Anonymous]Moving the new MacArthur HS to Intelsat is plainly a bad idea, but if we're all gonna speculate on what should happen if the city had unlimited money and could do whatever it wanted with the WTOP schools, how about this wild one:

-Ellington moves to Intelsat, which enables an expansion of Ellington, while making it more accessible for it's students.  As a magnet school, it draws much more widely than even the OOB populations of other HSs, so putting it on a metro line would be really smart.  Additionally, it's proximity to UDC could allow for a bit of facility sharing in terms of performance spaces, instructors, etc.

-MacArthur HS moves to the Ellington building.  Improves transit accessibility and sites the HS near its feeder MS for facility/resource sharing.

-DC purchases the Washington International School primary school campus next to Duke Ellington (it's not for sale).  Allows expansion of Duke Ellington's building footprint and additional outdoor space appropriate to a general purpose HS.

-MacArthur HS campus becomes a neighborhood ES.

-Honestly I want to put something on Hardy field in this scenario, just because the idiots opposing an ES on the edge of Hardy field are in the wrong.  Taking suggestions.  How about an arts center?

-My masterpiece.  Deck over the Georgetown Reservoir and build like 10 athletic fields and some mixed use development on the surface (this is actually the best standalone idea and should be done to give MacArthur HS a full set of athletic fields).  The GTR is huge.  So huge.  Like nearly as big as the whole Georgetown Campus huge.  And it's just nothing.  You can't access it.  Just look at it.  Deck it over and use an absolute ton of space that you gain.  It's like a whole new neighborhood.[/quote]

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