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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was shocked to see this from Frumin yesterday.  I am a supporter of his but this is a terrible idea.  One of his opponents in the election, Goulet who is now on the school board, basically ran on this idea and was defeated and criticized for it as presenting, among other things, a bad real estate deal.  Now Frumin is promoting it? And suggesting we scuttle MacArthur school barely a month after its seemingly successful and good-start opening?  Way to abandon MacArthur at a time it need support.  This location is much too close to J-R to be viable as another HS without undermining J-R itself.  And a complete distraction from pressing priorities.  I hope he can find a way to detract this.[/quote]

We’d rather see Matt Frumin spend his time to get school bus service from Ward 3 neighborhoods rezoned to MacArthur.  It’s impractical to get to and from school by Metro bus now.[/quote]

WMATA has proposed to add a new bus that would connect many of the in-boundary neighborhoods and two Metro stations to MacArthur HS. Guess who wrote a letter to WMATA asking them not to create the new line? Matt Frumin.[/quote]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?![/quote]

It's true. Under the Better Bus Visionary Network, WMATA proposed ditching the D2 bus and creating a new line that would have connected Tenleytown to Foggy Bottom via Glover Park, MacArthur, and M Street. It would have been great for the school, but D2 riders in Glover Park organized their asses off and spread all manner of disinformation to save the D2. Frumin took all of what they said at face value and then copy pasted their screeds into his letter to Randy Clarke providing feedback on the Visionary Network. We don't know if WMATA will do what Frumin is telling them to do, but if so what would have been a great bus line for both in-boundary and out-of-boundary students at MacArthur HS will never happen.[/quote]

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