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The current SCES is the back end of a 100-year old school that has not been maintained. The school runs lunch from 10 am to 2 pm, because of its small cafeteria. It has poor indoor air quality and is overcapacity. The roof is old. The HVAC is breaks down regularly. The playground is small and because of that, has a dirt surface. Students need to walk through a parking lot with poor sight lines to get to the bathroom if they are at recess. I could go on...

I'm guessing you like the school because your child walks to school and that is the most important thing to you.[/quote]

As an SCES parent, I believe that some of these issues like the playground and “walking through a parking lot” are overblown, whereas others (like the small cafeteria) are legit. I want to see data on costs to make the school safe and functional before throwing in the towel.

But to your second point, walkability matters here for good reasons! Many of our neighbors bought in DTSS because we can walk to the metro and the schools, and that is essential because we have zero or one car. If the school moves to Parkside ES, it is going to complicate drop off and pick up. For pick up, we will have to metro back to silver spring after work, take some form of public transit (bus?) up to park side to get the kids from after care, and then bus back to our DTSS home with the kids (whereas now we hop off the a metro, walk to the school, and then we all walk the few blocks home). Metro accessibility and school accessibility were the main reason we moved here. And we aren’t the only ones with these circumstances. So yes, walking is important to many of us but for pretty valid reasons. [/quote]

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