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[quote=Anonymous]Murch is a fantastic school and I'm sure my child will be very happy with his teachers and classmates wherever they are located. With that said, I have absolutely no confidence that the construction will be sufficiently advanced that children can safely occupy the renovate old building/trailers by August 2017, with adequate play areas, especially since, once they move the kids back onto the Murch site in 2017, the construction will probably slow down. This sounds like they are sneakily moving the "swing on site" option back despite the almost universal opposition to that plan and it also very much sounds like the soccer fields' renovations is being made a priority over the education and wellbeing of 650 kids. Additionally, DCPS/DGS has been consistently opaque and unforthcoming about their plans for Murch, to the extent of sharing information with Lafayette before they shared it with the principal of Murch, which makes me doubt pretty much everything they say. They've had to be dragged virtually kicking and screaming to make every single decision about this renovation, and they seem to present options at the last minute that were never discussed at any of the meetings I attended (such as the one year in one space, one year in another option.) So forgive me for having almost no confidence in their planned timeline or in their guarantees that the kids would be able to play outside in the middle of construction.

To reiterate, the school is great, and we're there till the end of elementary, but parents, teachers and staff deserve a lot better than they've gotten from the organs of DC government so far![/quote]

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