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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IMO, as an Ellington grad, it deserves more money. It is 1 of the only truly functional, successful DCPS high schools. I graduated some years back with a class of 92. 90 of us went on to at least community college if not a 4-year-college. I am friends with many Ellington grads and we all have good jobs, often still in our majors or close to them. Several are teaching in DCPS or otherwise involved with city kids. It's an amazing place that could be grown into a real draw for DCPS as a whole with a renovated building.

When I was there the theater was regularly rented out to professional theater companies. We students were hired to help out behind stage.

From the backgrounds of a lot of kids I was there with, I would say that most of them would not have ended up at college or even in a career if they had not attended Ellington. We should all be celebrating the energy of the kids who attend school for nearly 2 more hours than the rest of DCPS and are often there late into the evening rehearsing and otherwise using the facility. Ellington's building was absolutely my second home the entire time I was there and I was one of the few students for whom my first home was a middle class one with relatively functional parents and food on the table.

I'm the proud parent of a future Ellington student and I am absolutely thrilled about the renovation. We are truly a family and whenever you meet an Ellington student, grad, or teacher anywhere around you are instant friends. Let's be glad that the city is investing in a school that produces graduates of whom DCPS can be proud.[/quote]

Yeah, F those poor kids who are at schools with lower graduation rates. They don't deserve to have a nice facility. Let's just shit on them or send them to jail.

Nice compassion you learned there... :roll: [/quote]

Not the poster you responded to but darn you are one angry person with reading comp issues. No where in PP post did she even intimate what you suggested. The other schools are all receiving gut makeovers, but a regular comprehensive school does not require the same infrastructure as a specialty school such as DE.  DE requires multiple art, music, sound, theatre, and dance rooms in addition to the science, computer and other classes found in a regular school. Otherwise, why bother calling it a school for the gifted arts.

However, now that DC has invested so much money to improve the gifted arts students, it would be really nice if they focused greatly on providing a HS for STEM. [/quote]

You're correct, if you believe that there's an infinite amount of money available.  But if you live in the real world "it deserves more money" (PP's words) means that "others deserve less", which is exactly what our school is getting.[/quote]

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