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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The parking thing isn't unique to Ellington. DCPS says they must install one at Murch because of zoning, and will be destroying a playground to do it. Doesn't Janney have one too?

Now supposedly the city is saying no more underground parking garages but in the initial waves of building they were de riguer (similar to kilns at elementary schools).

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Underground parking isn't always a waste of money. It depends.

What is clear is that it is a waste of money in this case. T[b]he school should have been moved to a more central, metro accessible location.

The reason it was not is because its political backers like the prestige of the current site and saw the sensible suggestions to move it as being part of The Plan. [/b]

That's as far as I can determine. It is a total scandal, reminiscent of Barry- era DC. 
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Oh come on.   There was every reason to leave Duke where it was, given that it had thrived there for decades.   Downtown real estate and building costs would have been even more expensive than Georgetown.   This continuing irrational effort to tie the location to the inexcusable cost overruns is nothing but snooty Georgetown and Burleith residents who are angry that a bunch of predominantly African American kids have the temerity to attend public school in their neighborhood.[/quote]

Finally, the race card!

Have no sense of decency, sir?

More to the point, a couple of you Duke Ellington boosters are using the expression "thriving."

What exactly do you mean? That you know how to steal $180 million, and counting, of taxpayer money to fund your pet projects?[/quote]

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