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The rest of us who can look at this objectively realize that adding these schools strengthens public education in DC and support them accordingly.[/quote]

Sure, but the equity issue for this particular school at this particular location is appallingly bad. Just own it.[/quote]m

There are many modest apartment buildings along the lower McArthur. Children from there will attend the new school, thus making school access more equitable. Schools serve primarily their neighborhoods. Students from other wards are usually the exception rather than the rule so their concerns should not be primary drivers of the new schools planning.

Also, Key hosts 6 trailers for its 4th and 5th graders and Stoddert will build an addition, but the pace of its growth, who knows, it may become overcrowded again soon.

The new Foxhall ES resolves the overcrowding problem at Key. That needs a solution, not everything has to revolve around equity! It will probably also ensure that families will have another family friendly neighborhood besides Glover Park, and help reduce or prevent future overcrowding at Stoddert.[/quote]

OK but there is no additional development/population coming to the Palisades/McArthur corridor and sure Key is overcrowded but it is a small school relative to Janney, Murch & Lafayette.  The population density is coming to the Wisconsin Avenue corridor and it is Hearst and Janney that are going to get a flood of new students and no amount of tinkering around the edges is going to move seats around to create capacity at those two schools. [/quote]

The Crowding Working Group recommended two elementary schools west of Rock Creek, one toward the north and one toward the south. Foxhal is the southern one, a northern one is still needed too. [/quote]

DC really missed a golden opportunity by not even considering a school on the site of the CCDC community center and library (in other words, the northern portion of Ward 3). Creative thinking, and getting rid of that wasteful surface parking lot, could have made something happen that would have worked for everyone. Instead, there will be a new community center built on the site for the 36 seniors and 3-year-old ballet students who use it. Just a complete lack of forward thinking (which I guess is why we have overcrowded W3 schools right now). [/quote]

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