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"Every workable plan"? Give me a f*ing break. More beggar-thy-neighbor fearmongering, absolutely divorced from the facts.

You got your school, let the kids in Foxhall have theirs.
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The main fact here is that no one knows what the catchment area for the new school will be, until DCPS puts it forward.  It's also a fact that the money for Stoddert is an expansion in space, but not students.  There's no 'you got yours' going on here.

On the 'will split Glover Park and Stoddert' side:
-[b]The number of students for Foxhall doesn't work without the Glover Park kids[/b]
-DCPS/CWG 'example' catchment did so
-DCPS/CWG was dishonest about the distance from Glover Park to the new school (hike through the park, not on streets)
-DCPS/CWG defended this catchment at all meetings
-The DCPS/CWG analysis of the proposed schools used this catchment
-Stoddert's renovation money was originally moved to fund the purchase of Foxhall

On the 'will not split Glover Park and Stoddert' side:
-Anonymous CWG members on this board, and CWG members hurling wild personal attacks on listservs, say it won't
-Stoddert had the money for renovation put back in, but it's [u]not an expansion[/u], it just moves students from trailers to a building

Everyone can decide which side is more likely to be right.

So yes, I'm happy for the kids in Foxhall to have a school, don't do it at the expense of Glover Park!
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At the CWG, DCPS said there were enough existing DCPS kids living within 1.1 miles of Foxhall to fill the school. So stop your fearmongering, the new school works without Stoddert kids.

And what is this "DCPS/CWG" entity you refer to in four of your bullet points?
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CWG included students having to cut through glover park and some who live .1 mi from stoddert.[/quote]

Enough nonsense. CWG had nothing to do with this map. Someone asked DCPS to put together some possible boundaries. They quickly produced the example map just for illustrative purposes. The example map was panned and they never produced another one, having learned that even a silly response to a request will be used as cannon fodder.

NO BOUNDARIES HAVE BEEN REMOTELY PROPOSED. Stop claiming otherwise Lauren. [/quote]

where did the # of students within 1.1 mi of the new Foxhall school come from? You need a base map for that. [/quote]

DCPS knows the address of every one of their current students. They have mapping software, they can do things like "give me every student with distance x of this point." When talking about it, they were studious not to say where those students precisely lived. Student privacy restrictions keep them from talking about even things like how many students are on a block. [/quote]

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