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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh. there are 1700 kids at Wilson. My high school had 2500. Just expand the building...[/quote]

Very hard to do at this site, unless Wilson wants to give up its track and field.

It would be better to reopen Western High School at the Duke Ellington site instead of expanding Wilson further.  Move Ellington to a more central location near a Metro stop, as its students come from around the city.  A new WOTP high school could move right into the building with very little reconfiguration.  [/quote]

Ellington is not moving. The building is setup for arts classes. Much of the site is the massive, state of the art theater for performances.

I don't see how it can be re-configured into a "normal" high school without throwing away another $50m-100m. The Ellington ship has sailed, Bowser said so in my neighborhood meeting just a few weeks ago.

However, the old Western HS track and field is severely under-utilized. It is a large piece of property just two blocks from Duke Ellington. DESA uses it for occassional marching band practice, but since the school no longer fields any sports teams it's mostly just used as a community field for rec league sports. This is prime surplus DCPS property - if there is another WoTP high school, I imagine it will go here. It will likely be an application school, since no Charter could afford to buy the property and develop it from scratch.[/quote]

The Ellington ship has sailed, and let's hope that a few people get thrown in the brig as a result -- for kickbacks and corruption!  How else to explain the obscene cost overruns for this project?[/quote]

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