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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lab is private, needs a private deal I guess.  So why don't they take over the about to be empty GDS private ES space?  It's even closer to their main buildings.  They could do it much more "privately."[/quote]

The GDS lower school was bought a while ago by an academically selective private school rumored to be a apricey for-profit out of NYC. The other feasible school spot on MacArthur next to the Reservoir was bought by St Patrick's Episcopal Day School. It will house the middle school grades for a private, academically selective, religious school. Tuition at St. Pat's is about 3 times that of Catholic school Our Lady of Victory across the street from St. Pat's and Lab.

Lab, by contrast, is a nonprofit, non-religious, special education school that for 50 years educated students with learning disabilities who were not getting the free, public, and appropriate education of non-disabled students. 
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You use the word "academically selective" twice to describe other schools, so the implication is that Lab isn't. But it is. It's a private school, unlike publics it gets to choose who it admits, which includes admitting large numbers of students from Maryland and Virginia. Unlike publics it has no obligation to the society at large, its obligation is to its own community. Who it admits -- and who it gives scholarships to -- are totally at the discretion of the school.

There's nothing wrong with that, that's the way all the privates operate. But the other privates don't go around demanding that the citizens of DC -- and the public school students -- foot the bill for their facilities. [/quote]

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