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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Move lafayette and shepherd out of deal/wilson. Problem solved.[/quote]

To where? Lafayette has about 120 kids per class (at least k now). The next closest middle is ida b wells. From the numbers it looks like once all three grades are brought in from their current feeders, they have space for maybe 150 more kids total? So you are going to put 360 Lafayette and however many shepherd kids where exactly in wells?  [/quote]

Yup - you send Lafayette and Shepherd Park to Ida and then either Coolidge or Roosevelt though Coolidge (and the aquatic center) are right there already so you could set up a new bus route to serve both.

From Lafayette it is an 11 minute drive to Wells and a 6 minute drive to Deal.  But much of the Lafayette catchment is east of the school and hence even closer to Wells and further from Deal.

Someone please find me what cohort of kids is going to be moved to this new Middle School that will be less inconvenienced than that?

And combining those two schools with the kids in the neighborhood around Wells would get you a whiter and wealthier student body than Deal has.

So you can solve the Deal/Wilson problem in a manner that improves two sets of schools and saves DCPS a bunch of money.

Or you can go down this nutty road DCPS is embarking on that will cost a lot of money and greatly inconvenience a bunch of people and will leave some EOTP schools under enrolled all while creating a traffic nightmare in an inaccessible corner of DC and there is not even a practical way to walk or bike from the current Eaton boundaries to this proposed location.

People have been traveling across the park for decades to attend school every day.  There is no reason the privileged families of Chevy Chase can't do the same and be part of a sane solution to overcrowding.

But the DC Council has more money than courage so the chances that they do the logical thing here are probably close to zero.[/quote]

I am the poster you are responding to. Nothing about my comment was about bus lines. Those are easy to change. The comment is that they just built a new school for Ida b Wells and there is literally no room for all the Lafayette kids...by hundreds. So yes, they *could* completely renovate the school and probably would need to double the size. But are they? Is that the right investment? To refurbish the school they JUST built?  why not work on another under enrolled school instead?  Oh I know why! Because we’ve decided Chevy chase is the “right kind of rich” but the much more expensive homes in mt pleasant are “integrated” and should still keep going to Deal when they are a stone’s throw from MacFarland. (I know so many Mt Pleasant families. All white. All very rich. All want that “urban feel.” Not living in that suburban-feeling NW DC!  But bought there because it is a Deal feeder.)  [/quote]

Ok, move Lafayette, Shepherd *and* Mount Pleasant out of Deal/Wilson. Problem solved even more.[/quote]

Way to not respond to the issue at hand on relieving overcrowding at Deal by overcrowding Wells. As long as we get people out of your school, right? Who cares if Wells families want their school overcrowded and kids sitting in trailers. [/quote]

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