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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't know why you say it can't happen to 2 MSs in Ward 6. The two feeder schools to Wilson, Deal & Hardy both got expensive renovations.[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]Ward Six has ~325 of its kids in middle school. Deal is bursting at the seams with enrollment projected to be 1,300 next year. Hardy has over 500 students and has plenty of room to grow within a facility designed to accommodate a middle school If you were on the Council would you give $34 million X 3 to Ward Six and its severly underutilized schools? Of if you would only give it to two schools, which ones (Eliot Hine, Stuart Hobson or Jefferson)? Keep in mind Stuart Hobson has the fewest number of Ward Six residents. Keep in mind that Eliot Hine and Jefferson are proper middle schools, while Stuart Hobson is a retrofitted elementary school wedged into a residential area. Keep in mind that Stuart Hobson a mile from Eliot Hine.

If Stuart Hobson get is its $34 million, do you think Eliot Hine and Jefferson will get another $34 million a piece? What makes you think the Council will look favorably upon giving Ward Six all this money?[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]Besides PP's accurate assessment of the situation, writing something like this completely ignores the fact that the city budget is obviously in a different place than when those renovations were approved and undertaken, still rolling in tax dollars from years of income and property tax growth. [/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]Another problem with the naive analogy above is that Stuart-Hobson, as part of a school cluster model long past its prime, has purposefully branded itself as serving a select few, namely the Capitol Hill Cluster School. Of course the reality is different but the advocating constituents are part of that very narrow base of insiders. So it's really hard for everyone else in Ward 6 (and that's most of us waiting for a decent middle school option) to be told for years "that's our school" and "why would anyone else have a say in it but us". And now all of a sudden it should be in everybody's interest to invest in it, quite likely even at the expense of our own future. We can all talk that talk ("sure, why can't there be both, live and let live"), including our Council Member, but you don't need to do more than one step behind the scenes and the reality is different.

The saddest part is that no one will have the political courage to provide some sort of leadership that goes beyond promising everybody everything and doing nothing in the process![/quote]
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