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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Buying the building is fine, but the idea of moving MacArthur HS there now is nuttier than the original decision to put the school there in the first place. This idea - and the uncertainty it will create - will completely scuttle MacArthur for the foreseeable future and therefore J-R as well. It's really dumb stuff.[/quote]

No it isn't. It makes zero sense to have an essentially private public school on the furthest west, non metro accessible corner of the city. That property can become the new elementary school so Hardy Park doesn't have to be developed.[/quote]

It also makes zero sense to have two public high schools within a 5 minute drive. The location is great for those in Chevy Chase and Cathedral Heights, but it'd be a disaster for almost every in-boundary family in the Hardy feeder pattern. Hardy Park was never going to be touched by the Foxhall ES plans - that the park needed "saving" was a myth propagated by scurrilous NIMBYs who didn't want a public school anywhere near them. It's a shame that you apparently bought into it.[/quote]

You would change the feeder pattern for J-R and this school into a form that would make more sense.[/quote]

Change it however you like and you are still left with 'neighborhood' schools a single Metro stop and five minutes drive away from one another in a low-density part of the city. MacArthur isn't a great location, but if you're going to acquire Intelsat and shutter MacArthur HS [b]it'd make more sense to incorporate the Intelsat campus into a mega-Jackson Reed HS and reap all of the economies of scale that would entail[/b]. Either than or make Intelsat a city-wide school and retain MacArthur as the high school for the Hardy feeder. But apparently there ain't the funding for building out MacArthur and acquiring Intelsat because the mayor has other priorities.[/quote]

A "mega-Jackson Reed HS" sounds positively lovely.  And it's no doubt much easier to scale mediocrity than achieve quality.  Moreover, it would be in keeping with the spirit of Bowser's pledge of "Alice Deal for all."  Mission accomplished![/quote]

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