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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd be a little more sympathetic if the request were for equity for ALL schools getting the shaft by DCPS / DGS renovations.  There are other schools similarly (or more) deserving than Murch that aren't getting renovated for years.  And the more funding that gets diverted to Murch, the less will be there for our schools.
I'd be happy to support a pledge for increasing renovation funding [b]overall[/b] so that we don't have to make dumb decisions with the Murch renovation and other high priority schools can be moved up (and done correctly).[/quote]

Oh come on, that's really unfair. Have you seen Murch? It probably should have been one of the first schools to be renovated, and I'm not a Murch parent. It bodes unwell for the entire system. Now that DGS/DCPS has been doing renovations for the past 10 years, they should know the drill.

I will be sending something out to Bowser et al. on behalf of the community tomorrow. [/quote]

Murch has been waiting patiently in line while schools all over the city have been renovated, some at least twice.  Then it watches as DCPS says they have to go back to the drawing board and chop away because another school has incurred 100% cost overruns.   Murch is hopelessly overcrowded for its present building.  I appreciate that there are other schools that are also still waiting, but some of them have excess capacity.  Having waited its turn (actually, well beyond it's turn), Murch now shouldn't have to sacrifice further because Bowser has spent the cupboard bare or based on some egalitarian notion of shared misery.[/quote]

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