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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems very little blame placed at the school - which doesn't surprise me. I think they are victims too.

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Victims of a buttload of cash and a glorious palace of a modernization?

Well come and "victimize" my school too.[/quote]

My point was the Ellington community wasn't the ones who mismanaged this or created the design any more than the students and administrators at Shepherd, Murch or any other school. [/quote]

So no one on the Ellington board of directors had the political pull to squeeze this through.  Well, then it must have just been some honest gosh darned mistakes that led us here.  Nope, nothing to see.[/quote]

I'd be willing to to believe it, but where does it say in the auditor's report that that's what happened here? I didn't see that finding. Did you?

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The report doesn't say 2 + 2 = 4.

Now, is it, or is it not?[/quote]

The report certainly talks about the Ellington board, and their preference for a new building built on Ellington Field, and the local ANC and city politicians vetoing that, which lots of back and forth over what would have cost more or less.

But the mismanagement of the design, contracting, failure to manage to milestones, etc -- is all on DGS and DCPS. That part isn't on the Ellington Board, who may well have messed it up even worse had they been in charge of it, but they weren't.

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Why would the Ellington board have wanted to build a new building on another property in Burleith, in a location which is relatively inconvenient to the majority of Ellington students?  It's not central to all areas of the city, not on the Metro and is several blocks away from what passes for a bus line.  It's not located near any performing arts venue that Ellington students might leverage.  Doesn't make sense.[/quote]

Prestige my little one... prestige.  You have much to learn about the world of the fine arts.[/quote]

The Ellington board appears to equate "classy" with bling.[/quote]

Waste close to 200 million dollars to benefit 500 students...yep, that is the FINE arts.[/quote]

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