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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS should just completely junk these plans.

Unless children are in person in standard classroom settings the crowding problem may take care of itself as people opt to move to the suburbs, go to charters, or for those who can afford it, go private.

Why would you buy a building without a plan?

The neighborhood is transit inaccessible because it wants to be "exclusive." GDS realized that it was a poor property for this and other reasons. That is why they sold.

Just because something is available to purchase doesn't mean you should buy it. What incredibly poor planning.

Now there is a site that few want to send their children to -- the justification is some parents told them to buy. Who are these parents? What was the strategy?

DCPS can be so frustrating and disappointing all at once.[/quote]

I love to rag on DCPS and their botching of the re-opening as much as the next DCUMer, but come on . . . Yes, the DL fiasco did public education in this city no favors, but odds are that schools in Ward 3 will be as overcrowded in a couple of years as they have ever been. And if they don't take opportunities to acquire assets and schools get overcrowded as a result, then it will be folks like you accusing them to plan properly (especially given that demographic projections show that the problem is only going to get worse). I don't doubt that they have a plan of what to use the GDS site for, but are just going through a consultation charade because announcing decisions without a consultation charade isn't kosher. The GDS site isn't perfect, but what site is? Hardy on Wisconsin with a single under-sized playing field? Lord & Taylor on the very edge of the space with no green space whatsoever? The neighborhood is in a transit rut but one that is easily fixable. The old Palisades Trolley Trail runs right by the site, for goodness sake. Making the D5 a regular service is a stroke of the pen. Just because are as they are doesn't mean they must stay that way forever.[/quote]

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