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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, i think the High School will open and the foxhall ES will be cancelled.

I don't understand why the city doesn't just double Stoddert? The neighborhood want that (then they could offer PK3). There is enough room on the site to so and there will be minimal traffic impact since nearly everyone walks. I think they should ban driving drop-offs for all non-disabled students.[/quote]

If Stoddert was expanded to offer PK3, could we make sure that they include enough room to enroll the GP parents who are crying to all-and-sundry about some nightmare they had but which doesn't exist and clamoring that they absolutely positively deserve a walkable community school (which they already have and which no one is threatening to take away from them) while maintaining that it is absolutely fine for families in Foxhall to not have a walkable community school?  I don't want to get my hopes up, but it would be fantastic if Stoddert could build into the PK3 curriculum lessons about how stealing from your neighbors to pad your own nest is not the way that children in the higher grades of elementary school - let alone adults - are expected to behave.[/quote]

The only 'plan' DCPS has proposed has 144 stoddert students moving to foxhall. With travel changing from a 2 minute walk to a 2 mile drive. Until DCPS gives us an alternative, we aren't going to rely on a 'trust us' from DCPS...[/quote]

You do know that every single family in the proposed Foxhall zone drives to school right now, don't you? And most of Key...and Mann...You are not special. Foxhall deserves a walkable ES just like GP. Key, Mann and Stoddert students deserve a pressure release valve for overcrowding. Something's gotta give, and it might just be a couple of your border streets. [/quote]

According to the only proposal from DCPS, 155 students will see an decrease in distance and 222 will see and increase in distance. So on average, fewer students will be able to walk to school. This is due to how suburban Key/Foxhall are and how dense Glover Park is.

Show me a plan where that isn't true.[/quote]

No plan has been proposed. Full stop. Stop spreading lies. Coward. [/quote]

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