Reply to Overcrowded Schools

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Overcrowded Schools"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Murch is very overcrowded, but it's slated for expansion, which might address the issue. Janney just finished its second expansion and is over-capacity upon opening. There was a lot of static from Janney families whose houses would have been moved into Hearst and the advisory committee made up an expected enrollment number that is low by about 10 percent even in the first year, and said there was no need for redrawing boundaries. Thats what happens when you have an advisory committee made up with people with aspirations for higher office.[/quote]

This is a misconception.  Murch's renovation now is needed simply to bring up to code the space for the amount of children who are enrolled.  We would need to almost triple the size of the school to fit in the students.  Murch will not have additional space and given the constraints of most of our land being NPS - we are not even sure we can renovate to properly fit our current enrollment.  We really need our boundaries redrawn![/quote]

This is sadly the crux of the problem in certain NW schools.  The plan pushes off some of the biggest shifts need to address overcrowding.  Naturally the most vocal opposition to shifting boundaries are those who will get moved.  But it will take a lot of pain from too crowded classrooms or frankly no space left at all to mobilize the rest of the schools -- at Murch and Janney -- to push for kicking some folks out.  Probably going to be an ugly process within those communities.  But quite soon the day is going to come when DCPS will be opening for the school year and there will be simply no place to put some kids.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics