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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This will not happen at Hearst because there is only room for 2 classes per grade even in the new school.[/quote]

For now. Which means either bigger classes or cramming extra class rooms into other space (or trailers), right?[/quote]

Right.  And while semantically correct that Hearst did not expand the new building enrollment beyond the capacity of the old building and the trailers, they had added trailers as enrollment (80 plus % out of boundary students) grew.  [/quote]

Essentially DCPS has enlarged a school knowing that it is some distance from where the overwhelming majority of the students live.  Wouldn't a smarter decision have been to modernize and improve the local schools in the neighborhoods where the kids actually live?[/quote]

Those neighborhood schools haven't had the political mojo to make that happen because the entire modernization process has been poorly managed. The schools completely overlooked by modernization are largely clustered in the poorest neighborhoods in DC.  Modernization won't entirely solve the OOB issue for underserved students, but DCPS has forced the hands of those IB families seeking better options by coupling poor neighborhood options with decrepit facilities [/quote]

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