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sleevieb t1_j9g1ap9 wrote

Fox is the wealthiest public elementary school in the city. The fact that some poors are there doesn’t negate this fact.

It doesn’t make sense financially or otherwise to rebuild buildings that are this old or this destroyed. The building was old but not historic.

One of Richmond’s main problems is the condition of its school buildings. Mold. Leaks. Collapsing features.

The mayors major political right was to build some schools very quickly at 1.5 times the cost. This cost him the power to build schools as it is the school boards now.

There is a long history in this country of using things like “historic” and “walkable “ to segregate schooling.

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Charlesinrichmond OP t1_j9g4bhn wrote

this isn't true. Munford would like a word even before.

Look at Foxs demographics after the rezoning, facts matter.

There are a lot of myths about Fox which are based on weird emotions, not rationality and facts, as this shows. It's almost like people are insulted by the idea that RPS has some functional schools, and want to drag them all down to the same level of dysfunction

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Potential-Height582 t1_j9i5lca wrote

I don’t know that this is true. Someone else in this post cited that it’s $80m to build a new school and the repair is $25M.

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