Hardy IB Population

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at a rec soccer game this weekend at Deal and realized that Deal's field space is about 8x that of Hardy's little field. From my perspective academics should come first, but still the disparity in athletic facilities among Deal and Hardy is troubling. Does Hardy have any plan to address that -- maybe tear up some of the parking to put in more of a regular field?

Back to the parking lot, and to the comparison between a school nested in an historical district, and a school in what was not many years ago a suburban area.

Yes, they plan to do so, so that teachers will have to pay parking fees in the nearby streets. We hate to retain good teachers.

Idiot.

Should t the needs of the students come first? I don't think schools should be in the business of provding free parking to staff when student recreational and sports space is so limited. Or if parking matters so much, DCPS should put underground parking under an expanded field. That's what they paid to do at Janney.

Your sentence just shows that you have never entered into the school, and that you are wasting your time (and our time) on this board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at a rec soccer game this weekend at Deal and realized that Deal's field space is about 8x that of Hardy's little field. From my perspective academics should come first, but still the disparity in athletic facilities among Deal and Hardy is troubling. Does Hardy have any plan to address that -- maybe tear up some of the parking to put in more of a regular field?

Back to the parking lot, and to the comparison between a school nested in an historical district, and a school in what was not many years ago a suburban area.

Yes, they plan to do so, so that teachers will have to pay parking fees in the nearby streets. We hate to retain good teachers.

Idiot.

Should t the needs of the students come first? I don't think schools should be in the business of provding free parking to staff when student recreational and sports space is so limited. Or if parking matters so much, DCPS should put underground parking under an expanded field. That's what they paid to do at Janney.

Your sentence just shows that you have never entered into the school, and that you are wasting your time (and our time) on this board.

Wow, touchy much? It's telling that you can't disagree with someone without attacking the messenger.

It's hard to imagine how Hardy got a reputation as being hostile to new ideas and new families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at a rec soccer game this weekend at Deal and realized that Deal's field space is about 8x that of Hardy's little field. From my perspective academics should come first, but still the disparity in athletic facilities among Deal and Hardy is troubling. Does Hardy have any plan to address that -- maybe tear up some of the parking to put in more of a regular field?

Back to the parking lot, and to the comparison between a school nested in an historical district, and a school in what was not many years ago a suburban area.

Yes, they plan to do so, so that teachers will have to pay parking fees in the nearby streets. We hate to retain good teachers.

Idiot.

Should t the needs of the students come first? I don't think schools should be in the business of provding free parking to staff when student recreational and sports space is so limited. Or if parking matters so much, DCPS should put underground parking under an expanded field. That's what they paid to do at Janney.

Your sentence just shows that you have never entered into the school, and that you are wasting your time (and our time) on this board.

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Four sentences, not one sentence. Call Principal Pride in the morning. Perhaps they can make room for you in remedial English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people obsessed with the field just kill me. Hardy is a TINY school. It also has a tiny amount of land. Deal is a ginormas (and getting bigger by the year) school. It has more land. NEXT.

So then what do you do if your kid is I B for Hardy and is serious about outdoor sports?

You kindly explain to him the reasons why a tiny school within an historical district cannot have unlimited fields for him to play baseball. He will understand. If he does not, well , that's not an Hardy's failure.

Kids who want to play sports should appeal to the Deal principal if Hardy can't accommodate them.

[Anonymous]

From what I've read on the private school board, children who are really keen on sports usually join travel teams anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people obsessed with the field just kill me. Hardy is a TINY school. It also has a tiny amount of land. Deal is a ginormas (and getting bigger by the year) school. It has more land. NEXT.

So then what do you do if your kid is I B for Hardy and is serious about outdoor sports?

You kindly explain to him the reasons why a tiny school within an historical district cannot have unlimited fields for him to play baseball. He will understand. If he does not, well , that's not an Hardy's failure.

Kids who want to play sports should appeal to the Deal principal if Hardy can't accommodate them.

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[Anonymous]

Mary Cheh is working on revising the reassignments from Deal to Hardy. She will protect her voters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mary Cheh is working on revising the reassignments from Deal to Hardy. She will protect her voters.

Eaton parents are not her voters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mary Cheh is working on revising the reassignments from Deal to Hardy. She will protect her voters.

Eaton parents are not her voters.

You go that right, especially not this in-boundary Eaton parent.

I just wonder if Mary has any aspirations beyond ward 3. I guess not, because then she would be all over the Eaton community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at a rec soccer game this weekend at Deal and realized that Deal's field space is about 8x that of Hardy's little field. From my perspective academics should come first, but still the disparity in athletic facilities among Deal and Hardy is troubling. Does Hardy have any plan to address that -- maybe tear up some of the parking to put in more of a regular field?

Back to the parking lot, and to the comparison between a school nested in an historical district, and a school in what was not many years ago a suburban area.

Yes, they plan to do so, so that teachers will have to pay parking fees in the nearby streets. We hate to retain good teachers.

Idiot.

Should t the needs of the students come first? I don't think schools should be in the business of provding free parking to staff when student recreational and sports space is so limited. Or if parking matters so much, DCPS should put underground parking under an expanded field. That's what they paid to do at Janney.

Yes students fields for after school non academic activities is more important than a parking lot. /sarcasm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people obsessed with the field just kill me. Hardy is a TINY school. It also has a tiny amount of land. Deal is a ginormas (and getting bigger by the year) school. It has more land. NEXT.

So then what do you do if your kid is I B for Hardy and is serious about outdoor sports?

Aren't all of the serious kids on travel teams?

[Anonymous]

There is no metro near Hardy-most teachers live outside DC. If they don't drive, they take more than one bus, bike (which depending on where you live outside DC could be quite difficult) or drive. The parking lot is therefore more important than another field, since getting good teachers to the school is essential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mary Cheh is working on revising the reassignments from Deal to Hardy. She will protect her voters.

This is laughable.

First, Cheh has thousands of constituents who have been in-bounds for Hardy for decades and she hasn't done anything for them. Second, at the start of the boundary process, Cheh said categorically there was one school that would not be moved out of Deal -- Lafayette, which is not in her ward, but is in Bowser's Ward 4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mary Cheh is working on revising the reassignments from Deal to Hardy. She will protect her voters.

Eaton parents are not her voters.

You go that right, especially not this in-boundary Eaton parent.

I just wonder if Mary has any aspirations beyond ward 3. I guess not, because then she would be all over the Eaton community.

Cheh was at Eatn yesterday during voting and got an earful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mary Cheh is working on revising the reassignments from Deal to Hardy. She will protect her voters.

This is laughable.

First, Cheh has thousands of constituents who have been in-bounds for Hardy for decades and she hasn't done anything for them. Second, at the start of the boundary process, Cheh said categorically there was one school that would not be moved out of Deal -- Lafayette, which is not in her ward, but is in Bowser's Ward 4.

Cheh wants to build a new Ward 3 middle school. She realizes that while Hardy is a useful relief for OOB students, her constituents expect more.