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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]
As for those parents who ordered a Hardy Pizza, hold the Pope, it should have been obvious that there was going to be a crash. They understood that the delivery driver had a record of reckless driving.
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"Should have been obvious"?  Please. You're grasping. I know you desperately want to blame the in-boundary parents but the facts just aren't there. No one is happy about the way Hardy turned out, and I'm sure everyone involved would love the chance to do it over.  But before you go casting stones, consider the timeline:

[b]Spring 2006 -- Candidate Fenty campaigns in Ward 3, promises that if elected Pope will be removed as principal at Hardy.[/b]
January 2007 -- Fenty sworn in as mayor
June 2007 -- Mayor given authority over schools
July 2007 -- Michelle Rhee confirmed as Chancellor
February 2009 -- Rhee meets with Key parents
December 2009 -- Rhee announces that Pope will be leaving Hardy in June 2010
September 2010 -- Fenty defeated in primary by Vincent Gray

The pizza order was placed long before the driver was hired. By the fall of 2009 Fenty was getting heat from his Ward 3 supporters to carry through on his promise from 3 1/2 years earlier. By then Fenty's re-election prospects were starting to dim and he realized that he needed to shore up support in Ward 3.  I won't take anything away from Rhee's capability to cut corners and leave messes, but I believe it was Fenty who rushed things at Hardy, with disastrous results. If you talk to anyone who worked for the city in the Fenty years that was totally his MO, pushing his subordinates to rush things out before they were ready, usually with an ensuing fiasco.[/quote]

It was a Fenty campaign promise?  I've read a lot of press and comments about Hardy and that's the first time I heard that one.[/quote]

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