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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another Hyde parent here: The above comment is nuts. EVERYTHING changes. I will go from being able to walk my child to school, watch them play, drop them off in the classroom, talk to the teachers, be a part of a COMMUNITY---to putting a 3 and 5 year old on a bus for an additional hour each day--time that could be spent playing, running, participating in afterschool activites or I dont know, LEARNING. Not only is the swing space NOT in our neighborhood, its not in an adjoining 10 neighborhoods, not in the same ward, might as well be on another planet as far as I'm concerned. For my family, its not happening. And for two years. Two years of total upheaval because DCPS cannot remotely get their act together and find a swing space even kinda sorta close to Georgetown. I'm more sad than anything, because it was a really great school with dedicated teachers and a group of inbound parents who actually started to care about building something great. All for a damn gym.[/quote]

This is DCPS, not Sidwell. if you want a major renovation/upgrade, you will have to live with some inconvenience for a few years. Parents at other public schools have done it and their kids were fine -- what are 2 years out of a possible 7 in one community? If you jump ship and decide to pay upwards of $30k for private, and don't want the British School or Holy Trinity, your kids also will have to face a commute. Get caught on the wrong end of the (paid) bus route and your child also spends at least half an hour commuting each way. By the way, H-A is and WILL STAY a great school with dedicated teachers and a group of parents -- all parents, not just IB -- who care about building something great! If you are so unhappy with the prospect of inconvenience because of a gym and cafeteria, that you all lobbied so hard for, you and other like-minded H-A parents lobby hard to nix the project and stay as you are. [/quote]

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