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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would it be possible for hardy kids to get access to deal programs not offered by hardy?  Not only for sports like crew and lacrosse, but other after school enrichment programs. [/quote]

I have in mind Hardy kids joining deal teams and after school activities.[/quote]

Are you kidding?  It's hard enough for Deal kids to get on certain Deal teams.  Combining Hardy with Deal for athletic purposes would totally put sports teams out of reach for some kids, not to mention that practical issues of ferrying kids up and down Wisconsin Avenue.  Why doesn't Hardy build out its own athletic program and other activities more??[/quote]

Sigh.  Hardy does in fact have a full slate of sports and other activities - but I wouldn't expect anyone to actually check that fact before making false implications about Hardy not having such activities.

Frankly, I think Deal has too much of an emphasis on athletic programs.   It would be a much better school if they encouraged kids to focus on academics instead of glorifying athletics so much.

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Surely you then know the answer to the oft-asked, never-answered question: where do they play?

According to the website Hardy has:
Football
Indoor and Outdoor Track
Volleyball
Basketball
Golf
Tennis
Baseball
Soccer

(http://www.hardyms.org/extracurricular/interscholastic-2ports)
Volleyball, basketball and indoor track I would presume are in the gym. Tennis, there are courts on-site. So where do the football, golf, baseball, soccer and outdoor track teams practice and play?[/quote]

Football, track, and soccer practice on the football field./track near Georgetown University, at 39th and Reservoir Rds.  Its four blocks from Hardy.

Golf presumably practices and plays at the local DC public courses like Hains Point and Rock Creek Park.  I presume that is the case for Deal too - or do they have a private golf course that they are hiding somewhere on campus?

The baseball team travels for games and practices.  They play at various places around the city - sometimes on upper NW fields, sometimes in other locations.

Now, can we move on from this absurd series of baseless claims about Hardy?[/quote]

It's perplexing then that the school hasn't asked to use Jelleff, a much nicer field that is right across the street.[/quote]

It's not perplexing if you recognize that asking would be futile; in 2010, the city made a terrible decisions to basically sell Maret the exclusive rights to the fields during after-school hours for 10 years.

Details here:  http://georgetownmetropolitan.com/2010/01/21/city-turns-over-jelleff-fields-to-maret/

Hardy and DC citizens generally got screwed by this deal, and have no choice but to eat it for the next 6 years.   But that doesn't mean Hardy has nowhere to practice or play.

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