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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, I said this down thread. Get over yourselves Hyde parents and do your best to embrace this change. There are schools with worse facilities EOTP who would be happy to take your renovation dollars.[/quote]

As a H-A parent, I'd be perfectly happy letting them have it. The school gains a gym and loses a community. For many of us, that counts as a net loss. If the money could be spent actually [b]enhancing[/b] the quality of a more needy school EotP, then let them have it.

[quote=Anonymous]We're sorry your school is going to be disrupted, but it is a public school and part of a system. We're sorry for the PK parents who will miss out on a nice neighborhood experience to launch their snowflakes' school careers. The system says it's time for your upgrade - and they have a swing space 2.3 miles away that will work. I repeat - you're not in a private system. Your outrage is unproductive.[/quote]

Maybe you should re-sit grade school civics. Attempting to hold elected officials (and their appointees) to account for illogical, non-transparent decision-making that will potentially damage good schools is unproductive? For who exactly? The contractors?

Good luck next time in the not-too-distant future when you are on the receiving end of appalling and [b]capricious[/b] DCPS decision-making . . . I'm sure we'll have your back just as you've had ours.

[/quote]Different poster here.  I understand you're upset and in your situation I might feel some of that myself.  But this is how DCPS has been handling renovations.  There's nothing capricious about it.  It's not like they're subjecting H-A to something that other school populations haven't endured.  My kid was at Hardy when it was renovated.  Some families chose to send their kids elsewhere because they didn't want to travel to the swingspace (Hamilton).  Other families chose to suck it up and go there.  It was certainly less convenient for us because even though we were OOB it was not near my husband's office and there wasn't a bus that went directly by the school that my kid could take.

I get that it bothers you and it sucks.  But you're acting a bit too victimized as if DCPS were meting out a punishment to the H-A families that they didn't give to families at other schools.[/quote]

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