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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maret claims it would “impossible” to increase the field space on their 7 acre campus.  It would undoubtedly be difficult (I used to live in the neighborhood) but or course it’s not impossible. It would be no harder and far more just than the “solutions” the Maret people keep suggesting for Hardy.[/quote]

+1 When they weren't busy ticking off their bullet points boo-hooing how they are victims of meanings on social media, Maret witnesses were so happy to blather on about alternatives and solutions. Gee thanks. Thanks for telling Hardy how it should install an underground parking lot and bulldoze all it's green space in order to build something new so that they can avoid having to share space that my tax dollars pay for. [/quote]

The worst was the Maret dad who stated that he looked into how much it would cost to bury the parking lot under an expanded field at Hardy: "Based on my preliminary estimates and research, it will cost about $5 million dollars to build an underground parking garage and expand the field."

Yes, entitled asshat. Hardy has $5m just sitting around while you monpolize a piece of land that is easily worth $20m (which your school did not buy). [/quote]

My favorite was the Maret person who explained that since Maret students live all over the city, it was necessary that their sports teams practice right after school and very near the school, because the Maret students needed to get home for dinner and homework.

Astounding.[/quote]

Oh Maret is so bad unlike the Hardy parents land grab.  :roll: The demographics of the IB schools to Hardy are some of the wealthiest in the city. So Georgetown’s and Palisade’s middle school gets a DPR recenter and field. The rest of DCPS middle schools get nothing. Even better DPR can pay for Hardy’s new facility. Maybe DPR can lay-off some more employees or cut programs East of the Park so Hardy can have a sport facility almost as big as Wilson has? DCPS will not spend one dime to maintain that facility.

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[b]DCPS and DPR are the same city government. Who pays for what is accounting[/b]. Hardy is a public school. Maret, a private school for families that have opted out of city schools, is not entitled to jump to the front of the line for public resources. Hardy parents may be in a land grab, but that’s a negotiation with the other city and city sponsored entities that are competing for resources. Maret, per city rules, doesn’t even rank in the discussion. So they called in chits and skipped the line. Bad look, not getting any better no matter how defensive they get.[/quote]

Who pays for what is accounting?? Spoken like a person who has never ventured into real work. If they were the same, why create two agencies instead of one? It's because they serve two different purposes. DPR serves in the best interest of the PUBLIC not entitled Hardy middle school parents. [/quote]

Hardy is a PUBLIC school. Maybe they don’t win in a fair allocation, but we don’t know that because there hasn’t been one. Maret definitely doesn’t. And, yes, who pays for what is accounting. My kids go to a DCPS school where the playground is DPR. It works.[/quote]

The public is not the same as a public school. Maret wins the allocation because it has invested in the field and will maintain it for PUBLIC use. DCPS and Hardy school will not. DPR has to choose the one that best serves the interest of the public. [/quote]

Can you please differentiate between the PUBLIC  tax dollars that are allocated for DPR vs. those that are allocated for DCPS/Hardy and/or help the general PUBLIC understand the difference where their PUBLIC tax dollars go?[/quote]

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