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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to hear more from MacArthur High School parents. We're considering a condo in Glover Park and our kid will be in 9th this Fall.

Kid is quiet, into music, a bit sporty but not super competitive.

Thoughts on music program?

Are all sports cut or are there some sports -- or even sport clubs -- where all kids can participate?

I see so many mixed reviews -- disorganized, student behavior issues, poor teachers, etc. But then people here say, "Well, my friend's kid likes it."

Which is it?!! :)[/quote]

So there are old neighbors - met some this week - who oppose the school and always will because...they just don't want it there. Most of us with kids at Hardy (feeding to MHS) and those with kids at MHS are happy and hear from families with kids there (lots of hardy kids with older sibs) that it is well-run, excellent teachers, small and everyone knows you. Sounds good to me. In a couple years if it draws 50% or more of the graduating Hardy 8th grade class which is on track to be majority neighborhood inboundary kids, it will be a neighborhood high school that of course welcomes and supports kids from all over. [/quote]

The Foxhall neighborhood is dominated by a few interesting characters who spent much of the pandemic trying to convince the city not to build a public elementary school in their neighborhood and to instead use the buildings that now house MacArthur HS for an elementary school. Thanks to the city’s budgetary crisis and the activism that resulted from showering very gullible people with a relentless stream of falsehoods, the plan to build the elementary school has largely gone away. They are now turning their attention to MacArthur HS in the hope of getting it moved.[/quote]

To be fair, it never made sense for a new ES there. They redirected the money to add classrooms to the walkable Stoddert.[/quote]

Has anyone in Glover Park - or anyone else - explained why their kids deserve a walkable elementary school and families in Foxhall do not?

Elementary school students in Foxhall have to travel farther than anyone else in the city - along congested and dangerous arterial roads such as Foxhall Rd and MacArthur Blvd - just to get to their in-boundary school.

It's disgusting that families in Glover Park lobbied against a solution to this just to make their school a little nicer. And then further screwed over MacArthur HS kids throughout Ward 3 by lobbying against the creation of a new bus that would get them to their high school.

I don't think I've ever seen such appalling beggar-thy-neighbor from any other neighborhood in DC. [/quote]

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