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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Typical entitled DC government bureaucrats.  It’s all about their perks and other free stuff they can get.  It’s seldom about the people, the kids, the customers.  Putting parking ahead of play-space is selfish and disgusting.[/quote]

That’s absurd.  Do you know who cares about parking?  Hardy’s neighbors.  Do you think they would allow the school to *not* have parking?!

You know who else cares about parking?  The students, because the best available teachers to be interested in jobs at Hardy, not just the few candidates who happen to live within walking distance or along the Wisconsin Ave bus routes.

Do you even know how much parking Hardy has?  Not very much.

Do you know how much parking Maret has?  About 4 times as much as Hardy.

Do you know who has a site that can accommodate far more parking and athletic space than currently?  Maret and their 7 acres.  But they would rather squat on public resources and deprive less privileged kids than use their political capital and their strong ‘community’ ethos to work with their neighbors to solve their needs with their own land (like every other independent school does, except Lab). [/quote]

You do realize that DC-resident Maret parents are paying twice for education, don’t you?  Once for Maret tuition and assessments and then in the substantial annual income, property as sales taxes that go to support DCPS.  It a more just world, private school parents would get a tax rebate to reflect the fact that they are saving the public school system substantial money rather than using public school resources.  And yes, Maret kids who live in the Hardy zone no doubt open up student placed at Hardy for kids who otherwise would be stuck with a more s...hole local middle school — and so their parents then get a chance to whine about the shocking social justice inequity that Maret gets a couple of practice hours in exchange for funding capital improvements to a field.[/quote]

You're not going to get much traction in the public schools forum arguing that private schools benefit society. [/quote]

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