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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get this talk about Maret being in financial trouble.  That certainly is not the case.  If Maret made any mistakes, it was in not making an offer to buy the Hardy property cheap, when Hardy was basically a small failing urban school that no one in Northwest Washington would even go near.[/quote]

Lol so stupid [/quote]

There was a time when Hearst was failing also and headed for closure, and there was talk of selling the property to a private school.[/quote]

That's the context of all of this. DCPS went from almost 150,000 kids in 1968 to slightly over 45,000 in 2008. Not coincidentally, 2008 was the year DCPS hit its post-WWII low enrollment, and 2009 was when this deal started. It wasn't the case that kids were leaving for private school; the city was losing families at a rapid rate. It's the same reason that the Boys and Girls Club happened to go bankrupt that year, there just weren't kids in the city any more. As a result the city had too many schools, too many libraries, too many rec centers and too many Boys and Girls Clubs. The city sold off dozens of schools, and was basically willing to turn rec centers over to anyone who would look after them. Since 2008 the city has had a baby boom, particularly in the western part of the city, and all of a sudden those schools and parks that were surplus a decade ago are in short supply.[/quote]

Context for the original deal (though it was still a backroom, sweetheart deal). But the renewal flies in the face of current context.[/quote]

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