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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Selfish WTU staff won’t surrender any of their parking free stuff so that Hardy students have a proper field to practice and play on.  They can’t take public transportation or pay for parking like most of us do. But you knew that.  In DC, ask not what DC government can do for you.  Ask what we all have to do for DC government employees.[/quote]

Maret should dig up their parking lot, put in underground parking and turf it. Or buy a nice parcel to call their own. Can’t they afford it?[/quote]

Yes they should, although I’m not sure that the parking lot is big enough.  But that doesn’t excuse Hardy staff from hoarding their free on-site parking perks when eliminating the lot and moving the court to the East would allow Hardy to put in a large playing field.  It is unseemly that Hardy should have to beg - whether from DPR for Jelleff or from Duke Ellington - to find a practice field.  Hardy should and could have their own field on school property.  So long as DCPS under invests in Hardy, including short-cutting athletic facilities, Hardy will be a second-tier, also-ran to Deal, etc.[/quote]

I get the feeling the PP thinks that public schools are just shabbier versions of private schools. So let me lay it out for you: the administration at a public school doesn't have say over how the facilities are used, and even if they did, they wouldn't be consulting the parents. DC Public Schools is an agency of the DC government, so one school getting resources from another is hardly "begging." It's not like, say, Maret begging St. Alban's to use their track. Nor is getting resources from another agency of the DC government "begging." Since Hardy has no outdoor athletic facilities of its own, the only ways it gets to use them now is either from other DCPS schools or DPR. So there's nothing new or unusual about Hardy wanting to use Jelleff or Ellington, they're just looking to use facilities a little closer than the ones they use now.  [/quote]

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