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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

DP:  You think Maret’s parking may not be big enough for a field, but Hardy should definitely magically turn their parking into a regulation playing field?!

Maret has 4 times the parking of Hardy, not to mention a campus far, far larger.

I think you are spouting talking points without ever having seen Hardy. [/quote]

A field with at least 90 percent of Jelleff could easily fit at Hardy, north to south.  The playing court could move to the eastern corner.  If DCPS is flush, then out some parking under the field or better yet, save us taxpayers some money and tell the staff to ride public transportation to work.  Anything would be better than the pathetic kindergarten-sized field that Hardy squeezes next to the staff free parking lot![/quote]

Hardy is a middle school. It really does not need a regulation field. Now if you spend money on improving a middle school for rich elite people(Georgetown and Palisade) and not do it for other schools(east of the park) it would cause problems. [/quote]

OK, so what’s your point then?  Why all of the whining that Hardy doesn’t have preferred access to Jelleff’s “regulation” field?  [/quote]

"Whining" is a strange way of characterizing objecting that the law is being broken. [/quote]

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