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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy needs to build its own field.  The administration and the parents need to grow a pair and demand that DCPS fund it.[/quote]

Deflect and distract.

Address the needs of the other nine parties who wish to share the Jelleff facilities. [/quote]

+1 Or explain why Maret can't afford a field of its own like other private schools despite not having to pay any taxes to DC.[/quote]

Maret has a field for K-12.  Unfortunately they have no room for a second field and can’t level out and turf the front lawn because the mansion house is a national historic landmark. C[/quote]

So what?  They could buy or rent a private piece of land nearby. Or move their parking lot underground like Sidwell did.  Or move campuses altogether like GDS and Sidwell have done, when their prior campuses proved insufficient.  Maret's inability to do any of this just shows it's a third rate private school with poor planning and administration.[/quote]

If I were associated with Hardy, I’d think twice before tossing around pejoratives like “third rate school.”  No one from Upper Northwest Washington, given a free choice between Hardy and Deal, would choose Hardy.  DC has had to resort to compelling more Northwest kids to go to Hardy by gerrymandering the boundaries.  Hardy’s prime distinction is that it is better than some other DC middle schools that are truly awful.  It’s sad the way that Hardy still seems stuck in the Eighties or Nineties with its uniforms, a fad from that era that unruly urban schools embraced in an attempt to instill discipline, along with midnight basketball.  Jelleff may still be available if Hardy wants to run a midnight hoops game.  Maret probably would graciously step aside at that hour.  :)[/quote]

Yeah whatever Maret bot. At least we're not paying $40K a year for a school that can't even find a field without mooching off of DC taxpayers.   And the fact that you think that the only DC public school or community organization that wants to use Jelleff (despite many posts and news articles citing that Eaton, Mann, Hardy Hyde-Addison, Stoddert and the DC boys and Girls club have also asked to use the field) shows that Maret didn't teach you reading comprehension.  Maybe you should ask for a tuition refund until you grasp basic literacy.  [/quote]

+1  It's like the Maret posters can't grasp that more than one public school might want to use a scarce public resource.  It doesn't say much for their intelligence.  Plus that Maret poster is a straight on elitist obnoxious privileged a**.[/quote]

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