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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a Maret parent, but I would say that most parents who I know in Upper Northwest feel quire positively toward Maret.  Maret has a reputation for being a nice, balanced academic environment. It is generally known that Maret spent a lot of money improving Jelleff for everyone and folks have no problem with Maret getting a reasonable benefit for its investment.  Hardy was already facing an uphill battle in Upper NW to be taken seriously.  People vaguely think that it has moved a bit although not far enough from the time a decade or more ago when “old Hardy” decidedly did not want to be “gentrified “ by more upper middle class families from Northwest.  The campaign against Hardy has reopened old suspicions that the Hardy community is still a hostile, resentful  place.  It also hasn’t helped the school that some (hopefully few) loud “boosters” found it necessary to highlight how Hardy’s facilities are so lacking.  People knew that the school wouldn’t be in Deal’s league academically for a while, if ever.  It clearly can’t be in Deal’s league athletically, either.[/quote]

Maret got a reasonable benefit, they got the ten years they agreed to.

What really irks me is the line of reasoning that we should be giving away valuable public real estate to private schools because they're "nice people." And that public school shouldn't get resources because they are "not nice people."[/quote]

Especially since it's pretty clear that "nice" is code for "rich and powerful."[/quote]

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