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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eaton parent here:  If Principal Pride can improve Hardy in the ways she is proposing and STAYS AT HARDY, I think that prospective Hardy students and families may be pleasantly surprised.  I would much rather send my child to a smaller MS than Deal anyway.  All of this being said, I am far more concerned with the uncertainty of what high school my child may go to despite living just over a mile from Wilson.[/quote]

I have a child at Eaton and Deal.  I like everyone would prefer to keep the current option of being able to choose between the two, but I am not going to picket for keeping Deal.  Deal is getting too large, I have seen problems over the last two years in many respect with how it can do small things, serve lunch, provide access to computers and libraries.  But then I have never been someone who takes every issue as a reason to move to the burbs. [/quote]

Well, if you don't speak up, attend meetings and occasionally even picket in DC, you do pretty much get thrown under the bus.  When my kids were at Eaton, the school thought they would never get a new playground because they figured Eaton didn't "deserve" any funds from DCPS and that the the parents would have to raise all the money themselves.  When Mann was scheduled for it's second playground renovation, some Eaton parents finally had the gumption to ask Fenty and Mary Cheh to fix the playground.  And, voila, a new one was built.[/quote]

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