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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids are better able to focus if they know they will have good outside time regularly. Proper outside space and after school programming utilizing thatspace is noticed by prospective families and, ye, teachers.[/quote]

Sports are not the be all and end all.  However, along with academic rigor,a strong curriculum, an atmosphere conducive to study and learning and a robust extracurricular program, including sports, Hardy is not going to attract families who believe that Deal has superior offerings.  If DCPS believes that free, off-street parking is so important to attract staff, then it should put the parking underground to preserve and expand student athletic space.  This is what Janney did.  Is Hardy not as worthy?

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1) Posters who suggested underground parking have either no idea of the basic cost-effectiveness principles, or never been to the Hardy site, as we are talking about a small triangular space hosting 15  cars, not 90 cars.

2) Posters who talked about safety issues at Hardy have never been inside the school. The school is, more than any other, totally unaccessible from the outside during the day. In addition to some emergency escape doors (who cannot be opened from outside), there's a security door at the entrance, which is closed and monitored through a camera ringer, plus a security officer at the entrance, who does not allow you to get in, unless you are a child or have an appointment to see someone in the school (which she checks by calling the person). This is a state-of-the art security arrangements, which are unmatched by any of the other public/private schools nearby, which would prevent any unauthorized and malevolent person to get into the school (unless he/she has a bomb to tear down the front door or side emergency exit doors).

Kids are arranged in different floors according to grade. While this is a solution that facilitates transitions to/from different classes, this also create a sense of community between kids of the same grade. The atmosphere is nice, friendly and quiet.

Bullying is a matter of kids and families attitudes and education. In the small 90% white public elementary school in Ward 3 my kids have attended, we did indeed have bullying episodes. These were pursued by white and very wealthy kids, often against more vulnerable kids, including kids from more modest socio-economic background (not the other way round). Interestingly enough, we had know problems with bullying by two brothers who were in different grades, i.e. reflecting an attitude which was somehow nested inside their wealthy and well-educated family. Bullying at Hardy is no worse that in any other DC middle school, and possibly less than that from anecdotal evidence I know . And the school as a strict and enforced policy of 'tolerance zero" against bullying.

So the safety concerns are only in your mind, not in the school facts. 
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