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Anonymous wrote:Please don’t be so obtuse. The B&G club is one of the only halfway affordable after school options in the vicinity of Glover Park, Hardy, Stoddert, Hyde, and for some students from Key. There are not many options in the price range. It is half the price of the after care option at out Hardy feeder. Go check it out sometime. The kids seriously - no exaggeration- often are hanging out in the basement and they are not allowed to go use the field at the facility while Maret and others have it. It’s for real. The parents sending their kids to Hardy have the option of trying to find another house and moving to go to Deal if they want to go Deal. There is no application or lottery. It’s not a choice issue. No parent is sitting around deciding between Hardy or Deal or feeling them pitted off against each other. Public school pathways and financial realities for so much of the city seem beyond comprehension?

So maybe Jelleff is half the price because the outdoor field time is limited. Parents get a special deal as a result. What you’re saying is that Jelleff B&C should both be half the price of any other offering and have field time (when Hardy isn’t using it, I assume). You’re living in a Bernie time warp.

Anonymous wrote:Please don’t be so obtuse. The B&G club is one of the only halfway affordable after school options in the vicinity of Glover Park, Hardy, Stoddert, Hyde, and for some students from Key. There are not many options in the price range. It is half the price of the after care option at out Hardy feeder. Go check it out sometime. The kids seriously - no exaggeration- often are hanging out in the basement and they are not allowed to go use the field at the facility while Maret and others have it. It’s for real. The parents sending their kids to Hardy have the option of trying to find another house and moving to go to Deal if they want to go Deal. There is no application or lottery. It’s not a choice issue. No parent is sitting around deciding between Hardy or Deal or feeling them pitted off against each other. Public school pathways and financial realities for so much of the city seem beyond comprehension?

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Anonymous wrote:Northwest parents

Maret - Virginia and Maryland parents

www.maret.org
MaretFrogs

Maret parents in NW Washington are freeing up sought-after places in good west of the Park schools so that your kid isn’t stuck going to Malcolm X Jr High School.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwest parents

Maret - Virginia and Maryland parents

www.maret.org
MaretFrogs

Anonymous wrote:Northwest parents

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Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

The school doesn't have the land that Deal has. But one-third of the Deal students are in trailers and the class sizes and overcrowding is out of control. What's your point. Children in other middle schools in the city have lots less. Go look at the fields and facilities all around the city. That's the situation - it's a city trying to manage a whole city's worth of schools and facilities. It's not a Hardy vs. Deal like you have Maret vs. GDS vs. Sidwell etc by comparison shopping private school parents paying tuition. This is the exact point. These are PUBLIC schools. No one can go and demand nicer fields to the head of school and/or give $1mil and problem solved. Or apparently in this case, go an do under the table, behind closed doors with city officials -and problem solved!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

The school doesn't have the land that Deal has. But one-third of the Deal students are in trailers and the class sizes and overcrowding is out of control. What's your point. Children in other middle schools in the city have lots less. Go look at the fields and facilities all around the city. That's the situation - it's a city trying to manage a whole city's worth of schools and facilities. It's not a Hardy vs. Deal like you have Maret vs. GDS vs. Sidwell etc by comparison shopping private school parents paying tuition. This is the exact point. These are PUBLIC schools. No one can go and demand nicer fields to the head of school and/or give $1mil and problem solved. Or apparently in this case, go an do under the table, behind closed doors with city officials -and problem solved!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

What is pathetic is Maret claiming to be good citizens while monopolizing the Jelleff field at the expense of the kids in the after school program. Pathetic and hypocritical. At least have the intestinal fortitude to stand behind your position.

Is the level of integrity taught at Maret? Poor little rich kids with no moral compass.

So why would sane parents enroll their kids in an after school program when the kids are confined to a basement ? Or are you simply peddling BS?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

What is pathetic is Maret claiming to be good citizens while monopolizing the Jelleff field at the expense of the kids in the after school program. Pathetic and hypocritical. At least have the intestinal fortitude to stand behind your position.

Is the level of integrity taught at Maret? Poor little rich kids with no moral compass.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

The school doesn't have the land that Deal has. But one-third of the Deal students are in trailers and the class sizes and overcrowding is out of control. What's your point. Children in other middle schools in the city have lots less. Go look at the fields and facilities all around the city. That's the situation - it's a city trying to manage a whole city's worth of schools and facilities. It's not a Hardy vs. Deal like you have Maret vs. GDS vs. Sidwell etc by comparison shopping private school parents paying tuition. This is the exact point. These are PUBLIC schools. No one can go and demand nicer fields to the head of school and/or give $1mil and problem solved. Or apparently in this case, go an do under the table, behind closed doors with city officials -and problem solved!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

What is pathetic is Maret claiming to be good citizens while monopolizing the Jelleff field at the expense of the kids in the after school program. Pathetic and hypocritical. At least have the intestinal fortitude to stand behind your position.

Is the level of integrity taught at Maret? Poor little rich kids with no moral compass.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.