DCPS students shafted again - sign petition to keep Jelleff field public

[Anonymous]

Are you watching this live? How does one tune in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you watching this live? How does one tune in?

http://dc.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=17&event_id=4169

[Anonymous]

Change dot org has the link.

[Anonymous]

I'm struggling with the logic of the speakers who assert that DCPS / DPR should take the funds they've been given to them by Maret and use them to renovate the un-used Ellington. Surely if Ellington were suitable and the funds they've given to DPR sufficient, they could give up Jelleff and move on to Ellington, no? They could do the same at Kenilworth Gardens or any manner of fields in NE/SE that are under-utilized.

[Anonymous]

DC Urban Mom just got a shout-out!

[Anonymous]

DCUM just got a whiny shout-out!!!!!! Wooooooooooooooo.

[Anonymous]

DCUM callout!

[Anonymous]

Love the "misinformation" argument, propping up their opponents as being unreasonable, without offering any piece of evidence about the topic of the contract.

[Anonymous]

He completely mischaracterizes those comparisons. We could fact-check him, but he got the thread deleted so we can't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm struggling with the logic of the speakers who assert that DCPS / DPR should take the funds they've been given to them by Maret and use them to renovate the un-used Ellington. Surely if Ellington were suitable and the funds they've given to DPR sufficient, they could give up Jelleff and move on to Ellington, no? They could do the same at Kenilworth Gardens or any manner of fields in NE/SE that are under-utilized.

Ellington isn't large enough for a high school regulation field but does work for middle school sports who according to Hardy website practice for an hour a few days a week.

[Anonymous]

These people testifying for Maret are not doing themselves any favors.

[Anonymous]

Never in the history of the world has a group of people who have done so much for humanity been so persecuted than the Maret community. And NW DC has a dire shortage of baseball fields.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These people testifying for Maret are not doing themselves any favors.

They're incredibly whiny, aren't they?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never in the history of the world has a group of people who have done so much for humanity been so persecuted than the Maret community. And NW DC has a dire shortage of baseball fields.

Jesus wept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never in the history of the world has a group of people who have done so much for humanity been so persecuted than the Maret community. And NW DC has a dire shortage of baseball fields.

Should really convert some of those baseball fields to multi-use. Too many in NW