The Wilson pool is still closed: what a travesty, and it’s Muriel Bowser’s fault.

[Anonymous]

Before it closed there were a LOT of locker break-ins and thefts. Which sucked. When it opened was not like that.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a new pool a short walk away in Hearst Park. Ward 3 people are such whiners with their First World problems.

That one is outdoor ... Wilson is ... indoor. It's December.

Jeez.

Ward 3 needs to be more welcoming, accept sacrifice, and share the burden.

Yes, Ward 3 residents should swim outside in December just like residents of every other ward.

I'm confused by whether this is all sarcasm or not ^
If DC took the trouble to build a pool, they should also take the trouble to maintain it. Also, don't JR kids (who pretty much come from all over) use the pool for swim team etc? Also, there is city swim team practice and public lessons there. These pools are for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Before it closed there were a LOT of locker break-ins and thefts. Which sucked. When it opened was not like that.

There was also at least one sexual assault in the locker room.

[Anonymous]

There was also a spate of human faeces on the benches outside from the "campers" in the vicinity. Hopefully the pool was heavily chlorinated. How our politicians hold their heads up, I don't know. They could legislate and address some of this .

[Anonymous]

What legislation is missing to effectively run DPR? Because this just seems like Mayor Bowser not being able to effectively run out city. But the bucks stops over there I guess?

Anonymous wrote:There was also a spate of human faeces on the benches outside from the "campers" in the vicinity. Hopefully the pool was heavily chlorinated. How our politicians hold their heads up, I don't know. They could legislate and address some of this .

[Anonymous]

To be fair, DPW has been a cluster from its very beginning and every mayor and city council has failed to do anything real to fix the department.

But yes, responsibility is on Bowser now and we know she never does anything to benefit Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a new pool a short walk away in Hearst Park. Ward 3 people are such whiners with their First World problems.

That one is outdoor ... Wilson is ... indoor. It's December.

Jeez.

Ward 3 needs to be more welcoming, accept sacrifice, and share the burden.

Ward 3 funds DC. I think we share the burden just fine, thank you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, DPW has been a cluster from its very beginning and every mayor and city council has failed to do anything real to fix the department.

But yes, responsibility is on Bowser now and we know she never does anything to benefit Ward 3.

Wilson should be repaired by now, but as someone who lives near Takoma pool, it took a solid 7 months longer than planned for them to finish repairs. It's not an attack on Ward 3 that the Wilson pool repair is dragging, it's par for the course.

As to the bolded, you guys literally *just* got an additional high school to avoid anyone being redistricted out of the only coveted by-right high school in the District. Take a breath and stop feeling sorry for yourself. There are zero freaking labor and delivery wards east of the river, you can trade lap swimming for jumping jacks for a season without the hair shirt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a new pool a short walk away in Hearst Park. Ward 3 people are such whiners with their First World problems.

That one is outdoor ... Wilson is ... indoor. It's December.

Jeez.

Ward 3 needs to be more welcoming, accept sacrifice, and share the burden.

Ward 3 funds DC. I think we share the burden just fine, thank you

+1. The Ward 3 hate is thinly veiled racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a new pool a short walk away in Hearst Park. Ward 3 people are such whiners with their First World problems.

That one is outdoor ... Wilson is ... indoor. It's December.

Jeez.

Ward 3 needs to be more welcoming, accept sacrifice, and share the burden.

Ward 3 funds DC. I think we share the burden just fine, thank you

+1. The Ward 3 hate is thinly veiled racism.

Nah, it’s not thinly veiled at all.

It’s MC white people hating UMC/UC white people. Nothing is veiled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a new pool a short walk away in Hearst Park. Ward 3 people are such whiners with their First World problems.

That one is outdoor ... Wilson is ... indoor. It's December.

Jeez.

Ward 3 needs to be more welcoming, accept sacrifice, and share the burden.

Ward 3 funds DC. I think we share the burden just fine, thank you

+1. The Ward 3 hate is thinly veiled racism.

Nah, it’s not thinly veiled at all.

It’s MC white people hating UMC/UC white people. Nothing is veiled.

Wake up guys, a new self-serving Newspeak definition of racism just dropped.

[Anonymous]

I saw Matt Frumin yesterday and someone asked him about Wilson Pool.
He said something about putting in a new HVAC.
Anyone here can call his office and they should be able to answer the WHY question

[Anonymous]

The HVAC is being installed because the previous HVAC was not adequately dehumodifying the pool. This summers upening hours were intermittent because of the same reason. There was a temp chiller truck parked alongside the pool for most of the summer. The permanent new HVAV arrived and now needs to be installed.

Unfortunately it takes DPW months to get a one weekend project done. Could you imagine a commercial structure taking months to replace HVAC. They just pay to close the road and crane the new one in. DPW moves the unit on site, then waits. Then orders a crane then waits...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As to the bolded, you guys literally *just* got an additional high school to avoid anyone being redistricted out of the only coveted by-right high school in the District. Take a breath and stop feeling sorry for yourself. There are zero freaking labor and delivery wards east of the river, you can trade lap swimming for jumping jacks for a season without the hair shirt.

This shows you don’t understand the situation at all. There is plenty of room at Jackson-Reed for all in-boundary students from both Hardy and Deal. No in-boundary families needed to be redistricted at all. There’s even plenty of room there for all in-boundary students and hundreds of out-of-boundary students at Jackson-Reed. What there wasn’t room for was all the in-boundary students and the 700+ out-of-boundary students D.C. was sending there.

Jackson-Reed was overcrowded - the the point where kids were having classes in utility rooms - because D.C. policies had it stuffed with OOB students, with the in-bound Ward 3 students suffering. MacArthur was opened because instead of lowering the percentage of non-Ward 3 students in Ward 3 schools, the city decided it would rather kick out some in-bound (and OOB) students from Jackson-Reed so that Ward 3 had two hybrid local/commuter high schools, instead of one local highschool.

The whole purpose of MacArthur is to help the non-Ward 3 students going to Ward 3 for school, at the expense of local Ward 3 students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As to the bolded, you guys literally *just* got an additional high school to avoid anyone being redistricted out of the only coveted by-right high school in the District. Take a breath and stop feeling sorry for yourself. There are zero freaking labor and delivery wards east of the river, you can trade lap swimming for jumping jacks for a season without the hair shirt.

This shows you don’t understand the situation at all. There is plenty of room at Jackson-Reed for all in-boundary students from both Hardy and Deal. No in-boundary families needed to be redistricted at all. There’s even plenty of room there for all in-boundary students and hundreds of out-of-boundary students at Jackson-Reed. What there wasn’t room for was all the in-boundary students and the 700+ out-of-boundary students D.C. was sending there.

Jackson-Reed was overcrowded - the the point where kids were having classes in utility rooms - because D.C. policies had it stuffed with OOB students, with the in-bound Ward 3 students suffering. MacArthur was opened because instead of lowering the percentage of non-Ward 3 students in Ward 3 schools, the city decided it would rather kick out some in-bound (and OOB) students from Jackson-Reed so that Ward 3 had two hybrid local/commuter high schools, instead of one local highschool.

The whole purpose of MacArthur is to help the non-Ward 3 students going to Ward 3 for school, at the expense of local Ward 3 students.

Or, you don't understand the situation (or more likely, like most people who cry about Ward 3 in the same breath as Jackson-Reed on this board, you don't know the Ward boundaries). The boundaries for Deal and J-R are not inside of Ward 3. They're not, and have never been, Ward 3 schools. They are not *your* schools - a huge number of Ward 4 students are in-bounds for Deal and J-R. There's no "in-bound Ward 3 students suffering" because "in-bound Ward 3 students" is a demographic you just invented (or again: don't understand what you're arguing about).

Either there's room for all the in-boundary students at Deal and J-R (which includes Ward 4 students, WHO ARE IN-BOUNDS) or there's redistricting required, but there's no such thing as "there's room for all the in-bound Ward 3 students without redistricting." If you limit it to Ward 3 students, you'd need to . . . wait for it . . . redraw the districts!

Boo hoo your planned pool construction is not moving at a faster pace than other Wards' identical work orders. Truly you are the most oppressed among us.