Faculty, student and family input on ethical issues DC privates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Enough with the virtue-signaling. Get a life.

Are you saying parents have no say? Or parents don’t care? Or shouldn’t care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Enough with the virtue-signaling. Get a life.

Are you saying parents have no say? Or parents don’t care? Or shouldn’t care?

You can take the 'signaling' out of the sentence. It should read "Enough with the virtue".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The metaphor of DCPS kids looking at Maret kids on that field is the stuff of college application essays — for both the Maret and DCPS kids. Any private school student who played on that field analyzing his/her privilege in a college essay would have a lot to work with!

Love this!

[Anonymous]

private parts are NOT to be discussed. not at school, not on dcum

[Anonymous]

Having had to try to field many PPA soccer and outdoor basketball teams for my three kids I will be the first to say it: DC Parks and Rec is ridiculous.

Permits come in at the last second; They deny permits with no reason; They deny permits on perfectly good, usable fields all the time; They don't work with teams that have various early dismissal times or nearby schools.
Bethesda and Arlington fields do not have these chronic permit issues.

I don't care about Maret taking over some field that was only willy nilly permitted half of each year. Most of DC fields, including in NW DC are vastly underutilized, despite the permit demand and paperwork being filed.

With my youngest child, PPA and I started applying to FOUR+ different NW DC fields in the hopes of getting a permit for Wed or Friday after school. Denied, denied, denied, Maybe. And we'd go by our 1st or 2nd choice field weeks in to the season - totally empty. Not getting reseeded either. Totally empty.

That's the big picture here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The metaphor of DCPS kids looking at Maret kids on that field is the stuff of college application essays — for both the Maret and DCPS kids. Any private school student who played on that field analyzing his/her privilege in a college essay would have a lot to work with!

And any student at Hardy, or at least an IB, who looks at that situation and whines about how they don't have privilege, rather than looking at their position relative the most of the city or the country, or the world, would be showing the colleges who they were and should expect to be rejected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The metaphor of DCPS kids looking at Maret kids on that field is the stuff of college application essays — for both the Maret and DCPS kids. Any private school student who played on that field analyzing his/her privilege in a college essay would have a lot to work with!

And any student at Hardy, or at least an IB, who looks at that situation and whines about how they don't have privilege, rather than looking at their position relative the most of the city or the country, or the world, would be showing the colleges who they were and should expect to be rejected.

Right, the Hardy students don’t deserve to complain, so the Maret students might as well go ahead and hoard the privilege.

[Anonymous]

The privilege here is using the field. It is obvious who has it -- and it is pretty clear why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The metaphor of DCPS kids looking at Maret kids on that field is the stuff of college application essays — for both the Maret and DCPS kids. Any private school student who played on that field analyzing his/her privilege in a college essay would have a lot to work with!

And any student at Hardy, or at least an IB, who looks at that situation and whines about how they don't have privilege, rather than looking at their position relative the most of the city or the country, or the world, would be showing the colleges who they were and should expect to be rejected.

And those Jeleff boys and girls club kids - at least they have a roof. Amirite?

There arent enough eyeroll emojis in existence to respond to these maret shills.

[Anonymous]

Yes, blame the school not the morons you elected.

[Anonymous]

That is a fair point. But one can blame the school for manipulating the morons we elected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The metaphor of DCPS kids looking at Maret kids on that field is the stuff of college application essays — for both the Maret and DCPS kids. Any private school student who played on that field analyzing his/her privilege in a college essay would have a lot to work with!

And any student at Maret, or at least an IB, who looks at that situation and whines about how they don't have privilege, rather than looking at their position relative the most of the city or the country, or the world, would be showing the colleges who they were and should expect to be rejected.

FTFY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having had to try to field many PPA soccer and outdoor basketball teams for my three kids I will be the first to say it: DC Parks and Rec is ridiculous.

Permits come in at the last second; They deny permits with no reason; They deny permits on perfectly good, usable fields all the time; They don't work with teams that have various early dismissal times or nearby schools.
Bethesda and Arlington fields do not have these chronic permit issues.

I don't care about Maret taking over some field that was only willy nilly permitted half of each year. Most of DC fields, including in NW DC are vastly underutilized, despite the permit demand and paperwork being filed.

With my youngest child, PPA and I started applying to FOUR+ different NW DC fields in the hopes of getting a permit for Wed or Friday after school. Denied, denied, denied, Maybe. And we'd go by our 1st or 2nd choice field weeks in to the season - totally empty. Not getting reseeded either. Totally empty.

That's the big picture here.

A private that charges $35k tuition is using its money to monopolize a playing field to the exclusion of many more kids who need it more. And DC DPR is ridiculous to have made this deal. That is the big picture. That you don’t care because you didn’t get what you want is exactly the attitude of Maret and Maret parents.

Tell it to the kids at the BGC program.

[Anonymous]

Can someone give a brief description of the event that occurred without commentary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone give a brief description of the event that occurred without commentary?

See
https://www.change.org/p/mayor-bowser-private-schools-should-not-have-exclusive-rights-to-public-fields-make-jelleff-public?recruiter=1000133193&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&utm_term=share_petition&recruited_by_id=80a548f0-c78e-11e9-be24-7db67d90b55a&share_bandit_exp=abi-17484774-en-US&share_bandit_var=v0