DCPS students shafted again - sign petition to keep Jelleff field public
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Anonymous
It’s not over. Let councilmembers and Bowser know that you *still* care. Maret will feel regret later when they see interest dip from people who are sincerely — not faux — community-minded. |
Anonymous
How long until Maret Are gifted exclusive before-school use of the Potomac for the next ten years in exchange for clearing the driftwood from the banks of Fletcher's Cove? |
Anonymous
Oh, and Hardy... get rid of the on-site staff parking and give it to the kids for recreational needs. So selfish for staff to hoard this scarce resource. Take the Metro or bus like the rest of us or pay for commercial parking. |
Anonymous
Maret has tons more parking than Hardy. But that's not the issue. Even if Hardy had its own field the Jelleff deal would still stink. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| Typical entitled DC government bureaucrats. It’s all about their perks and other free stuff they can get. It’s seldom about the people, the kids, the customers. Putting parking ahead of play-space is selfish and disgusting. |
Anonymous
That’s absurd. Do you know who cares about parking? Hardy’s neighbors. Do you think they would allow the school to *not* have parking?! You know who else cares about parking? The students, because the best available teachers to be interested in jobs at Hardy, not just the few candidates who happen to live within walking distance or along the Wisconsin Ave bus routes. Do you even know how much parking Hardy has? Not very much. Do you know how much parking Maret has? About 4 times as much as Hardy. Do you know who has a site that can accommodate far more parking and athletic space than currently? Maret and their 7 acres. But they would rather squat on public resources and deprive less privileged kids than use their political capital and their strong ‘community’ ethos to work with their neighbors to solve their needs with their own land (like every other independent school does, except Lab). |
Anonymous
Lots of public schools don’t offer parking for teachers. Are you saying that they aren’t getting the best teachers? |
Anonymous
| Shouldn’t Hardy have the right to use the nearby DCPS field (Ellington field). Why is Hardy barred from it? |
Anonymous
Most do, or it’s feasible to park in the neighborhood, and/or they are more accessible by public transit. |
Anonymous
It’s not as nearby. It used to belong to Duke Ellington school, but just got transferred to DPR. Georgetown Univ. has some deal for some use of it. Why doesn’t Maret just drive their buses a few blocks more and use it? |
Anonymous
You do realize that DC-resident Maret parents are paying twice for education, don’t you? Once for Maret tuition and assessments and then in the substantial annual income, property as sales taxes that go to support DCPS. It a more just world, private school parents would get a tax rebate to reflect the fact that they are saving the public school system substantial money rather than using public school resources. And yes, Maret kids who live in the Hardy zone no doubt open up student placed at Hardy for kids who otherwise would be stuck with a more s...hole local middle school — and so their parents then get a chance to whine about the shocking social justice inequity that Maret gets a couple of practice hours in exchange for funding capital improvements to a field. |
Anonymous
If the alternative would be to not be able to drive at all, or have to pay significant amounts for parking (that woudl be the case at Hardy)? Yes. There would be a significant number of teachers who woudl self-select out of Hardy positions, and some of them woudl be better than the teaches at thge school. In fact, many of the people who woudl need a car would be older, more experienced teachers who have kids and for whom mass transit isn't feasible, based on their other obligations. |
Anonymous
A lot of people pay taxes to support public schools that never use them (think childless adults), just like many of us never use lots of services funded by tax dollars. If you opt out of public schools, you shouldn’t expect the city to provide the private schools facilities in the same way public schools do. And your “no doubt” is wrong. Hardy is not overcrowded (for now), so a Hardy-zoned Maret kid is not doing anyone a big favor. But the bottom line is that your lack of concern for what you consider “s...hole” schools. If they are struggling so badly, you think that is all the more reason to take resources from them? |
Anonymous
| The whole thing is disgusting. My opinion of Maret at this point is less than zero. |