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

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11/04/2019 06:00

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

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t Hardy have the right to use the nearby DCPS field (Ellington field). Why is Hardy barred from it?

Shouldn't Hardy have the right to use the nearby DPR field instead of driving halfway across the city to use other DPR fields?

The only sport traveling to practice across town is baseball. They should be practicing up the street in glover park. The fall soccer teams practice for one hour three days a week and play home games at deal. So overblown that kids are traveling all over the city. True they are traveling to “away” games which are in other parts of the city.

Hardy is not the problem. Maret taking Jelleff field during after school hours is the problem. If hardy did all the things Maret supporters want — plow under their parking, use Ellington, stop complaining — there are plenty of other DC public schools and after school programs that could use that field.

+1. It’s so strange how Maret supports have an extensive list of what Hardy and others should be doing differently, yet Maret is the only one doing something egregiously unethical in this scenario.

+1. The Maret jelleff original 2010 deal was controversial and called a sweetheart deal by some. You would think that a school that receives $50k/year in tuition and has ample money to spend could have found a more publicly palatable option in the last decade for its playing field than a second backroom deal to secure a public park.

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I love how it’s gone from $45,000 to $50,000 tuition when it’s actually $39,000. And Hardy is the problem, along with DCPS if they didn’t actually plan for space for expanded enrollment and athletics. Use the Ellington DCPS field (Ellington doesn’t use it and it hasn’t been turned over to DPR). And then demand accountability of your public schools and how they are run. Don’t blame others for DCPS mismanagement. Blame DCPS.

Again — if Hardy finds a solution, there are other elementary schools and after school programs lined up waiting. DPR has a formula for allocating public space, and Maret doesn’t rank in that formula — except for the back room deal. DCPS *should* have planned to use Jelleff field after the first easement expired. How were they to know Maret planned to circumvent the public process?

Probably because DPR paid some shell 8a contractor $5 million to write bespoke field scheduling software and it still doesn’t work!

The software, while crude, works, in that it schedules the fields the way DPR wants them scheduled. The problem isn't with the software, it's with the decisions that DPR makes.

+1. Maret wants to blame everyone-Hardy for having students who dare seek to play on the field that’s across the street from them, other public school students for daring to exist and desire to use public resources and DC government for having made a bad deal with them. But I have yet to hear an answer of why Maret can’t find another non-public option when every other private school in the city has been able to do so. Is their planning department incompetent or nonexistent?