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

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Anonymous wrote:If people are concerned about the theft of a public asset, they should all sign then a petition to make Duke Ellington’s site public again. Jelleff is not the biggest scam and swindle in Burleith. Ellington is the beneficiary of huge sums of public largesse - nearly 200 million dollars to renovate the building and close to 90 percent of its annual operating budget. Yet whenever watchdogs demand accountability from Ellington, the school hides behind an opaque and self-perpetuating governance scheme to claim that it is not really a public school. Fine, let’s revert and recapture a public asset - the former Western High School campus — for the public. Estimates are that approximately half of Ellington’s enrollment doesn’t even live in DC, despite being subsidized on the DC taxpayers’ nickel. Northwest DC could use another public high school. Let’s rerun this public asset that has been privately misappropriated to the public for public use. Westernize Ellington again!!

As good as an idea that may be, only the very optimistic would have any hope that the building would be repurposed to a general public HS immediately after $200M in use-specific renovations were completed.

Does supporting this idea preclude opposing handing Jelleff to Maret for another ten years for peanuts? No. People can hold two nonconflicting ideas in their heads at the same time. Try it.

Maret parents bring up the Ellington possibility to attempt to deflect from the fact that they’re hogging a desirable public asset.

The Maret team has blamed and tried to distract with thing after thing after thing. We’re bad but Ellington is worse? Anything to look away from the children in the basement at jelleff and the rest of the local community they are screwing over.... try looking in the mirror. It’s you!

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Anonymous wrote:The Burleith Citizens Association annual meeting is tonight at Washington International School (lower campus, 36th Street between S and Reservoir).

Jack Evans will be there to give his Ward 2 report from 7:35-7:45pm. Come prepared to ask questions about Jelleff and his recent corruption findings.

Tommy Jones from DPR will be giving an update on the transfer of Ellington Field from 8:05-8:15pm.

Anyone can attend.

I hope someone goes on behalf of the 100 kids without any outdoor space to play.

I’d love to see someone from the Washington Teachers Union announce their they will voluntarily give up their free Hardy on-site parking lot. On behalf of the kids who have no place to play. Of course they would.

The kids with no outdoor play space are at Jelleff after-school, not Hardy. And as been explained here multiple times, the parking is a red herring.

Really? Then so is the notion that the poor Hardy students are being denied a place to play. The selfishness of the Hardy staff is appalling.

How about the Maret staff give up their parking and build a baseball field on their campus. Or Maret could use their resources to rent, buy or build another field - for their private school.

Seriously, you're attacking public school teachers and low-income student attending Jellef afterschool programs. (and the parking lot at Hardy isn't even the size of a soccer field) Your targets are misguided. Back off.

People just want a way for the community to access a public field in their neighborhoods without it being bought out from underneath them in a backroom deal.

We get Maret wants a field too - they could then go through the normal permitting and allocation processes with all of the other groups vying for use of fields. This was because they were going around the system and using extra $ and back-room methods to buy their way to an exclusive deal.

Hardy has a history of selfish, troublesome staff. It historically has had one of the most militant WTU groups. Notoriously it was a Hardy English teacher and WTU shop steward who led the resistance to Chancellor Rhee’s plan to diversify Hardy by adding more Upper Northwest students to the school. That was really pro-student of her. But now the Hardy community is quick to hurl around references to equity, inclusion, class and even race over a couple of hours of sports practice?! GMAFB.

When you get to the point in the debate where the only talking point you've got left is taking random pot shots at the other side it's time to concede that you've lost.

Haven’t the Hardy social justice warriors tried to demonize Maret families as scheming, privileged racists? Shame.

No, they haven't .The snowflake Maret parents can't tell the difference between criticizing the actions of their school administration and attacking their children.

Don't worry, they're just lashing out. It must be hard to come to terms with the realization that their fancy $50k a year school has fallen behind schools like WIS and GDS that they used to look down upon. Think of how bad it would be if a public schoool had better facilities!

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Anonymous wrote:The Burleith Citizens Association annual meeting is tonight at Washington International School (lower campus, 36th Street between S and Reservoir).

Jack Evans will be there to give his Ward 2 report from 7:35-7:45pm. Come prepared to ask questions about Jelleff and his recent corruption findings.

Tommy Jones from DPR will be giving an update on the transfer of Ellington Field from 8:05-8:15pm.

Anyone can attend.

I hope someone goes on behalf of the 100 kids without any outdoor space to play.

I’d love to see someone from the Washington Teachers Union announce their they will voluntarily give up their free Hardy on-site parking lot. On behalf of the kids who have no place to play. Of course they would.

The kids with no outdoor play space are at Jelleff after-school, not Hardy. And as been explained here multiple times, the parking is a red herring.

Really? Then so is the notion that the poor Hardy students are being denied a place to play. The selfishness of the Hardy staff is appalling.

How about the Maret staff give up their parking and build a baseball field on their campus. Or Maret could use their resources to rent, buy or build another field - for their private school.

Seriously, you're attacking public school teachers and low-income student attending Jellef afterschool programs. (and the parking lot at Hardy isn't even the size of a soccer field) Your targets are misguided. Back off.

People just want a way for the community to access a public field in their neighborhoods without it being bought out from underneath them in a backroom deal.

We get Maret wants a field too - they could then go through the normal permitting and allocation processes with all of the other groups vying for use of fields. This was because they were going around the system and using extra $ and back-room methods to buy their way to an exclusive deal.

Hardy has a history of selfish, troublesome staff. It historically has had one of the most militant WTU groups. Notoriously it was a Hardy English teacher and WTU shop steward who led the resistance to Chancellor Rhee’s plan to diversify Hardy by adding more Upper Northwest students to the school. That was really pro-student of her. But now the Hardy community is quick to hurl around references to equity, inclusion, class and even race over a couple of hours of sports practice?! GMAFB.

When you get to the point in the debate where the only talking point you've got left is taking random pot shots at the other side it's time to concede that you've lost.

Haven’t the Hardy social justice warriors tried to demonize Maret families as scheming, privileged racists? Shame.

No, they haven't .The snowflake Maret parents can't tell the difference between criticizing the actions of their school administration and attacking their children.

Don't worry, they're just lashing out. It must be hard to come to terms with the realization that their fancy $50k a year school has fallen behind schools like WIS and GDS that they used to look down upon. Think of how bad it would be if a public schoool had better facilities!

+1. It’s been a very bad year to be a Maret parent. Their choice is to pay more in tuition so they can get a proper field of their own like any self respecting private school would do or be the object of public scorn. Apparently they’ve chosen public scorn over paying a fair price for a field.

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^^ The parents don’t even have to pay more tuition to get them adequate facilities. The have $33 million dollars in endowment. The cheapskates would just rather use public assets than their own.

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Anonymous wrote:The Burleith Citizens Association annual meeting is tonight at Washington International School (lower campus, 36th Street between S and Reservoir).

Jack Evans will be there to give his Ward 2 report from 7:35-7:45pm. Come prepared to ask questions about Jelleff and his recent corruption findings.

Tommy Jones from DPR will be giving an update on the transfer of Ellington Field from 8:05-8:15pm.

Anyone can attend.

I hope someone goes on behalf of the 100 kids without any outdoor space to play.

I’d love to see someone from the Washington Teachers Union announce their they will voluntarily give up their free Hardy on-site parking lot. On behalf of the kids who have no place to play. Of course they would.

The kids with no outdoor play space are at Jelleff after-school, not Hardy. And as been explained here multiple times, the parking is a red herring.

Really? Then so is the notion that the poor Hardy students are being denied a place to play. The selfishness of the Hardy staff is appalling.

How about the Maret staff give up their parking and build a baseball field on their campus. Or Maret could use their resources to rent, buy or build another field - for their private school.

Seriously, you're attacking public school teachers and low-income student attending Jellef afterschool programs. (and the parking lot at Hardy isn't even the size of a soccer field) Your targets are misguided. Back off.

People just want a way for the community to access a public field in their neighborhoods without it being bought out from underneath them in a backroom deal.

We get Maret wants a field too - they could then go through the normal permitting and allocation processes with all of the other groups vying for use of fields. This was because they were going around the system and using extra $ and back-room methods to buy their way to an exclusive deal.

Hardy has a history of selfish, troublesome staff. It historically has had one of the most militant WTU groups. Notoriously it was a Hardy English teacher and WTU shop steward who led the resistance to Chancellor Rhee’s plan to diversify Hardy by adding more Upper Northwest students to the school. That was really pro-student of her. But now the Hardy community is quick to hurl around references to equity, inclusion, class and even race over a couple of hours of sports practice?! GMAFB.

When you get to the point in the debate where the only talking point you've got left is taking random pot shots at the other side it's time to concede that you've lost.

Haven’t the Hardy social justice warriors tried to demonize Maret families as scheming, privileged racists? Shame.

No, they haven't .The snowflake Maret parents can't tell the difference between criticizing the actions of their school administration and attacking their children.

Don't worry, they're just lashing out. It must be hard to come to terms with the realization that their fancy $50k a year school has fallen behind schools like WIS and GDS that they used to look down upon. Think of how bad it would be if a public schoool had better facilities!

Maret has been stagnant for a while. GDS left Maret on the roadside a decade ago, and now attracts more applicants than Sidwell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:If people are concerned about the theft of a public asset, they should all sign then a petition to make Duke Ellington’s site public again. Jelleff is not the biggest scam and swindle in Burleith. Ellington is the beneficiary of huge sums of public largesse - nearly 200 million dollars to renovate the building and close to 90 percent of its annual operating budget. Yet whenever watchdogs demand accountability from Ellington, the school hides behind an opaque and self-perpetuating governance scheme to claim that it is not really a public school. Fine, let’s revert and recapture a public asset - the former Western High School campus — for the public. Estimates are that approximately half of Ellington’s enrollment doesn’t even live in DC, despite being subsidized on the DC taxpayers’ nickel. Northwest DC could use another public high school. Let’s rerun this public asset that has been privately misappropriated to the public for public use. Westernize Ellington again!!

As good as an idea that may be, only the very optimistic would have any hope that the building would be repurposed to a general public HS immediately after $200M in use-specific renovations were completed.

Does supporting this idea preclude opposing handing Jelleff to Maret for another ten years for peanuts? No. People can hold two nonconflicting ideas in their heads at the same time. Try it.

Maret parents bring up the Ellington possibility to attempt to deflect from the fact that they’re hogging a desirable public asset.

The Maret team has blamed and tried to distract with thing after thing after thing. We’re bad but Ellington is worse? Anything to look away from the children in the basement at jelleff and the rest of the local community they are screwing over.... try looking in the mirror. It’s you!

Noxious as Maret acts, no school administrator is likely to be indicted. With Ellington, that’s possible.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ The parents don’t even have to pay more tuition to get them adequate facilities. The have $33 million dollars in endowment. The cheapskates would just rather use public assets than their own.

And therein lies the problem. Incompetent and immoral Maret administrators meet incompetent and immoral DC politicians (the circle intersects with Jack Evans who is both a Maret parent and a corrupt politician.)

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Why are DCPS students “shafted” again? It’s basically the fault of lazy, incompetent school system administrators who are more interested in scoring more “free stuff” and perks, rather than focusing on building one of the best public school systems.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are DCPS students “shafted” again? It’s basically the fault of lazy, incompetent school system administrators who are more interested in scoring more “free stuff” and perks, rather than focusing on building one of the best public school systems.

Huh? Are you a bot? The only one scoring free stuff is Maret who has a sweetheart deal paying less than 100k/year for exclusive access to one of DC’s few public playing fields in that area while poor DC resident kids get stuck using a basement to spend their afterschool hours.

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Why can’t Maret put a practice field on the front lawn of Maret’s big white plantation house? There seems to be lots of space.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are DCPS students “shafted” again? It’s basically the fault of lazy, incompetent school system administrators who are more interested in scoring more “free stuff” and perks, rather than focusing on building one of the best public school systems.

Huh? Are you a bot? The only one scoring free stuff is Maret who has a sweetheart deal paying less than 100k/year for exclusive access to one of DC’s few public playing fields in that area while poor DC resident kids get stuck using a basement to spend their afterschool hours.

Ha! Half of the “poor DC resident kids” are probably PG residents whose parents sneak them into DCPS and aftercare programs for their convenience. In many cases the cheating parents even “work” for the DC government. Talk about “free stuff” - except, of course, to the DC taxpayers who foot the bill for such fraud.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are DCPS students “shafted” again? It’s basically the fault of lazy, incompetent school system administrators who are more interested in scoring more “free stuff” and perks, rather than focusing on building one of the best public school systems.

Huh? Are you a bot? The only one scoring free stuff is Maret who has a sweetheart deal paying less than 100k/year for exclusive access to one of DC’s few public playing fields in that area while poor DC resident kids get stuck using a basement to spend their afterschool hours.

Ha! Half of the “poor DC resident kids” are probably PG residents whose parents sneak them into DCPS and aftercare programs for their convenience. In many cases the cheating parents even “work” for the DC government. Talk about “free stuff” - except, of course, to the DC taxpayers who foot the bill for such fraud.

dp: Surely you’re right — 50% of DC students are from PG County. Therefore, we should definitely give away public assets to Maret, since only 40% of their students are from outside the District.

[Anonymous]

This whole situation is terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are DCPS students “shafted” again? It’s basically the fault of lazy, incompetent school system administrators who are more interested in scoring more “free stuff” and perks, rather than focusing on building one of the best public school systems.

Huh? Are you a bot? The only one scoring free stuff is Maret who has a sweetheart deal paying less than 100k/year for exclusive access to one of DC’s few public playing fields in that area while poor DC resident kids get stuck using a basement to spend their afterschool hours.

Ha! Half of the “poor DC resident kids” are probably PG residents whose parents sneak them into DCPS and aftercare programs for their convenience. In many cases the cheating parents even “work” for the DC government. Talk about “free stuff” - except, of course, to the DC taxpayers who foot the bill for such fraud.

Any evidence that the kids at the Boys and Girls club at Jelleff are non-residents? Or are you just a Maret parent spewing lies because you can’t defend your own behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are DCPS students “shafted” again? It’s basically the fault of lazy, incompetent school system administrators who are more interested in scoring more “free stuff” and perks, rather than focusing on building one of the best public school systems.

Huh? Are you a bot? The only one scoring free stuff is Maret who has a sweetheart deal paying less than 100k/year for exclusive access to one of DC’s few public playing fields in that area while poor DC resident kids get stuck using a basement to spend their afterschool hours.

Ha! Half of the “poor DC resident kids” are probably PG residents whose parents sneak them into DCPS and aftercare programs for their convenience. In many cases the cheating parents even “work” for the DC government. Talk about “free stuff” - except, of course, to the DC taxpayers who foot the bill for such fraud.

dp: Surely you’re right — 50% of DC students are from PG County. Therefore, we should definitely give away public assets to Maret, since only 40% of their students are from outside the District.

Yup nothing makes more sense than giving away scarce public assets for 100k/year to a private school with a majority of its students from outside DC that charges 50k/year per student.