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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maret: third-tier private that can’t even find room for a field on their sprawling campus.

It’s no wonder the truly influential and connected choose the other dc private schools.

This. Between the sex abuse scandals and the poaching of a public field, the only families interested in Maret are those whose kids can’t get into Sidwell, GDS or the Cathedral schools (all of whom have fields of their own.)

I think you have it backwards. People apply to GDS because Maret is more of a long shot.

you wish we had it backwards. Maret is a tiny safety school for kids who can’t get into the Big 3.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So Maret parents think it's okay for DC taxpayers to pay millions in fixing up the Ellington field and creating a field at Hardy instead of paying a smaller amount to maintain jelleff? Just so they can keep their access to Jellef? This is such a horrible suggestion.

Hardy parents think that Maret parents should pony up for capital improvements and maintenance at Jelleff so that Hardy kids can use it. Isn’t the better question to ask Mayor “Vision Zero” why she is wasting taxpayer money on her crony consultants (most of whom live in PG County, not even in DC), and having to use private money as gap filler to maintain our recreation facilities?

No. Ten years ago Maret entered into a deal to pay for the construction of the field in exchange for ten years of use. Now the ten years are up, and Maret is saying they didn't really mean to sign a ten year deal, they really meant a 19 year deal, so they should get another nine years for their original investment.

+1. The city does not need Maret’s paltry 95k/ year for exclusive afterschool access. The city paid 25 mn for Jelleff and committed 15 mn to renovate its rec center. If you don’t believe me, just ask Maret parent and soon to be felon and ex-councilmember Jack Evans who has recently described the city as flush with cash.

This. Maret can take it’s tiny bit of cash and put it towards buying a proper field of its own so it can stop mooching off the DC taxpayer.

[Anonymous]

Selfish WTU staff won’t surrender any of their parking free stuff so that Hardy students have a proper field to practice and play on. They can’t take public transportation or pay for parking like most of us do. But you knew that. In DC, ask not what DC government can do for you. Ask what we all have to do for DC government employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret: third-tier private that can’t even find room for a field on their sprawling campus.

It’s no wonder the truly influential and connected choose the other dc private schools.

This. Between the sex abuse scandals and the poaching of a public field, the only families interested in Maret are those whose kids can’t get into Sidwell, GDS or the Cathedral schools (all of whom have fields of their own.)

I think you have it backwards. People apply to GDS because Maret is more of a long shot.

you wish we had it backwards. Maret is a tiny safety school for kids who can’t get into the Big 3.

Maret and GDS are good schools, but both are definitely in the second tier of DC independent schools.

[Anonymous]

MHGA
Make Hardy good again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret: third-tier private that can’t even find room for a field on their sprawling campus.

It’s no wonder the truly influential and connected choose the other dc private schools.

This. Between the sex abuse scandals and the poaching of a public field, the only families interested in Maret are those whose kids can’t get into Sidwell, GDS or the Cathedral schools (all of whom have fields of their own.)

I think you have it backwards. People apply to GDS because Maret is more of a long shot.

you wish we had it backwards. Maret is a tiny safety school for kids who can’t get into the Big 3.

I don’t think that Hardy boosters have any business suggesting that Maret is a lesser-tier school. Talk about pot calling kettle....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret: third-tier private that can’t even find room for a field on their sprawling campus.

It’s no wonder the truly influential and connected choose the other dc private schools.

This. Between the sex abuse scandals and the poaching of a public field, the only families interested in Maret are those whose kids can’t get into Sidwell, GDS or the Cathedral schools (all of whom have fields of their own.)

I think you have it backwards. People apply to GDS because Maret is more of a long shot.

you wish we had it backwards. Maret is a tiny safety school for kids who can’t get into the Big 3.

I don’t think that Hardy boosters have any business suggesting that Maret is a lesser-tier school. Talk about pot calling kettle....

[Psst — I suspect the Maret-disser above doesn’t care intensely about rankings, but they presume it is a sensitive spot for you (and apparently they are correct).]

[Anonymous]

Come on, is there anyone who given a free choice would send their kid to Hardy over Alice Deal? Hardy doesn’t even have an athletic field.

[Anonymous]

Maret is 100 percent a safety school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Market kids need to play too, bitterness is unbecoming

It's not the city's job to provide facilities for families that have opted out of the public school system, or for families that don't live in the city.

Ha! There seem to be a number of DC bureaucrats you think that it’s the city’s job to provide a free public education and aftercare to children who in fact live in Prince George’s County! So many DC agencies seem to look the other way at the fraud and theft of public services that are going on rather rampantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Market kids need to play too, bitterness is unbecoming

It's not the city's job to provide facilities for families that have opted out of the public school system, or for families that don't live in the city.

Ha! There seem to be a number of DC bureaucrats you think that it’s the city’s job to provide a free public education and aftercare to children who in fact live in Prince George’s County! So many DC agencies seem to look the other way at the fraud and theft of public services that are going on rather rampantly.

So two wrongs make a right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maret is 100 percent a safety school.

At least Maret doesn’t feel they need to have uniforms to maintain school discipline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret is 100 percent a safety school.

At least Maret doesn’t feel they need to have uniforms to maintain school discipline.

Unlike NCS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret is 100 percent a safety school.

At least Maret doesn’t feel they need to have uniforms to maintain school discipline.

Unlike NCS!

You are naive if you don’t realize that urban public school uniforms came about in the Eighties and Nineties in a very different context and for quite different reasons than why some private schools had them. It’s sad if the same conditions that characterized those decades in the DC schools still prevail at Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Selfish WTU staff won’t surrender any of their parking free stuff so that Hardy students have a proper field to practice and play on. They can’t take public transportation or pay for parking like most of us do. But you knew that. In DC, ask not what DC government can do for you. Ask what we all have to do for DC government employees.

Maret should dig up their parking lot, put in underground parking and turf it. Or buy a nice parcel to call their own. Can’t they afford it?