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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

What is pathetic is Maret claiming to be good citizens while monopolizing the Jelleff field at the expense of the kids in the after school program. Pathetic and hypocritical. At least have the intestinal fortitude to stand behind your position.

Is the level of integrity taught at Maret? Poor little rich kids with no moral compass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

What is pathetic is Maret claiming to be good citizens while monopolizing the Jelleff field at the expense of the kids in the after school program. Pathetic and hypocritical. At least have the intestinal fortitude to stand behind your position.

Is the level of integrity taught at Maret? Poor little rich kids with no moral compass.

So why would sane parents enroll their kids in an after school program when the kids are confined to a basement ? Or are you simply peddling BS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

The school doesn't have the land that Deal has. But one-third of the Deal students are in trailers and the class sizes and overcrowding is out of control. What's your point. Children in other middle schools in the city have lots less. Go look at the fields and facilities all around the city. That's the situation - it's a city trying to manage a whole city's worth of schools and facilities. It's not a Hardy vs. Deal like you have Maret vs. GDS vs. Sidwell etc by comparison shopping private school parents paying tuition. This is the exact point. These are PUBLIC schools. No one can go and demand nicer fields to the head of school and/or give $1mil and problem solved. Or apparently in this case, go an do under the table, behind closed doors with city officials -and problem solved!!

A great way for DC to manage overcrowding at Deal and Wilson is to end automatic feeder right for Out of Bounds students. That would solve the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

What is pathetic is Maret claiming to be good citizens while monopolizing the Jelleff field at the expense of the kids in the after school program. Pathetic and hypocritical. At least have the intestinal fortitude to stand behind your position.

Is the level of integrity taught at Maret? Poor little rich kids with no moral compass.

This is the fundamental problem with the District government. It’s never about aspiring for truly good quality - it’s about settling just for “good enough for DC.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

What is pathetic is Maret claiming to be good citizens while monopolizing the Jelleff field at the expense of the kids in the after school program. Pathetic and hypocritical. At least have the intestinal fortitude to stand behind your position.

Is the level of integrity taught at Maret? Poor little rich kids with no moral compass.

So why would sane parents enroll their kids in an after school program when the kids are confined to a basement ? Or are you simply peddling BS?

You would need to get educated on real issues in the city. Not everyone has the choices the affluent Maret families have.

Why would you choose to send your kids to a school where integrity is so hard to find? www.maret.org MaretFrogs @maretschool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

The school doesn't have the land that Deal has. But one-third of the Deal students are in trailers and the class sizes and overcrowding is out of control. What's your point. Children in other middle schools in the city have lots less. Go look at the fields and facilities all around the city. That's the situation - it's a city trying to manage a whole city's worth of schools and facilities. It's not a Hardy vs. Deal like you have Maret vs. GDS vs. Sidwell etc by comparison shopping private school parents paying tuition. This is the exact point. These are PUBLIC schools. No one can go and demand nicer fields to the head of school and/or give $1mil and problem solved. Or apparently in this case, go an do under the table, behind closed doors with city officials -and problem solved!!

This is the fundamental problem with the District government. It’s never about aspiring for truly good quality - it’s about settling just for “good enough for DC.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can DCPS pretend to operate a middle school that doesn’t even have an athletic field? (I know, it wasn’t so long ago that DCPS pretended to operate schools without textbooks). The Hardy admin, DCPS bureaucracy and Bowser need to man up, take some decisions, and build Hardy a proper field.

Or, they could use the one the city owns, across the street.

Another reason why Hardy will always lag. Not only do they not have nice stuff like Deal, they are too cowed by and subservient to the DCPS central office even to ask for it. Pathetic.

The school doesn't have the land that Deal has. But one-third of the Deal students are in trailers and the class sizes and overcrowding is out of control. What's your point. Children in other middle schools in the city have lots less. Go look at the fields and facilities all around the city. That's the situation - it's a city trying to manage a whole city's worth of schools and facilities. It's not a Hardy vs. Deal like you have Maret vs. GDS vs. Sidwell etc by comparison shopping private school parents paying tuition. This is the exact point. These are PUBLIC schools. No one can go and demand nicer fields to the head of school and/or give $1mil and problem solved. Or apparently in this case, go an do under the table, behind closed doors with city officials -and problem solved!!

This explains in a nutshell why despite the overcrowding, Northest parents clamor for Deal if they have the choice (until DCPS takes away the choice). After Deal, the alternatives get progressively crappier, despite the fact that DC is awash is tax revenues.

[Anonymous]

Northwest parents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northwest parents

Maret - Virginia and Maryland parents

www.maret.org
MaretFrogs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwest parents

Maret - Virginia and Maryland parents

www.maret.org
MaretFrogs

Maret parents in NW Washington are freeing up sought-after places in good west of the Park schools so that your kid isn’t stuck going to Malcolm X Jr High School.

[Anonymous]

Dc should just buy them out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwest parents

Maret - Virginia and Maryland parents

www.maret.org
MaretFrogs

Maret parents in NW Washington are freeing up sought-after places in good west of the Park schools so that your kid isn’t stuck going to Malcolm X Jr High School.

Where?

You can’t actually be from Maret. No one is this ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Please don’t be so obtuse. The B&G club is one of the only halfway affordable after school options in the vicinity of Glover Park, Hardy, Stoddert, Hyde, and for some students from Key. There are not many options in the price range. It is half the price of the after care option at out Hardy feeder. Go check it out sometime. The kids seriously - no exaggeration- often are hanging out in the basement and they are not allowed to go use the field at the facility while Maret and others have it. It’s for real. The parents sending their kids to Hardy have the option of trying to find another house and moving to go to Deal if they want to go Deal. There is no application or lottery. It’s not a choice issue. No parent is sitting around deciding between Hardy or Deal or feeling them pitted off against each other. Public school pathways and financial realities for so much of the city seem beyond comprehension?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don’t be so obtuse. The B&G club is one of the only halfway affordable after school options in the vicinity of Glover Park, Hardy, Stoddert, Hyde, and for some students from Key. There are not many options in the price range. It is half the price of the after care option at out Hardy feeder. Go check it out sometime. The kids seriously - no exaggeration- often are hanging out in the basement and they are not allowed to go use the field at the facility while Maret and others have it. It’s for real. The parents sending their kids to Hardy have the option of trying to find another house and moving to go to Deal if they want to go Deal. There is no application or lottery. It’s not a choice issue. No parent is sitting around deciding between Hardy or Deal or feeling them pitted off against each other. Public school pathways and financial realities for so much of the city seem beyond comprehension?

So maybe Jelleff is half the price because the outdoor field time is limited. Parents get a special deal as a result. What you’re saying is that Jelleff B&C should both be half the price of any other offering and have field time (when Hardy isn’t using it, I assume). You’re living in a Bernie time warp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please don’t be so obtuse. The B&G club is one of the only halfway affordable after school options in the vicinity of Glover Park, Hardy, Stoddert, Hyde, and for some students from Key. There are not many options in the price range. It is half the price of the after care option at out Hardy feeder. Go check it out sometime. The kids seriously - no exaggeration- often are hanging out in the basement and they are not allowed to go use the field at the facility while Maret and others have it. It’s for real. The parents sending their kids to Hardy have the option of trying to find another house and moving to go to Deal if they want to go Deal. There is no application or lottery. It’s not a choice issue. No parent is sitting around deciding between Hardy or Deal or feeling them pitted off against each other. Public school pathways and financial realities for so much of the city seem beyond comprehension?

So maybe Jelleff is half the price because the outdoor field time is limited. Parents get a special deal as a result. What you’re saying is that Jelleff B&C should both be half the price of any other offering and have field time (when Hardy isn’t using it, I assume). You’re living in a Bernie time warp.

Yes! You finally (finally!) got it right! And here I thought you just weren’t capable of basic comprehension much less any empathy. Yes, the B&GCGW (what is B&C?) should get as much field time as any of the other interested stakeholders, all of whom - oops! All but Maret, I mean - want to share the space and they should pay a lower price. Certainly they have a greater moral claim than the affluent families of Maret who pay over $40k per year for up to 13 years for schooling. They can afford to find their own parcel, pay for it and build whatever they want.

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