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

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t Hardy step up to the plate and reconfigure the school property to provide for a playing field on site?! They may not have if by September, but if they start working it (including downtown) then they could have a nice field by 2021-22.

Once again, public schools aren't independent entities like private schools. "Hardy" can't step up and do anything, they are reliant on DCPS and the entire DC government. The same DC government that just decided it would rather give away a $20 million+ public asset than let Hardy use it.

+1. The more relevant question is why Maret can’t step up to the plate and get its own field with the 50k/year they charge in tuition, like other self-respecting private schools.

Because they don't need to. They already have a field to use.

A public field gifted to them at a below market rate to them by a soon to be indicted politician whose soon attended Maret is not a option most legitimate private schools would choose.

Not gifted. Maret is paying. And other private schools, such as GDS, would eagerly consider a similar transaction if they had the need.

Maret is paying $95k/year. For a facility that DC taxpayers paid $15 million to buy 15 years ago, and are paying $7 million to renovate, that’s a gift.

Maret is so eager to say that everyone would behave as unethically as they did if given the chance. What a message for a school to be imparting to youth!

I believe that Grifter, uh excuse me, Gifted Day School would love to have an arrangement like this. Don’t forget GDS’ insider real estate deal with its “Roster of Aces” in which the school acted as the front for certain board members and other insiders in the development business.

What you believe is irrelevant. Maret is the only area private taking a public park from DC taxpayers.

It goes both ways. I think it’s Sidwell friends used to make their facilities available to the underprivileged students at Hearst.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t Hardy step up to the plate and reconfigure the school property to provide for a playing field on site?! They may not have if by September, but if they start working it (including downtown) then they could have a nice field by 2021-22.

Once again, public schools aren't independent entities like private schools. "Hardy" can't step up and do anything, they are reliant on DCPS and the entire DC government. The same DC government that just decided it would rather give away a $20 million+ public asset than let Hardy use it.

+1. The more relevant question is why Maret can’t step up to the plate and get its own field with the 50k/year they charge in tuition, like other self-respecting private schools.

Because they don't need to. They already have a field to use.

A public field gifted to them at a below market rate to them by a soon to be indicted politician whose soon attended Maret is not a option most legitimate private schools would choose.

Not gifted. Maret is paying. And other private schools, such as GDS, would eagerly consider a similar transaction if they had the need.

Maret is paying $95k/year. For a facility that DC taxpayers paid $15 million to buy 15 years ago, and are paying $7 million to renovate, that’s a gift.

Maret is so eager to say that everyone would behave as unethically as they did if given the chance. What a message for a school to be imparting to youth!

I believe that Grifter, uh excuse me, Gifted Day School would love to have an arrangement like this. Don’t forget GDS’ insider real estate deal with its “Roster of Aces” in which the school acted as the front for certain board members and other insiders in the development business.

What you believe is irrelevant. Maret is the only area private taking a public park from DC taxpayers.

It goes both ways. I think it’s Sidwell friends used to make their facilities available to the underprivileged students at Hearst.

This. A number of DC public schools have benefitted from directvassistance by DC independent schools. This was especially the case when DCPS was so hopeless that the public schools had no toilet paper in the rest rooms, but some partnerships and charitable assistance continue today.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t Hardy step up to the plate and reconfigure the school property to provide for a playing field on site?! They may not have if by September, but if they start working it (including downtown) then they could have a nice field by 2021-22.

Once again, public schools aren't independent entities like private schools. "Hardy" can't step up and do anything, they are reliant on DCPS and the entire DC government. The same DC government that just decided it would rather give away a $20 million+ public asset than let Hardy use it.

+1. The more relevant question is why Maret can’t step up to the plate and get its own field with the 50k/year they charge in tuition, like other self-respecting private schools.

Because they don't need to. They already have a field to use.

A public field gifted to them at a below market rate to them by a soon to be indicted politician whose soon attended Maret is not a option most legitimate private schools would choose.

Not gifted. Maret is paying. And other private schools, such as GDS, would eagerly consider a similar transaction if they had the need.

Maret is paying $95k/year. For a facility that DC taxpayers paid $15 million to buy 15 years ago, and are paying $7 million to renovate, that’s a gift.

Maret is so eager to say that everyone would behave as unethically as they did if given the chance. What a message for a school to be imparting to youth!

I believe that Grifter, uh excuse me, Gifted Day School would love to have an arrangement like this. Don’t forget GDS’ insider real estate deal with its “Roster of Aces” in which the school acted as the front for certain board members and other insiders in the development business.

What you believe is irrelevant. Maret is the only area private taking a public park from DC taxpayers.

It goes both ways. I think it’s Sidwell friends used to make their facilities available to the underprivileged students at Hearst.

As part of getting a massive tax break and construction/property deal - not out of the goodness of their hearts or charity or neighborliness!

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t Hardy step up to the plate and reconfigure the school property to provide for a playing field on site?! They may not have if by September, but if they start working it (including downtown) then they could have a nice field by 2021-22.

Once again, public schools aren't independent entities like private schools. "Hardy" can't step up and do anything, they are reliant on DCPS and the entire DC government. The same DC government that just decided it would rather give away a $20 million+ public asset than let Hardy use it.

+1. The more relevant question is why Maret can’t step up to the plate and get its own field with the 50k/year they charge in tuition, like other self-respecting private schools.

Because they don't need to. They already have a field to use.

A public field gifted to them at a below market rate to them by a soon to be indicted politician whose soon attended Maret is not a option most legitimate private schools would choose.

Not gifted. Maret is paying. And other private schools, such as GDS, would eagerly consider a similar transaction if they had the need.

Maret is paying $95k/year. For a facility that DC taxpayers paid $15 million to buy 15 years ago, and are paying $7 million to renovate, that’s a gift.

Maret is so eager to say that everyone would behave as unethically as they did if given the chance. What a message for a school to be imparting to youth!

I believe that Grifter, uh excuse me, Gifted Day School would love to have an arrangement like this. Don’t forget GDS’ insider real estate deal with its “Roster of Aces” in which the school acted as the front for certain board members and other insiders in the development business.

What you believe is irrelevant. Maret is the only area private taking a public park from DC taxpayers.

It goes both ways. I think it’s Sidwell friends used to make their facilities available to the underprivileged students at Hearst.

This. A number of DC public schools have benefitted from directvassistance by DC independent schools. This was especially the case when DCPS was so hopeless that the public schools had no toilet paper in the rest rooms, but some partnerships and charitable assistance continue today.

Yes and Sidwell kids tutor at Hearst. Not every private behaves like Maret.

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What you believe is irrelevant. Maret is the only area private taking a public park from DC taxpayers.

I wouldn't be so sure. There are other deals like this out there, this is just the one we know about.

[Anonymous]

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What you believe is irrelevant. Maret is the only area private taking a public park from DC taxpayers.

I wouldn't be so sure. There are other deals like this out there, this is just the one we know about.

Well, when you identify another private school taking a highly desirable public facility for peanuts, please start your own thread about that. In the meantime, we’ll keep note that Maret is the bad actor of the private school field.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t Hardy step up to the plate and reconfigure the school property to provide for a playing field on site?! They may not have if by September, but if they start working it (including downtown) then they could have a nice field by 2021-22.

Once again, public schools aren't independent entities like private schools. "Hardy" can't step up and do anything, they are reliant on DCPS and the entire DC government. The same DC government that just decided it would rather give away a $20 million+ public asset than let Hardy use it.

+1. The more relevant question is why Maret can’t step up to the plate and get its own field with the 50k/year they charge in tuition, like other self-respecting private schools.

Because they don't need to. They already have a field to use.

A public field gifted to them at a below market rate to them by a soon to be indicted politician whose soon attended Maret is not a option most legitimate private schools would choose.

Not gifted. Maret is paying. And other private schools, such as GDS, would eagerly consider a similar transaction if they had the need.

Maret is paying $95k/year. For a facility that DC taxpayers paid $15 million to buy 15 years ago, and are paying $7 million to renovate, that’s a gift.

Maret is so eager to say that everyone would behave as unethically as they did if given the chance. What a message for a school to be imparting to youth!

I believe that Grifter, uh excuse me, Gifted Day School would love to have an arrangement like this. Don’t forget GDS’ insider real estate deal with its “Roster of Aces” in which the school acted as the front for certain board members and other insiders in the development business.

What you believe is irrelevant. Maret is the only area private taking a public park from DC taxpayers.

It goes both ways. I think it’s Sidwell friends used to make their facilities available to the underprivileged students at Hearst.

As part of getting a massive tax break and construction/property deal - not out of the goodness of their hearts or charity or neighborliness!

Sorry, but Sidwell’s tax exempt status isn’t dependent on impressing you or any DC kleptocrat downtown. And what construction/property “deal” are you referring to?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
What you believe is irrelevant. Maret is the only area private taking a public park from DC taxpayers.

I wouldn't be so sure. There are other deals like this out there, this is just the one we know about.

Well, when you identify another private school taking a highly desirable public facility for peanuts, please start your own thread about that. In the meantime, we’ll keep note that Maret is the bad actor of the private school field.

+1

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This story isn’t going away. Here’s another Washington Post article about Maret’s exclusive deal to use Jelleff field, featuring a mention of Maret parents whining about their vitriol they face on DCUM and their fear of being assaulted by angry community members as their kids play on the field and the likes of Jim Abdo, Maret parent and super-rich property developer insisting that Maret isn’t elitist, even as he bribes his way through the halls of DC Government. Notably, Maret parent and soon to be indicted felon Jack Evans who cooked up this whole deal was not mentioned at all.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-a-fight-over-a-city-athletic-field-turned-into-a-woke-off-of-washingtons-well-off/2019/12/06/fc2d14dc-07c9-11ea-818c-fcc65139e8c2_story.html%3foutputType=amp

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The article was disappointing. No mention of the role of DC government, it's almost as if the field just fell there and it was left to Hardy parents and Maret parents to figure out what to do with it.

Also total false equivalence between the wealth of the two schools. They want us to believe that 25% scholarship is the same as 40% economically disadvantaged? Right.

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That article has me boiling. He bent over backwards to give maret every excuse. Did t mention Evans at all. Called hardy the second best middle in DC as if that makes it all ok. Exaggerated Hardy’s wealth while minimizing Maret’s tuition. Put “windowless basement” in quotes as if it’s not true.

Biased and awful.

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Anonymous wrote:The article was disappointing. No mention of the role of DC government, it's almost as if the field just fell there and it was left to Hardy parents and Maret parents to figure out what to do with it.

Also total false equivalence between the wealth of the two schools. They want us to believe that 25% scholarship is the same as 40% economically disadvantaged? Right.

Ian Cameron (husband of Susan Rice and Maret board President) lists his career as journalist. Ben Bradlee’s grandkids went to Maret, and the son of journalist Martha Raddatz worked in their comms department for years (Martha was married to Ben Bradlee Jr.) so yeah, I think the Washington Post articles have been purposefully missing the point. Because no one who has a brain would equate the populations of the 9 public schools plus boys and girls club who asked for access to the public recreation center of Jelleff to that of Maret’s 40k/year student body.

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Anonymous wrote:That article has me boiling. He bent over backwards to give maret every excuse. Did t mention Evans at all. Called hardy the second best middle in DC as if that makes it all ok. Exaggerated Hardy’s wealth while minimizing Maret’s tuition. Put “windowless basement” in quotes as if it’s not true.

Biased and awful.

I had never heard of the author Graham Vyse and did a quick google. He’s a young freelancer (not a staff writer) with an AU degree and his bio is on the Cato Institute page. So basically he’s Maret’s constituency-not someone who would care about the fair use of public resources.

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Anonymous wrote:The article was disappointing. No mention of the role of DC government, it's almost as if the field just fell there and it was left to Hardy parents and Maret parents to figure out what to do with it.

Also total false equivalence between the wealth of the two schools. They want us to believe that 25% scholarship is the same as 40% economically disadvantaged? Right.

Ian Cameron (husband of Susan Rice and Maret board President) lists his career as journalist. Ben Bradlee’s grandkids went to Maret, and the son of journalist Martha Raddatz worked in their comms department for years (Martha was married to Ben Bradlee Jr.) so yeah, I think the Washington Post articles have been purposefully missing the point. Because no one who has a brain would equate the populations of the 9 public schools plus boys and girls club who asked for access to the public recreation center of Jelleff to that of Maret’s 40k/year student body.

Not one mention of bowser or DPR or Evans. What a crap article.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t Hardy step up to the plate and reconfigure the school property to provide for a playing field on site?! They may not have if by September, but if they start working it (including downtown) then they could have a nice field by 2021-22.

Once again, public schools aren't independent entities like private schools. "Hardy" can't step up and do anything, they are reliant on DCPS and the entire DC government. The same DC government that just decided it would rather give away a $20 million+ public asset than let Hardy use it.

+1. The more relevant question is why Maret can’t step up to the plate and get its own field with the 50k/year they charge in tuition, like other self-respecting private schools.

Because they don't need to. They already have a field to use.

A public field gifted to them at a below market rate to them by a soon to be indicted politician whose soon attended Maret is not a option most legitimate private schools would choose.

Not gifted. Maret is paying. And other private schools, such as GDS, would eagerly consider a similar transaction if they had the need.

It’s a great deal for DPR. Maret uses the park facilities for 10 weeks in the fall and spring during the week and the facilities are renovated and maintained at no cost to DPR. No one was using the park during that time. Hardy people are just rich people from Georgetown and Palisades. It’s so funny hearing them claim poverty. Also make exaggerated claims of the facility being “given” away.