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

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Anonymous wrote:Or we could just list all the other private schools that get to use Jelleff courtesy of Maret. Oh wait, maybe that's why Maret doesn't roll over - it's the whole private school network ensuring the timeslot remains reserved for the $pecial ones.

As far as I know it's just the British School. Are there others?

How come no one has complained about the British School's buses which seem to use Jelleff as their private parking lot? And the British School is a for-profit school, not a 501c3 like Maret.

People who might otherwise use that parking lot have a right to complain. The public school kids who could use the field aren't pressed for parking, they can walk to the field from school.

Perhaps instead of the British school, the WTU teachers from Hardy could park at Jelleff. It might be a lot to ask to get them to walk half a block but they might step up . Then their parking lot could be given up to an on-site playing field for the Hardy students. Win win except perhaps for the British school. BTW How much does the British school pay DC/Jelliff to use the parking lot for its vehicles?

“WTF” might be more accurate.

The “WTU” teachers? What the hell are you trying to say?

[Anonymous]

“WTF” teachers might be more accurate. Just don’t take away their free on-site parking and other stuff.

[Anonymous]

Weak attempts to distract. The teachers are not the problem, BIS is not the problem. Maret is the problem. I know it is terribly difficult to see the real world through the distorting walls of your bubble but do try to focus on the actual issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Come on. Stop drinking the DCLS Kool-Aid. Selfish, lazy staff are a chronic problem. To be sure there are some good, even a few outstanding, teachers. But a lot of them would never give up their free parking so they students have a place on school property to play.

This has ... what to do with Maret and now other private schools locking in a sweetheart deal on a public soccer field?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Come on. Stop drinking the DCLS Kool-Aid. Selfish, lazy staff are a chronic problem. To be sure there are some good, even a few outstanding, teachers. But a lot of them would never give up their free parking so they students have a place on school property to play.

This has ... what to do with Maret and now other private schools locking in a sweetheart deal on a public soccer field?

+1 As someone mentioned up thread, if Maret wanted to live the values it claims to espouse, it could dig up its parking lot and put it underground as Sidwell did and have room for a regulation size playing field. But they have decided it’s better that they mooch off DC taxpayers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Come on. Stop drinking the DCLS Kool-Aid. Selfish, lazy staff are a chronic problem. To be sure there are some good, even a few outstanding, teachers. But a lot of them would never give up their free parking so they students have a place on school property to play.

This has ... what to do with Maret and now other private schools locking in a sweetheart deal on a public soccer field?

+1 As someone mentioned up thread, if Maret wanted to live the values it claims to espouse, it could dig up its parking lot and put it underground as Sidwell did and have room for a regulation size playing field. But they have decided it’s better that they mooch off DC taxpayers.

DC taxpayers have been paying for Bowser’s friends to live large off of no-bid DC contracts (with no results) in their PG mini-mansions. Meanwhile the Maret community has footed the cost of actual physical infrastructure improvements at Jelleff. Your kids benefit from those improvements paid for by Maret. If there are moochers in this equation, they are not from Maret.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on. Stop drinking the DCLS Kool-Aid. Selfish, lazy staff are a chronic problem. To be sure there are some good, even a few outstanding, teachers. But a lot of them would never give up their free parking so they students have a place on school property to play.

This has ... what to do with Maret and now other private schools locking in a sweetheart deal on a public soccer field?

+1 As someone mentioned up thread, if Maret wanted to live the values it claims to espouse, it could dig up its parking lot and put it underground as Sidwell did and have room for a regulation size playing field. But they have decided it’s better that they mooch off DC taxpayers.

DC taxpayers have been paying for Bowser’s friends to live large off of no-bid DC contracts (with no results) in their PG mini-mansions. Meanwhile the Maret community has footed the cost of actual physical infrastructure improvements at Jelleff. Your kids benefit from those improvements paid for by Maret. If there are moochers in this equation, they are not from Maret.

Once again...

Maret uses the land for free.

DC can afford the improvements too.

My kids don’t benefit from Maret’s improvements; the handful of times they have been on the field, it was non-prime hours when other fields were available.

Bowser being shady does not make Maret’s (also no-bid) deal less corrupt.

Next?

[Anonymous]

“Maret uses the land for free.”

I call B.S. (more polite that saying “lie”). Maret pays for limited hours to practice at Jelleff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on. Stop drinking the DCLS Kool-Aid. Selfish, lazy staff are a chronic problem. To be sure there are some good, even a few outstanding, teachers. But a lot of them would never give up their free parking so they students have a place on school property to play.

This has ... what to do with Maret and now other private schools locking in a sweetheart deal on a public soccer field?

+1 As someone mentioned up thread, if Maret wanted to live the values it claims to espouse, it could dig up its parking lot and put it underground as Sidwell did and have room for a regulation size playing field. But they have decided it’s better that they mooch off DC taxpayers.

DC taxpayers have been paying for Bowser’s friends to live large off of no-bid DC contracts (with no results) in their PG mini-mansions. Meanwhile the Maret community has footed the cost of actual physical infrastructure improvements at Jelleff. Your kids benefit from those improvements paid for by Maret. If there are moochers in this equation, they are not from Maret.

Maret paid for improvements in 2009, and got what they agreed to at the time. Nobody is objecting to that deal. Now Maret is trying to get more than they agreed to in 2009, that is what people are objecting to. If someone agrees to a deal, and then later tries to change the terms, I would call that mooching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Maret uses the land for free.”

I call B.S. (more polite that saying “lie”). Maret pays for limited hours to practice at Jelleff.

They pay less than it would cost to use land that they owned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“Maret uses the land for free.”

I call B.S. (more polite that saying “lie”). Maret pays for limited hours to practice at Jelleff.

They pay less than it would cost to use land that they owned.

Huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on. Stop drinking the DCLS Kool-Aid. Selfish, lazy staff are a chronic problem. To be sure there are some good, even a few outstanding, teachers. But a lot of them would never give up their free parking so they students have a place on school property to play.

This has ... what to do with Maret and now other private schools locking in a sweetheart deal on a public soccer field?

+1 As someone mentioned up thread, if Maret wanted to live the values it claims to espouse, it could dig up its parking lot and put it underground as Sidwell did and have room for a regulation size playing field. But they have decided it’s better that they mooch off DC taxpayers.

DC taxpayers have been paying for Bowser’s friends to live large off of no-bid DC contracts (with no results) in their PG mini-mansions. Meanwhile the Maret community has footed the cost of actual physical infrastructure improvements at Jelleff. Your kids benefit from those improvements paid for by Maret. If there are moochers in this equation, they are not from Maret.

Maret paid for improvements in 2009, and got what they agreed to at the time. Nobody is objecting to that deal. Now Maret is trying to get more than they agreed to in 2009, that is what people are objecting to. If someone agrees to a deal, and then later tries to change the terms, I would call that mooching.

This. Maret paid about 2 million to use Jelleff for a decade when the city was in a fiscal crunch. Now it wants to pay less than a million to use Jelleff for another year when the public school age population has sharply increased and the city is “flush with cash” in the word of Maret parent and DC councilmember under a corruption investigation Jack Evans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on. Stop drinking the DCLS Kool-Aid. Selfish, lazy staff are a chronic problem. To be sure there are some good, even a few outstanding, teachers. But a lot of them would never give up their free parking so they students have a place on school property to play.

This has ... what to do with Maret and now other private schools locking in a sweetheart deal on a public soccer field?

+1 As someone mentioned up thread, if Maret wanted to live the values it claims to espouse, it could dig up its parking lot and put it underground as Sidwell did and have room for a regulation size playing field. But they have decided it’s better that they mooch off DC taxpayers.

DC taxpayers have been paying for Bowser’s friends to live large off of no-bid DC contracts (with no results) in their PG mini-mansions. Meanwhile the Maret community has footed the cost of actual physical infrastructure improvements at Jelleff. Your kids benefit from those improvements paid for by Maret. If there are moochers in this equation, they are not from Maret.

Maret paid for improvements in 2009, and got what they agreed to at the time. Nobody is objecting to that deal. Now Maret is trying to get more than they agreed to in 2009, that is what people are objecting to. If someone agrees to a deal, and then later tries to change the terms, I would call that mooching.

This. Maret paid about 2 million to use Jelleff for a decade when the city was in a fiscal crunch. Now it wants to pay less than a million to use Jelleff for another year when the public school age population has sharply increased and the city is “flush with cash” in the word of Maret parent and DC councilmember under a corruption investigation Jack Evans.

#maretgoaway has a graph that points out that Maret plans to pay 67% less for Jelleff in 2020 than it did in 2010, even though Dc land prices have skyrocketed during that period

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on. Stop drinking the DCLS Kool-Aid. Selfish, lazy staff are a chronic problem. To be sure there are some good, even a few outstanding, teachers. But a lot of them would never give up their free parking so they students have a place on school property to play.

This has ... what to do with Maret and now other private schools locking in a sweetheart deal on a public soccer field?

+1 As someone mentioned up thread, if Maret wanted to live the values it claims to espouse, it could dig up its parking lot and put it underground as Sidwell did and have room for a regulation size playing field. But they have decided it’s better that they mooch off DC taxpayers.

DC taxpayers have been paying for Bowser’s friends to live large off of no-bid DC contracts (with no results) in their PG mini-mansions. Meanwhile the Maret community has footed the cost of actual physical infrastructure improvements at Jelleff. Your kids benefit from those improvements paid for by Maret. If there are moochers in this equation, they are not from Maret.

Once again...

Maret uses the land for free.

DC can afford the improvements too.

My kids don’t benefit from Maret’s improvements; the handful of times they have been on the field, it was non-prime hours when other fields were available.

Bowser being shady does not make Maret’s (also no-bid) deal less corrupt.

Next?

+1. I find it shocking that the primary defense Maret seems to use is that DC is so corrupt that their little piece of corruption means nothing. Who wants people with that type of morality educating their children? (And who is dim enough to pay $40k/year for amoral instruction?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on. Stop drinking the DCLS Kool-Aid. Selfish, lazy staff are a chronic problem. To be sure there are some good, even a few outstanding, teachers. But a lot of them would never give up their free parking so they students have a place on school property to play.

This has ... what to do with Maret and now other private schools locking in a sweetheart deal on a public soccer field?

+1 As someone mentioned up thread, if Maret wanted to live the values it claims to espouse, it could dig up its parking lot and put it underground as Sidwell did and have room for a regulation size playing field. But they have decided it’s better that they mooch off DC taxpayers.

DC taxpayers have been paying for Bowser’s friends to live large off of no-bid DC contracts (with no results) in their PG mini-mansions. Meanwhile the Maret community has footed the cost of actual physical infrastructure improvements at Jelleff. Your kids benefit from those improvements paid for by Maret. If there are moochers in this equation, they are not from Maret.

Once again...

Maret uses the land for free.

DC can afford the improvements too.

My kids don’t benefit from Maret’s improvements; the handful of times they have been on the field, it was non-prime hours when other fields were available.

Bowser being shady does not make Maret’s (also no-bid) deal less corrupt.

Next?

+1. I find it shocking that the primary defense Maret seems to use is that DC is so corrupt that their little piece of corruption means nothing. Who wants people with that type of morality educating their children? (And who is dim enough to pay $40k/year for amoral instruction?)

And let it be known that Maret is sucking off the taxpayer teat because not only are they paying a ridiculously low price for Jelleff, they also don’t pay property taxes as a nonprofit organization (albeit a wealthy nonprofit that pays its head of school 400k/year which is 4x more than it will pay the DC govt to use Jelleff.)