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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so doing the right thing doesn't factor in. got it.

Why is it the "right thing" for DPR to have to make arrangements for DCPS students' after school activities? It's a different agency, not responsible for students.

As I said, those of you making moral judgments here appear to be unfamiliar with the way local governments are organized, and operate.

Because public facilities should not be pay to play.

Because a rich organization should not be able to have exclusive access to public fields.

Because the govt has the responsibility of maintaining fields and providing fair access to all.

Because no one group should get to monopolize a public field.

+1.

Note also that currently Hardy plays its sports on DPR fields, lots of schools do, it's not a new concept or some sort of special request. It's not like Hardy is somehow asking for the moon when they ask to use a DPR field, they're just asking to use the one that's literally just across Wisconsin Avenue instead of one in a different quadrant like they do now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so doing the right thing doesn't factor in. got it.

Why is it the "right thing" for DPR to have to make arrangements for DCPS students' after school activities? It's a different agency, not responsible for students.

As I said, those of you making moral judgments here appear to be unfamiliar with the way local governments are organized, and operate.

Because public facilities should not be pay to play.

Because a rich organization should not be able to have exclusive access to public fields.

Because the govt has the responsibility of maintaining fields and providing fair access to all.

Because no one group should get to monopolize a public field.

+1.

Note also that currently Hardy plays its sports on DPR fields, lots of schools do, it's not a new concept or some sort of special request. It's not like Hardy is somehow asking for the moon when they ask to use a DPR field, they're just asking to use the one that's literally just across Wisconsin Avenue instead of one in a different quadrant like they do now.

Or they could just ask Dee-Cee-Pee-Ess to use a field that seems nearly always available — and could be made available on a dedicated basis to Hardy — just two or three blocks away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so doing the right thing doesn't factor in. got it.

Why is it the "right thing" for DPR to have to make arrangements for DCPS students' after school activities? It's a different agency, not responsible for students.

As I said, those of you making moral judgments here appear to be unfamiliar with the way local governments are organized, and operate.

Because public facilities should not be pay to play.

Because a rich organization should not be able to have exclusive access to public fields.

Because the govt has the responsibility of maintaining fields and providing fair access to all.

Because no one group should get to monopolize a public field.

How is 8 to 10 hours weekly for 10 weeks out of the year “exclusive” access and a “monopoly”? That’s not what the words mean. Let’s hope that Hardy has a space in the remedial English class!

[Anonymous]

Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

Do the Boys and Girls Club campers use the field before and after the “prime” athletic season? Doubtful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

Why not ask the Maret Board of Trustees what values their kids are learning? Because I see tons of language on their website about diversity and equity and they're not living their values.
https://www.maret.org/about-us/leadership
Ian Cameron, President
Leigh Comas, Vice President
Travis Allen ’93, Treasurer
Michael Kirshbaum ’94, Secretary
Mai Abdo
Alan Adler ’92
Esma Akin
David Burton
Steve Farina
Suzanne George
David Hall
Daniel Hartman
Margaret Johnson
Marc S. Lampkin
Tom Monahan
Vadim Nikitine
Lex Sant
Larry Siegel
Shooter Starr ’99, Alumni Council Representative
Ted Stettinius
Colin Stretch
Marjo Talbott
Aakash Thakkar
Tricia Primrose Wallace
Victoria Wassmer
Rachel Moore Weller
Sylvia White
Laily Zia, Parents Association Representative

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

Do the Boys and Girls Club campers use the field before and after the “prime” athletic season? Doubtful.

They're not "campers" you dimwit, they're kids from an afterschool programs for low-income DC students. Only someone from the Maret bubble would refer to them as "campers."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

One thing we can conclude is that even the top of the class at Hardy, if their parents are thinking of private school for high school, had better think of some other school that Maret. Hardy will be a scarlet letter with the Maret admissions director.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

Why not ask the Maret Board of Trustees what values their kids are learning? Because I see tons of language on their website about diversity and equity and they're not living their values.
https://www.maret.org/about-us/leadership
Ian Cameron, President
Leigh Comas, Vice President
Travis Allen ’93, Treasurer
Michael Kirshbaum ’94, Secretary
Mai Abdo
Alan Adler ’92
Esma Akin
David Burton
Steve Farina
Suzanne George
David Hall
Daniel Hartman
Margaret Johnson
Marc S. Lampkin
Tom Monahan
Vadim Nikitine
Lex Sant
Larry Siegel
Shooter Starr ’99, Alumni Council Representative
Ted Stettinius
Colin Stretch
Marjo Talbott
Aakash Thakkar
Tricia Primrose Wallace
Victoria Wassmer
Rachel Moore Weller
Sylvia White
Laily Zia, Parents Association Representative

Does Hardy have a parent advisory council? Let’s publish its member names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

Why not ask the Maret Board of Trustees what values their kids are learning? Because I see tons of language on their website about diversity and equity and they're not living their values.
https://www.maret.org/about-us/leadership
Ian Cameron, President
Leigh Comas, Vice President
Travis Allen ’93, Treasurer
Michael Kirshbaum ’94, Secretary
Mai Abdo
Alan Adler ’92
Esma Akin
David Burton
Steve Farina
Suzanne George
David Hall
Daniel Hartman
Margaret Johnson
Marc S. Lampkin
Tom Monahan
Vadim Nikitine
Lex Sant
Larry Siegel
Shooter Starr ’99, Alumni Council Representative
Ted Stettinius
Colin Stretch
Marjo Talbott
Aakash Thakkar
Tricia Primrose Wallace
Victoria Wassmer
Rachel Moore Weller
Sylvia White
Laily Zia, Parents Association Representative

Does Hardy have a parent advisory council? Let’s publish its member names.

No, it's a public school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

Why not ask the Maret Board of Trustees what values their kids are learning? Because I see tons of language on their website about diversity and equity and they're not living their values.
https://www.maret.org/about-us/leadership
Ian Cameron, President
Leigh Comas, Vice President
Travis Allen ’93, Treasurer
Michael Kirshbaum ’94, Secretary
Mai Abdo
Alan Adler ’92
Esma Akin
David Burton
Steve Farina
Suzanne George
David Hall
Daniel Hartman
Margaret Johnson
Marc S. Lampkin
Tom Monahan
Vadim Nikitine
Lex Sant
Larry Siegel
Shooter Starr ’99, Alumni Council Representative
Ted Stettinius
Colin Stretch
Marjo Talbott
Aakash Thakkar
Tricia Primrose Wallace
Victoria Wassmer
Rachel Moore Weller
Sylvia White
Laily Zia, Parents Association Representative

Does Hardy have a parent advisory council? Let’s publish its member names.

No, it's a public school.

Unlike Maret-DC public schools like Hardy, Eaton, Hyde Addison, Mann and Stoddert have nothing to be ashamed of. (And PS-all these names are proudly posted on Maret’s website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

One thing we can conclude is that even the top of the class at Hardy, if their parents are thinking of private school for high school, had better think of some other school that Maret. Hardy will be a scarlet letter with the Maret admissions director.

Hardy parents are unlikely to want to expose their children to Maret Values.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

Why not ask the Maret Board of Trustees what values their kids are learning? Because I see tons of language on their website about diversity and equity and they're not living their values.
https://www.maret.org/about-us/leadership
Ian Cameron, President
Leigh Comas, Vice President
Travis Allen ’93, Treasurer
Michael Kirshbaum ’94, Secretary
Mai Abdo
Alan Adler ’92
Esma Akin
David Burton
Steve Farina
Suzanne George
David Hall
Daniel Hartman
Margaret Johnson
Marc S. Lampkin
Tom Monahan
Vadim Nikitine
Lex Sant
Larry Siegel
Shooter Starr ’99, Alumni Council Representative
Ted Stettinius
Colin Stretch
Marjo Talbott
Aakash Thakkar
Tricia Primrose Wallace
Victoria Wassmer
Rachel Moore Weller
Sylvia White
Laily Zia, Parents Association Representative

Does Hardy have a parent advisory council? Let’s publish its member names.

It’s public. Jeez, you really aren’t very bright.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

One thing we can conclude is that even the top of the class at Hardy, if their parents are thinking of private school for high school, had better think of some other school that Maret. Hardy will be a scarlet letter with the Maret admissions director.

Hardy parents are unlikely to want to expose their children to Maret Values.

+1. And why would anyone want to pay $40k/year for a school that doesn’t even have a playing field? Every other private in this area has better resources so it’s only the people who can’t get their kids into a better private who go to to Maret.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students? What sorts of values are the kids there learning?

One thing we can conclude is that even the top of the class at Hardy, if their parents are thinking of private school for high school, had better think of some other school that Maret. Hardy will be a scarlet letter with the Maret admissions director.

Hardy parents are unlikely to want to expose their children to Maret Values.

Right? Maret STILL doesn’t get what a PR disaster this is. One thing I’ve learned from this thread is that Maret isn’t the only school out there with sweetheart deals in DC. Just the only one willing to egg on bad impressions on this very easily searchable website! Google Maret right now — after their own website, a bunch of articles about their “special access” to a public field pop up. Terrible, terrible impressions for anyone looking for private school.