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

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Anonymous wrote:Maret parents spending all that money for a third-tier private school not even close to the level of others in its backyard. Sad.

Taking away public fields from kids whose families in many cases earn less than the Maret parents spend per year for tuition.

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Anonymous wrote:Maret parents spending all that money for a third-tier private school not even close to the level of others in its backyard. Sad.

Taking away public fields from kids whose families in many cases earn less than the Maret parents spend per year for tuition.

It's also the case that Maret funds have paid - twice, it appears - to refurbish and renovate the Jeleff field so that other kids, advantaged and disadvantaged alike, play on the field as the beneficiaries of Maret's investment.

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Anonymous wrote:More Maret Jelleff in the news with respect to the school having tainted the debate around Ellington. I wonder how Maret feels being a case study in mismanagement of public land.

www.wusa9.com/amp/article/news/local/dc/nw-dc-residents-voice-concerns-over-future-of-recreational-field/65-0b73471d-bb32-42c7-80cd-0733a2c8e531

Ellington -- with its reputation for humungous cost overruns, funds "shrinkage", residency fraud, mismanagement and lack of accountability -- leaves behind a rather strong taint of its own.

You can smell the whiff of corruption all the way to the PG county line.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret parents spending all that money for a third-tier private school not even close to the level of others in its backyard. Sad.

Taking away public fields from kids whose families in many cases earn less than the Maret parents spend per year for tuition.

It's also the case that Maret funds have paid - twice, it appears - to refurbish and renovate the Jeleff field so that other kids, advantaged and disadvantaged alike, play on the field as the beneficiaries of Maret's investment.

Except not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret parents spending all that money for a third-tier private school not even close to the level of others in its backyard. Sad.

Taking away public fields from kids whose families in many cases earn less than the Maret parents spend per year for tuition.

It's also the case that Maret funds have paid - twice, it appears - to refurbish and renovate the Jeleff field so that other kids, advantaged and disadvantaged alike, play on the field as the beneficiaries of Maret's investment.

Maret can take back its paltry $95k/year if we can have our public park back. DC doesn't need Maret's pocket change. Unfortunately Maret can't afford a field of its own like top-tier privates.

[Anonymous]

With Jack Evans, architect of the Maret-Jelleff backroom deal running for Council again, despite resigning following corruption indictments, what does it say about dc residents’ prospects of ever reclaiming use of Jelleff field?

[Anonymous]

Will this become an issue again if Biden selects Susan Rice as his running mate? Any word from Brooke Pinto on the issue?

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Anonymous wrote:Will this become an issue again if Biden selects Susan Rice as his running mate? Any word from Brooke Pinto on the issue?

I have to say it was the first thing I thought of when I heard her name floated. Can't imagine it has national legs. But Rush Limbaugh has been known to make a big deal of sillier things.

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Anonymous wrote:Will this become an issue again if Biden selects Susan Rice as his running mate? Any word from Brooke Pinto on the issue?

I have to say it was the first thing I thought of when I heard her name floated. Can't imagine it has national legs. But Rush Limbaugh has been known to make a big deal of sillier things.

Yep. It plays very well into the narratives that are spun on talk radio about how globalist liberals take special pleasure in screwing over the American middle-class (in concert with Democratic city officials in this case). And if they come across her husband’s testimony at the Council hearing and then connect that with where she was the same day, they will have a field day. Who’s to say if would stick, but what Maret did to Jelleff is not going to help Susan at all.

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DC doesn’t necessarily need more tax revenue. It need to spend money more wisely. Too much is wasted on DCPS fluff like “esteem specialists” and “diversity advocates” and sole-source consulting agreements with mayoral cronies.

Do you mean sole source contracts like the one Dc has with Maret and mayoral crony Jack Evans? Yes fully agreed that the contract was improperly done and should be reversed. Can you tell marge Talbott and Ian Cameron?

Or spending millions on debt interest to buy land for a private school that was falling behind.

[Anonymous]

Wow, time flies. I can't believe a year has gone by. What have you done with your lives, all you complainers and backseat drivers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, time flies. I can't believe a year has gone by. What have you done with your lives, all you complainers and backseat drivers?

I lobbied the city to buy the GDS site. The city needs more facilities, especially when it keeps trying to give away the ones it has.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, time flies. I can't believe a year has gone by. What have you done with your lives, all you complainers and backseat drivers?

I quarantined to limit the spread of the worst pandemic in modern history and, in the process, got even more frustrated with elected and unelected officials that either don’t know enough or don’t care enough to promote the general interests of their constituents over those of the rich and the connected.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, time flies. I can't believe a year has gone by. What have you done with your lives, all you complainers and backseat drivers?

I quarantined to limit the spread of the worst pandemic in modern history and, in the process, got even more frustrated with elected and unelected officials that either don’t know enough or don’t care enough to promote the general interests of their constituents over those of the rich and the connected.

This. Certainly didn't spend it thinking about a school in the third-tier of DC privates, but it was nice for the reminder!

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Have wondered if this will gain legs again with BLM issues at forefront.