Janney Principal politely scolding parents...RANT

[Anonymous]

Geez, just suck it up and pay!

[Anonymous]

Failing to act on your concerns because you "wouldn't think she'd be very receptive" will certainly not solve your problem. In fact, it will be no more useful than posting about it on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

If your kids are 10 & 11, and you live in-boundary for Janney, why not make the kids walk to school? (Or if you don't live close enough for them to walk from your house, why not drop them someplace convenient & ask them to walk from there?) I wouldn't ask an 11 year old to do the walk solo, but with a close-in-age sibling I would call it safe (particularly in Tenleytown...).

Regarding aggressive parking enforcement, I suspect that it's in response to neighborhood complaints. People living near Janney need to get to work, or get their kids to school, and streets are less congested when (certain) parking regulations are adhered to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They're 10 and 11 and there are usually other kids on the playground.

And yes, I am objecting to the rule about forcing parents to accompany a 10 year old on an enclosed playground when there has been no parking because of construction and if you leave your car for 30 seconds anytime between 8:00-8:30 to accompany your child during the drop off or pick up between 3:15 and 3:45 you will have a $50 ticket. This is not "K" Street--or even Wisconsin Ave or Nebraska Ave. It is a little side street in Tenelytown for an elementary school.

i don't get this--why not park legally further down on Albermarle or on 43rd or 44th street? We manage to do this every morning and there is lots of parking. We park at 8:20, get to the school door at 8:30 exactly and then I RUN down the hill to my car and am off at 8:32.

Probably too lazy to walk and too cheap to pay for before care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They're 10 and 11 and there are usually other kids on the playground.

And yes, I am objecting to the rule about forcing parents to accompany a 10 year old on an enclosed playground when there has been no parking because of construction and if you leave your car for 30 seconds anytime between 8:00-8:30 to accompany your child during the drop off or pick up between 3:15 and 3:45 you will have a $50 ticket. This is not "K" Street--or even Wisconsin Ave or Nebraska Ave. It is a little side street in Tenelytown for an elementary school.

i don't get this--why not park legally further down on Albermarle or on 43rd or 44th street? We manage to do this every morning and there is lots of parking. We park at 8:20, get to the school door at 8:30 exactly and then I RUN down the hill to my car and am off at 8:32.

Probably too lazy to walk and too cheap to pay for before care.

Bingo!

She is special and needs to be accommodated don't you know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you need to enroll your Janney kids in Before Care.


From the Janney website:

Janney in the Morning Hours are 7:45 – 8:45 a.m.

More $$.

And there it is. The school provides a service to address exacrly - EXACTLY - the situation about which you complain - the need to drop kids off early. But you think . . . what? It should be free? The rules shouldn't apply to you? You should be able to take advantage of it without paying, while others pay? Elementary aged kids should be permitted unsupervised on the playground? What is your complaint, exactly? You know, don't bother complaining to the principal about this - I can't imagine you'll get any traction with, "I want you to provide free aftercare."

[Anonymous]

OP, you need to enroll your Janney kids in Before Care.


From the Janney website:

Janney in the Morning Hours are 7:45 – 8:45 a.m.



More $$.

Guess you should have thought about this before "going for a third," or whatever those recurring threads are called every 31 days like clockwork. It's a bitch. That's why so many of us, nay, the majority even, stop at 2 or even 1 kid. It's expensive and hard.

[Anonymous]

Lady, are you for real?

Children cannot be left unattended on a playground, especially one at a school undergoing construction, for liability reasons for that school.

Whether or not you think the security guards should be watching the kids is beside the point-it is not in their job description.

There is before-care offered at Janney...yes it costs money, but surely cheaper than $50/day you get when you ILLEGALLY park and get a ticket.

If you absolutely must drop them off prior to 8:30 (and that is fine), utilize the before-care, or drop them somewhere convenient and have them walk. 11 years old with a 10 year old accompanying is plenty old enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

OP, you need to enroll your Janney kids in Before Care.


From the Janney website:

Janney in the Morning Hours are 7:45 – 8:45 a.m.



More $$.

Guess you should have thought about this before "going for a third," or whatever those recurring threads are called every 31 days like clockwork. It's a bitch. That's why so many of us, nay, the majority even, stop at 2 or even 1 kid. It's expensive and hard.

AMEN!!! I wonder what would happen if they started charging those "going for a third" a population-control fee.

[Anonymous]

Please tell the ticket writers to come over to John Eaton or especially Hearst (where I've seen parents actually drop off children on the drivers' side in the middle of the street).

And tell them to ticket the out-of-DC plates double (but non-DC residents is the topic of another thread!).

[Anonymous]

Why in the heck are you parking and walking in 10 and 11 yos? You want to leave them unattended at a playground, but they can't be trusted to walk into school by themselves?

I call bullshit - not a real poster.

[Anonymous]

Janney has before care - suck it up and pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While the tickets are annoying, I have no doubt that the parents and others would abuse any and all ability to park around that school and would be there ALL day given their druthers.

It is a city. Deal with it.

PP, are you dealing with this situation? Because saying just deal with, it is the city, makes me think that you aren't but are just a smart ass.

There would be abusers who would park all day and those should be given tickets--but these Segway guys position themselves there at "drop off" and pick up times. Parents are not abusing the parking. They are there for a few minutes, to drop their kids into a PUBLIC SCHOOL.The city needs to make some accommodation with the parents. Access to PUBLIC EDUCATION IS A PRIVILEDGE. But it is like a feeding frenzy for the city ticketers. They make more$$ in one fell swoop than if they were to wait until 10:30 or so when you have the random nonparent commuter abusers who try to park and leave their cars all day. This is a very specific attack against parents as we have no choice but to drop our kids off early and draw the ire of the principal or park walk in and get a ticket. It is an OUTRAGE and I have really had it!!!!!! $$50 every time!!! In this economy!!!!!

Gee, how about your park your car a block or so away in a legal spot and then walk your kid to school - that is what I do every frigging day and I have 1 year old who I have to carry (rain, sleet or snow). Your sense of entitlement is shocking. BTW, the security officers are just that, they provide security, they are not there to provide free child care. If you really need to drop off early sign up for JED morning care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your kids are 10 & 11, and you live in-boundary for Janney, why not make the kids walk to school? (Or if you don't live close enough for them to walk from your house, why not drop them someplace convenient & ask them to walk from there?) I wouldn't ask an 11 year old to do the walk solo, but with a close-in-age sibling I would call it safe (particularly in Tenleytown...).

Regarding aggressive parking enforcement, I suspect that it's in response to neighborhood complaints. People living near Janney need to get to work, or get their kids to school, and streets are less congested when (certain) parking regulations are adhered to.

This. I am a Janney parent and I think that the no parking signs in front of Janney should be strictly enforced. I feel for the non-Janney people who need to get to Wisconsin via Albemarle in the morning. The line of traffic goes sometimes goes all the way to 43rd street all becasue of the people who feel that they have the right to parking in front of the school bc they cant be bothered to walk a few blocks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kids are 10 & 11, and you live in-boundary for Janney, why not make the kids walk to school? (Or if you don't live close enough for them to walk from your house, why not drop them someplace convenient & ask them to walk from there?) I wouldn't ask an 11 year old to do the walk solo, but with a close-in-age sibling I would call it safe (particularly in Tenleytown...).

Regarding aggressive parking enforcement, I suspect that it's in response to neighborhood complaints. People living near Janney need to get to work, or get their kids to school, and streets are less congested when (certain) parking regulations are adhered to.

This. I am a Janney parent and I think that the no parking signs in front of Janney should be strictly enforced. I feel for the non-Janney people who need to get to Wisconsin via Albemarle in the morning. The line of traffic goes sometimes goes all the way to 43rd street all becasue of the people who feel that they have the right to parking in front of the school bc they cant be bothered to walk a few blocks.

There are other streets. I go this way in the morning and I choose to take Yuma instead of Albermarle for this very reason so I do not really feel for the masses that choose to take Albermarle when they do not have a child to drop off.

The one thing I find unclear in the Principal's letter is exactly when is it okay to drop your child off. My DH drops off my first grader every morning, he generally leaves our house between 8:20/8:25 and drops her off between 8:25/8:30. Jamboree starts at 8:35, is it okay to drop off within the 10 minutes prior to Jamboree starting or only exactly at 8:35 and if it is 8:35, aren't those kids going to miss something? If you are doing a car drop off, it is not as if all the parents can get there exactly at 8:35, is there a start time when that is okay? I pay for JED before care if I have to drop her off early as in 8:00, it seems silly probably starting at arund 8:15 or so because there are so many people on the playground and before care JED (at least last year, have not yet used it this year) kept the kids inside.

Also, my DH would love to park and walk her in but parking is actually not as close/widely available as presented here. When I have gone and parked so I can walk her in for some particular reason, I always have to park a couple of blocks away and it is a bit of a hike. Our younger child goes to a preschool where the parking is more available and he parks and walks her in daily despite the director being willing to take kids directly from the cars during a drop off window.