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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I oppose hardy taking over a public park. The park is not there for hardy.

O good lord. At least get educated on the issue before you comment.

Useless...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, it is not stupidity to question the motivation behind a deal that makes no sense for DC residents. Jack Evans has already engaged in some questionable behavior. Why not an investigation?

It was said somewhere above that Jack Evans’s son started at Maret the year after this deal. If that is accurate, that's really bad, because it means the son was applying at the same time that this deal was worked out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When and where is the protest? This city’s economic and political elite are hand-in-glove in stealing public resources from the 99%. This egregious corruption shouldn’t be normalized. We need media attention to get the FBI’s attention.

Snicker. Well, I see the hysteria over this has reached peak stupidity.

Nice one. Well, if you can explain how a back-room deal to give away an in-demand public resource to a very wealthy private entity came about without anything happening that may be of interest to the Feds, I guess you’re smarter than most of us here. While it may all just be the result of supreme incompetence at DPR, that’s what an investigation should figure out. And hysteria? If you think these sorts of deals should be done in the form they are done without public outrage, democracy is not a friend of yours.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When and where is the protest? This city’s economic and political elite are hand-in-glove in stealing public resources from the 99%. This egregious corruption shouldn’t be normalized. We need media attention to get the FBI’s attention.

Snicker. Well, I see the hysteria over this has reached peak stupidity.

Nice one. Well, if you can explain how a back-room deal to give away an in-demand public resource to a very wealthy private entity came about without anything happening that may be of interest to the Feds, I guess you’re smarter than most of us here. While it may all just be the result of supreme incompetence at DPR, that’s what an investigation should figure out. And hysteria? If you think these sorts of deals should be done in the form they are done without public outrage, democracy is not a friend of yours.

Considering the Jack Evans connection (son applied to Maret the same year the deal was struck; Evans under current federal investigation for pay to play), not such a stretch.

[Anonymous]

Investigating Evans might be the best way to undo this deal, especially if it can be shown that Evans and maret had a special arrangement

[Anonymous]

Finally!: https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/why-dont-we-get-the-field-use-of-playing-field-pits-an-elite-private-school-against-dc-public-schools/2019/08/31/5081b5de-ca5c-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Finally!: https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/why-dont-we-get-the-field-use-of-playing-field-pits-an-elite-private-school-against-dc-public-schools/2019/08/31/5081b5de-ca5c-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

Not a very detailed article. They don’t even mention Evans. This reads like a check the box piece. Shame.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Finally!: https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/why-dont-we-get-the-field-use-of-playing-field-pits-an-elite-private-school-against-dc-public-schools/2019/08/31/5081b5de-ca5c-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

Not a very detailed article. They don’t even mention Evans. This reads like a check the box piece. Shame.

Agreed. Crap journalism that doesn’t even reference the various nuggets unearthed by DCUM posters. It also leads with Maret’s counter-arguments. We need the Sun to start covering DC. WaPo is useless at it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finally!: https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/why-dont-we-get-the-field-use-of-playing-field-pits-an-elite-private-school-against-dc-public-schools/2019/08/31/5081b5de-ca5c-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

Not a very detailed article. They don’t even mention Evans. This reads like a check the box piece. Shame.

Agreed. Crap journalism that doesn’t even reference the various nuggets unearthed by DCUM posters. It also leads with Maret’s counter-arguments. We need the Sun to start covering DC. WaPo is useless at it.

It took the WaPo a long time to finally get this in print and it’s really badly written. “ Person x said everyone at the community meeting hated the Maret deal. But the Maret head of school said everyone was very positive about the deal.” Nothing included that a reporter might do to ascertain which opinion was true (or closer to the truth). The reporter went to Georgetown Day and it looks like she took everything the head of school of Maret said as Gospel.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finally!: https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/why-dont-we-get-the-field-use-of-playing-field-pits-an-elite-private-school-against-dc-public-schools/2019/08/31/5081b5de-ca5c-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

Not a very detailed article. They don’t even mention Evans. This reads like a check the box piece. Shame.

Agreed. Crap journalism that doesn’t even reference the various nuggets unearthed by DCUM posters. It also leads with Maret’s counter-arguments. We need the Sun to start covering DC. WaPo is useless at it.

It took the WaPo a long time to finally get this in print and it’s really badly written. “ Person x said everyone at the community meeting hated the Maret deal. But the Maret head of school said everyone was very positive about the deal.” Nothing included that a reporter might do to ascertain which opinion was true (or closer to the truth). The reporter went to Georgetown Day and it looks like she took everything the head of school of Maret said as Gospel.

She termed the opponents “an angry coalition” — that’s inappropriately perjorative.

[Anonymous]

Diploma from GDS. BA from Harvard. At the post for 10 years. And that's the best she can do after Deadspin did all the work for her? She's been thoroughly out-journoed by a bunch of anons on DCUM. You don’t really appreciate how crap the media is until you see their work up close.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finally!: https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/why-dont-we-get-the-field-use-of-playing-field-pits-an-elite-private-school-against-dc-public-schools/2019/08/31/5081b5de-ca5c-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

Not a very detailed article. They don’t even mention Evans. This reads like a check the box piece. Shame.

Agreed. Crap journalism that doesn’t even reference the various nuggets unearthed by DCUM posters. It also leads with Maret’s counter-arguments. We need the Sun to start covering DC. WaPo is useless at it.

It took the WaPo a long time to finally get this in print and it’s really badly written. “ Person x said everyone at the community meeting hated the Maret deal. But the Maret head of school said everyone was very positive about the deal.” Nothing included that a reporter might do to ascertain which opinion was true (or closer to the truth). The reporter went to Georgetown Day and it looks like she took everything the head of school of Maret said as Gospel.

She termed the opponents “an angry coalition” — that’s inappropriately perjorative.

I had to laugh when I read the sentence that Talbott said about Maret being a good partner to the community because they let a public school use Jelleff for one hour a week on Wednesdays. Yup, that’s the socially responsible Maret we all know and love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Diploma from GDS. BA from Harvard. At the post for 10 years. And that's the best she can do after Deadspin did all the work for her? She's been thoroughly out-journoed by a bunch of anons on DCUM. You don’t really appreciate how crap the media is until you see their work up close.

I thought she was an intern. Either way it’s a crap article. No point of view. No digging into the costs of the land and the deal and what information has and has not been made public. Just “he said, she said” last journalism. It’s a sad day when the DCist outreports the Washington Post by a mile.

[Anonymous]

Not real clear.

Private school pays to have public land redeveloped, wants to use it exclusively during school hours.

Neighborhood community pays nothing, but wants exclusive use 24 hours per day...

Ummmm ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not real clear.

Private school pays to have public land redeveloped, wants to use it exclusively during school hours.

Neighborhood community pays nothing, but wants exclusive use 24 hours per day...

Ummmm ok.

You must be a Maret shill or just profoundly uninformed. DC bought Jelleff for $15 million and has allocated $7 million to update its Rec center. Yet Maret retains exclusive rights on Jelleff during weekdays because it promises to upgrade some AstroTurf and build a fence. Sign me up for that deal! I can beat Maret’s offer.