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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s disappointing that the Hardy and B&GC parents (and kids) and civic space advocates haven’t organized anything bar a petition and a useless ANC vote. Those of us on here seem to care much more about it than they do. Oh well.

Have you called your Councilperson and Mayor Bowser?

Nice deflection. The point is that the form of mass direct action that is needed to turn this into a political issue that the mayor can’t ignore - and, yes, the mayor can certainly ignore phone calls - is not being organized.

Then why don’t you plan something? If you have a good plan for a successful sit-in, I’ll show up.

I don’t know the people at BGC or Hardy; I don’t know if they have not planned a sit-in because it is outside of their skill set or they don’t think it is wise strategically for some readers. Beats me.

But I don’t understand why you — who is apparently doing nothing— are criticizing other people for not suddenly being activism professionals.

I would be happy to help them, but it’s fairly hard for you or I to organize actions involving the students if we do not have a connection to the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s disappointing that the Hardy and B&GC parents (and kids) and civic space advocates haven’t organized anything bar a petition and a useless ANC vote. Those of us on here seem to care much more about it than they do. Oh well.

Who is this asshole that keeps posting this? Seems like someone intent on trying to undercut efforts.

[Anonymous]

Good editorial in the Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/local-opinions/dcs-parks-department-is-playing-for-the-wrong-team/2019/09/06/884e41c2-c808-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s disappointing that the Hardy and B&GC parents (and kids) and civic space advocates haven’t organized anything bar a petition and a useless ANC vote. Those of us on here seem to care much more about it than they do. Oh well.

Who is this asshole that keeps posting this? Seems like someone intent on trying to undercut efforts.

Undercut what efforts? What is actually being done beyond people signing a petition, making a few phone calls, and journalism as thin as the paper it’s written on. Those who are giving the impression to anyone that such ‘clicktivism’ is going to make a difference to corruption in this town are very much the assholes. The mayor herself is trying to use emergency legislation to give away DCPS buildings to elite privates. And you now expect her to backtrack on Jelleff because a few middle-class Ward-2/3ers called her office and clicked on a petition. Come on. Get serious. Undercutting efforts . . . Please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good editorial in the Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/local-opinions/dcs-parks-department-is-playing-for-the-wrong-team/2019/09/06/884e41c2-c808-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html

That’s not an editorial. That’s an op-ed. Had the editors cared about the issue, they wouldn’t have sent a conflicted intern to write a hack story on it in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s disappointing that the Hardy and B&GC parents (and kids) and civic space advocates haven’t organized anything bar a petition and a useless ANC vote. Those of us on here seem to care much more about it than they do. Oh well.

Who is this asshole that keeps posting this? Seems like someone intent on trying to undercut efforts.

Undercutting efforts to keep Jelleff with Maret? Yep.

[Anonymous]

Great piece in the post. I really wonder why the WaPo isn't investigating this more. Do the editors kids also attend Maret?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great piece in the post. I really wonder why the WaPo isn't investigating this more. Do the editors kids also attend Maret?

Perhaps the editors boss

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s disappointing that the Hardy and B&GC parents (and kids) and civic space advocates haven’t organized anything bar a petition and a useless ANC vote. Those of us on here seem to care much more about it than they do. Oh well.

Who is this asshole that keeps posting this? Seems like someone intent on trying to undercut efforts.

Undercut what efforts? What is actually being done beyond people signing a petition, making a few phone calls, and journalism as thin as the paper it’s written on. Those who are giving the impression to anyone that such ‘clicktivism’ is going to make a difference to corruption in this town are very much the assholes. The mayor herself is trying to use emergency legislation to give away DCPS buildings to elite privates. And you now expect her to backtrack on Jelleff because a few middle-class Ward-2/3ers called her office and clicked on a petition. Come on. Get serious. Undercutting efforts . . . Please.

There's nothing to organize against. The whole process has been conducted far, far away from the light of day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good editorial in the Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/local-opinions/dcs-parks-department-is-playing-for-the-wrong-team/2019/09/06/884e41c2-c808-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html

That’s not an editorial. That’s an op-ed. Had the editors cared about the issue, they wouldn’t have sent a conflicted intern to write a hack story on it in the first place.

It was written by a member of ANC 2E, not anyone at the Post.

[Anonymous]

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I should note that the Duke Ellington track & field, located at Reservoir Road & 38th Street, was just taken away from DCPS and given to DPR over the summer without any public notice.

Something is definitely rotten in DPR and DCPS. I guarantee that the Mayor knows all of this.

What came out at the ANC meeting on Tuesday is that Maret plays their home football games at Ellington. Since they have a special relationship with DPR it would seem to fit their interests to have DPR controlling that field.

[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.

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.

With private schools, the thing to look at in addition to admissions is financial aid.

Private schools are completely unaccountable in terms of who they give aid to and how much. If they want to give a student a "merit scholarship" that's completely up to the school, they don't have to disclose what they've done. And the family that gets the aid doesn't have to report it as income or disclose it in any way.

The question I would ask is how much tuition Jack Evans paid in the years his son was there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All:

I should note that the Duke Ellington track & field, located at Reservoir Road & 38th Street, was just taken away from DCPS and given to DPR over the summer without any public notice.

Something is definitely rotten in DPR and DCPS. I guarantee that the Mayor knows all of this.

What came out at the ANC meeting on Tuesday is that Maret plays their home football games at Ellington. Since they have a special relationship with DPR it would seem to fit their interests to have DPR controlling that field.

They play one home game at Ellington--homecoming. These ANC meetings are filled with complete lies and misinformation.

[Anonymous]

There should be a bidding process. Let Maret bid against DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be a bidding process. Let Maret bid against DCPS.

Public fields aren’t supposed to be auctioned to the highest bidder. That’s the whole point of it being public, not private.