Hearst Playground story in Current

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Revised translation: my kids are too good for Stoddert so I have them play on turf fieids in other people's neighborhoods. I doubt your kid made Stoddert Red or Blue so you are just bitter.

Actually, I think Stoddert is a great soccer program for developing soccer players. It gets kids and their parents invested in the game. But it is a parent-coached little kid league. It was never designed for kids who want to play at the club level. Stoddert is just not a factor when it comes to tournaments or regional play. Other area clubs benefit from Stoddert and as much as I oppose Stoddert's efforts to seize Hearst field, I believe it plays a critical role in developing very young players. You are still the Stoddert douche...douche.

Stoddert U13 girls just won Virginia State Cup and were 2-1 in the regionals.

Keep making up "facts."

[Anonymous]

Stoddert U13 girls just won Virginia State Cup and were 2-1 in the regionals.

Keep making up "facts."

Thanks. I just spit my coffee on my desk. You are hilarious. Please see my above post. I think you should note that u-13s are 12& 13-year-olds. They are in middle school. Stoddert is a great developmental program. 6th and 7th graders are in the developmental stage. But congrats. That is actually really great to hear about Stoddert girls doing well. I checked out the teams' record and they doing great, so kudos to Stoddert. Keep your mitts off Hearst. Plastic fields suck in the summer and may cause cancer.

[Anonymous]

I love this. The Hearst Nazi keeps coming up with all sorts of BS to defend her position and at every turn is thwarted by facts.

Lady, Stoddert has a little kid program, but starting at the earliest ages regionally, has a competitive travel program for both boys and girls. Just because your kid didn't make the cut and is playing for another program, doesn't give you the right to dictate how Hearst is developed. But I am glad that you enjoying driving to other people's neighborhoods so your kid can play soccer on their fields.

Hypocrite.

[Anonymous]

love this. The Hearst Nazi keeps coming up with all sorts of BS to defend her position and at every turn is thwarted by facts.

Lady, Stoddert has a little kid program, but starting at the earliest ages regionally, has a competitive travel program for both boys and girls. Just because your kid didn't make the cut and is playing for another program, doesn't give you the right to dictate how Hearst is developed. But I am glad that you enjoying driving to other people's neighborhoods so your kid can play soccer on their fields.

Calling someone a Nazi because they care about the environment is sick. Just stop. That's really ugly.

[Anonymous]

Then stop being ugly be forcing your personal will on everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Don't you get it? Stoddert is forcing its will. It's the organization pushing for turf on the field that has been the same way for 80 years. I want nothing. I want zilch. You all are the people bent on environmental destruction. Leave Hearst alone. That is all that we are asking. But I am really, really, really glad we now know who is behind it.
Stoddert has a field problem. I get it. But use Hearst as is. We don't know need artificial turf there. Nothing, nothing, nothing wrong with natural grass. The field conditions are fine for little kids. They were fine for my kids.

[Anonymous]

No, you are trying to impose your will of no change on a public park. I never even heard anyone at the public meeting talk about turfing the field. This is all a red herring to get away from a pool.

It is up to DPR to program a public park to provide recreational facilities and activities to the residents of the District of Columbia.

You do not get to dictate your wishes, dreams and aspirations for a barely used set of tennis courts and a barren dirt field on the rest of the taxpayers in the community.

[Anonymous]

You do not get to dictate your wishes, dreams and aspirations for a barely used set of tennis courts and a barren dirt field on the rest of the taxpayers in the community.

. Who is dictating what? Many of us are fine with the status quo. Aren't you the ones dictating the spending of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on a project serving a youth soccer club?

On the pool issue, I'm agnostic. I would prefer that the park stay as is. But if DPR can they replace the tennis courts with a pool, I'm not sure I care. I am totally opposed to putting plastic on the field or taking down the trees. Every current blade of grass at Hearst should be protected. If a pool can be crammed into the area where the tennis courts are, I'm ok with that kind of compromise.

[Anonymous]

Even the status quo is imposing your wishes on the taxpaying members of the community. DPR is responsible for programming public space, not you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even the status quo is imposing your wishes on the taxpaying members of the community. DPR is responsible for programming public space, not you.

But DPR said they were told by Mary Cheh what to do. So apparently she is the one responsible for programming public space.

[Anonymous]

The DPR person at Hearst needs upgrades and has been asking for them for more than a decade. Complain to her while she is managing 60 kids in the little stone house after school.

[Anonymous]

It's Stoddert that is behind this. This thread exposed that.

1. Stoddert has a field shortage
2. Stoddert has complained to Cheh and the council about its field shortage.
3. Stoddert can exert a lot of political pressure to have its field built.
4. Cheh volunteered Hearst and threw in a pool.
5. Stoddert and Cheh are the threat.

[Anonymous]

Not a threat of you want improvements to the park, regardless of your conspiracy theories.

[Anonymous]

I don't want the park turned into a aquatic center or soccer complex. That's f'd up.

[Anonymous]

From Mary Cheh's bio

Mary is a former member of the Murch after-school board, a Stoddert soccer coach (and a licensed referee), and member of the Stoddert Board.