Maret still hoarding resources

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Anonymous wrote:Because that’s what your city counselors agreed to.


In a corrupt, "emergency" agreement. You would think Maret would have the integrity to stop enriching itseslf based on a corrupt deal now that it has solved its facilities problem.


Sounds like your issue is more with the city council. Probably best to lobby them than to appeal to the integrity of a private school on an anonymous message board.


Maret and the councilmembers in 2019 should be ashamed.

My problem is with both of them, and people have complained, of course, to the city council The reality is that it is harder for the city council to fix than Maret, who can just STOP using the field today.

How is it that they still want Maret along with their new fields? Aren't the new fields enough?!


No they’re not.


Why not? What will they do in 2030? Bribe politicians to hold onto Jelleff again?

Is that when the lease is up?
Anonymous
It’s a binding contract in which maret spent money in exchange for using field for certain number of hours. You can file a lawsuit if you think the contract was unfair.
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Anonymous wrote:Because that’s what your city counselors agreed to.


“We ignite our students' potential; foster their academic, artistic, and athletic talents; and promote their well-being. We develop the mind, nurture curiosity, welcome challenge, embrace joy, and build community that is equitable and inclusive.”

Hoarding a field when you have your own cuts against an equitable and inclusive community.

The school could at least give up a couple days week to let Hardy practice.


Hoarding? Or using the field in accordance with an agreement they signed with the city?



Yeah, the agreement that allows Maret to hoard the field. Because there is an agreement with the city doesn’t mean it’s just.


+1 It was a widely criticized no-bid, no review deal for a decade, and then Maret exercised its right to renew for another decade despite major community mobilization against it. I can't wait for the day that Maret gets its greedy paws off of the Jelleff field, which DPR is paying $28 million to renovate.


Why should hardy school get its greedy hand in Jelleff Recreation Center when the DPR is paying for it? The Jelleff Recreation Center is very bad shape. The schools budget in $2.8 billion DPR budget is $986 million. Hardy needs to step up and put some money on the table.
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Anonymous wrote:I guess the issue is that there is a contract where Maret has the right to use it, and that contract still remains valid.

If a person has a rental agreement, they will continue have the right to decide who enters the apartment even thought they don’t live there. So I guess is a contractual issue.


Yes. Maret could end the contract.


Will Hardy reimburse Maret for the money spent on the field? My kid use that field all the time of club sports. It is the only field in NW that is maintained and has lights. Is Hardy going to maintain the property and keep it open in during non school hours and weekend? Will Hardy pay to get the field house renovated? That field has a lot more people using vs just Maret.

What will happen to the British School? They use the field a lot during the day. Why can’t Hardy just do a morning practice at the field if it is so important? Maret uses the field from 3:30 to 5:30. It is open the rest of the day.

Guess it is more fun to be outraged vs actually adjust a schedule and use the field?


The DC government--whether DPR or DCPS--should be responsible for paying for the maintenance, just like Guy Mason or Turtle Park or Jackson-Reed.

Maret's reimbursement for spending money was a decade of reserved usage. Oddly, though, that decade got extended for another decade.

Maret's BS line is "We only have the field for 0.02% of the year," as though having the field at 2am on a snowy Saturday night is useful to anyone.

Every school needs the same weekday, after school, Fall and Spring hours. (Gee, why doesn't Maret take the morning slot? They've got buses on-site, ready to drive kids.)

And to the "It's a DPR thing" person -- yes, if you want to reserve the field on Saturday or Sunday, that's a DPR permitting issue. But the weekday, after school hours are not available for permitting.


+1 Maret can use some of the $55k/year it gets in tuition to get its own field and not hoard a public research that it acquired through a sketchy DC council deal that wasn't offered to any institution but Maret. DPR put in $28 million in its budget to renovate Jelleff. It does need the paltry few hundred thousand that Maret gave to get its exclusive access to peak afterschool practice hours, while kids in Jelleff aftercare and at Hardy middle school across the street are forced to play indoors at the rec center or at fields far away.


Private School That Pocketed Public Rec Center Is Tired Of Being Criticized By Non-Rich People
https://deadspin.com/private-school-that-pocketed-public-rec-center-is-tired-1839260457/
Jelleff neighbors and parents at the nearby public schools have spent the last several years watching and waiting for Maret’s 10-year deal to end so they could get more use out of the rec center. But Maret and the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation quietly made a back-door deal while schools were out that extended that sweetheart 2010 pact through 2029.

In August head of school Marjo Talbott told Deadspin that despite dubious contract language and protests, she never doubted the public field would remain under her control. “This is not a luxury. It was an expectation,” Talbott said of the no-bid extension. (Talbott comes from a very connected D.C. family: Her brother, Nelson Strobridge “Strobe” Talbott III, was deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration.)


Connections seemed to be a big thing at Maret. Councilmember Jack Evans, D.C.’s longest-tenured elected official and a guy who is frequently hailed as the most corrupt politician in a city where corruption is as abundant as playing fields are scarce, was a leading force behind the 2010 deal relinquishing the government’s control over Jelleff; Evans’s son attended Maret.



Wow talk about lying! Jelleff Recreation Center is different vs the field. It’s the dilapidated gym on the property. What else have you been lying about?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Because that’s what your city counselors agreed to.


“We ignite our students' potential; foster their academic, artistic, and athletic talents; and promote their well-being. We develop the mind, nurture curiosity, welcome challenge, embrace joy, and build community that is equitable and inclusive.”

Hoarding a field when you have your own cuts against an equitable and inclusive community.

The school could at least give up a couple days week to let Hardy practice.


Hoarding? Or using the field in accordance with an agreement they signed with the city?



Yeah, the agreement that allows Maret to hoard the field. Because there is an agreement with the city doesn’t mean it’s just.


+1 It was a widely criticized no-bid, no review deal for a decade, and then Maret exercised its right to renew for another decade despite major community mobilization against it. I can't wait for the day that Maret gets its greedy paws off of the Jelleff field, which DPR is paying $28 million to renovate.


Why should hardy school get its greedy hand in Jelleff Recreation Center when the DPR is paying for it? The Jelleff Recreation Center is very bad shape. The schools budget in $2.8 billion DPR budget is $986 million. Hardy needs to step up and put some money on the table.


This kind of comment is so stupid. Do you not understand the differencep in a single-campus private school and a public school system?

An individual DCPS school does not pay out of its budget for facilities. DCPS does. But DCPS also coordinates with DPR for the use of a lot of athletic facilities.

DCPS and DPR are both under the same city budget and the same mayoral control.
Anonymous
Maybe families could consider going to private school and the concerns will disappear.
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Anonymous wrote:Maybe families could consider going to private school and the concerns will disappear.


Maybe Maret could use the $55k a year it gets from tuition/fees and get its own field instead of hoarding the prime after school hours from a DPR field for 20 years.
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Anonymous wrote:Maybe families could consider going to private school and the concerns will disappear.


Maybe Maret could use the $55k a year it gets from tuition/fees and get its own field instead of hoarding the prime after school hours from a DPR field for 20 years.


We already used part of the tuition to repair the field in exchange for using it for some hours a week.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe families could consider going to private school and the concerns will disappear.


Maybe Maret could use the $55k a year it gets from tuition/fees and get its own field instead of hoarding the prime after school hours from a DPR field for 20 years.


We already used part of the tuition to repair the field in exchange for using it for some hours a week.


Yes, you paid a sweetheart rate of $2 million for exclusive prime hour use for 20 years that was only open to Maret. DPR is putting in $28 million now to really renovate the field and make it usable for all DC residents, not just private school kids whose school is too cheap to spend on its own capital projects.
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Anonymous wrote:Maret hasn't used the field since last fall. DPR is in charge of permitting.


Maret doesn't use the field in the winter. Maret has claim to the same time that every school needs fields -- weekdays, after school, Fall and Spring.



Maret is not currently using the field. DPR is in charge of permitting.


No, Maret's weekday, after school, Fall and Spring time is not avaible for permitting.

Hardy was apparently told by Maret that they are using the field.


The problem is that it’s not Hardy’s field either. Just one set of entitled ppl replacing another. It is Jelleff’s field and should be used primarily for the kids in the rec center. Hardy needs to solve its own problem not in the backs of the rec center kids.


Actually, Hardy and the Rec Center could share just fine. Neither needs it all of the field nor every day. Either way, DCPS and DPR should be solving the problem for both Hardy and the Rec Center, not just hand the public resource to a single, small private school who now has their own fields.


+1 If Maret tries to extend its shady deal into a third decade, the community outcry will be unbelievable.
Anonymous
Outside of families with kids enrolled at Maret, does anyone actually like this school? They certainly haven’t done their reputation in the community any favors…yikes.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe families could consider going to private school and the concerns will disappear.


Maybe Maret could use the $55k a year it gets from tuition/fees and get its own field instead of hoarding the prime after school hours from a DPR field for 20 years.


We already used part of the tuition to repair the field in exchange for using it for some hours a week.


Yes, you paid a sweetheart rate of $2 million for exclusive prime hour use for 20 years that was only open to Maret. DPR is putting in $28 million now to really renovate the field and make it usable for all DC residents, not just private school kids whose school is too cheap to spend on its own capital projects.


Well, it’s a legal contract you like or not.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Outside of families with kids enrolled at Maret, does anyone actually like this school? They certainly haven’t done their reputation in the community any favors…yikes.


In fact yes, the acceptance ratio is less than 10 percent. So there is huge demand for attending Maret.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe families could consider going to private school and the concerns will disappear.


Maybe Maret could use the $55k a year it gets from tuition/fees and get its own field instead of hoarding the prime after school hours from a DPR field for 20 years.


We already used part of the tuition to repair the field in exchange for using it for some hours a week.


Yes, you paid a sweetheart rate of $2 million for exclusive prime hour use for 20 years that was only open to Maret. DPR is putting in $28 million now to really renovate the field and make it usable for all DC residents, not just private school kids whose school is too cheap to spend on its own capital projects.


Well, it’s a legal contract you like or not.


Slavery was a legal contract. Didn't make it just. Maret's backroom "legal contract" to grab Jelleff isn't just either.
Anonymous
And it would seem that some of the top universities in the country like Maret, or at least their graduates.

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