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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WaPo has an article up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/a-private-school-saved-a-public-dc-field-should-it-get-preference-for-play-time/2019/10/21/7030f9c8-f412-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html[/quote]

I didn't expect much from the Post and it didn't disappoint.

Although I did like this bit: 
[quote]“They accused our children of being the quote, ‘Children of the powerful’ and denied quote, ‘black and brown kids’ access to the field,” said Ian Cameron, who leads the school’s board of trustees.
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His wife is Susan Rice. [/quote]

The lack of self-awareness of many of the Maret witnesses was breathtaking. They sure talk the talk. Their crisis PR guy, who is very likely a Maret parent, had them all singing from the same sheet music. “Misinformation” “social media” “the media” “back room deal” “race and privilege.” Were any of them able to look at how this so-called contract extension was handled and see how slimy it was? So many of them loved to wax poetic about how community minded Maret is and took offense to Silverman reminding everyone That Maret did what it did with Jelleff for Maret, first the foremost. The requirements added to the easement contract (ie the swimming pool) was the cost of doing business, not stuff Maret desired to pay for because they are good citizens. But they want to claim it now. Rewriting history. [/quote]

What’s even crazier is that some of them believe this stuff.  They took offense to being called “elite” and they think that “Maret saved Jelleff” when it was DC that saved Jelleff.  DC bought the land for millions of dollars, and then Maret threw up a fence.  Maybe it would have taken a year or two and been shabbier, but DC could have found the money to do renovations.
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Threw up a fence? Really now. Who knew redoing an entire field from essentially scratch, redoing a pool, putting up lights and protective fencing was so simple. So simple, in fact, that NO ONE stepped up 9 years ago when approached to help redo the field. Not British School, not other organizations, but Maret did. That’s the actual history and fact. And to ignore that is to be willfully ignorant. [/quote]

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