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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cameron complains about the lack of field space in NW DC. Go and have a look at a satellite image (via, say, Google Maps) of the area around Maret. WIS has a full size field just over 1,000 feet from Maret. Beauvoir / NCS has no less than three full-size fields just 1,500 feet away. Sidwell Friends has one a mile away. AU has multiple fields under 2 miles away.

Yet Maret opts that it’s best option to “stay competitive” with the other DC elite schools - all the whole keeping K-12 on a common campus - is to crowd DCPS and B&GC kids out of what should be their space.

Once again, Cameron complains about the lack of field space. In a city facing a climate, transportation and affordable housing crisis. I wonder whose homes Cameron thinks should be bulldozed to provide those fields? What trees should go? Does he think that this city needs more SUVs shuttling kids to and from games and practices? [/quote]

Maret could certainly use the fields of WIS, NCS, Sidwell and/or AU. These are closer and better than Jelleff. They didn’t pursue these options, I suspect, because it would be both less dignified (!) and more expensive than taking the public school kids’ fields.

And I hope Bowser was listening when Ian Cameron was complaining about the lack of fields in Wards 2 & 3.

The previous week, Bowser announced that she wants over a thousand affordable housing units built in that part of the city. Apart from the former Trolley Trail in the Palisades, there is no idle land anywhere west of Rock Creek Park. I can’t see Bowser hacking down trees to build new houses and there’s an argument to be made that the acres upon acres of private school fields make for good candidates.

But the President of Maret’s BoT thinks we need more of them. They couldn't be more out of touch if they tried.[/quote]

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