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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are DCPS students “shafted” again?  It’s basically the fault of lazy, incompetent school system administrators who are more interested in scoring more “free stuff” and perks, rather than focusing on building one of the best public school systems.[/quote]

Huh? Are you a bot? The only one scoring free stuff is Maret who has a sweetheart deal paying less than 100k/year for exclusive access to one of DC’s few public playing fields in that area while poor DC resident kids get stuck using a basement to spend their afterschool hours.[/quote]

Ha!  Half of the “poor DC resident kids” are probably PG residents whose parents sneak them into DCPS and aftercare programs for their convenience.  In many cases the cheating parents even “work” for the DC government.  Talk about “free stuff” - except, of course, to the DC taxpayers who foot the bill for such fraud.[/quote]

Any evidence that the kids at the Boys and Girls club at Jelleff are non-residents? Or are you just a Maret parent spewing lies because you can’t defend your own behavior.[/quote]

Do public funded or subsidized rec programs check residency?  I doubt it.  The public schools do a pretty poor job of it.[/quote]

You are doing a poor job of defending poor behavior by Maret where a significant number of students are known to be non-residents. While the historic designation limits building on the Maret campus (gosh, I wonder why Maret sought out that des ignation, hm?$), there is nothing stopping Maret from finding and buying a parcel and building their own field. [/quote]

Keep in mind that Maret used to have a baseball field. They made the choice to build a building there. [/quote]

+1.  Maret has champagne tastes with a beer budget.  They don’t seem to be able to put up the money for a field like every other private in this area does.  DC doesn’t need to provide welfare to a private school, even if Jack Evans kid did go there.[/quote]

:roll: Yes paying for a fields development and upkeep is welfare.  [/quote]

Maret will be paying less than 100k/year to use a piece of land that DC paid 15 million dollars a year to buy.  If Maret is so sure it’s paying a fair market rate for the field, why did it push to get a no-bid contract for the field? [/quote]

So when you rent an apartment that cost the owner $1 million to buy or build, do you rent if for $1 million per year?  DC bought a capital asset that it intends to own and operate for a very long time horizon.  Maret then paid for improvements and maintenance.  One can debate whether the Market rent should be higher, but citing the purchase price for real estate in expensive Georgetown is a silly comparison.[/quote]

No, you don't rent it for the purchase price BUT you do rent it out for at least the monthly mortgage price.  In this case, the financing cost was 5% ($750,000 per year) and Maret has come no where near paying that much.  What makes this situation even worse is that DC never had full rights to the property.  To use your analogy, we purchased an investment property and immediately rented it out for a gigantic loss!  If this was a private transaction the IRS would be all over it investigating everyone involved for money laundering.[/quote]

This.  I hope the Maret deal becomes part of the various investigations into the corrupt activities of Jack Evans.[/quote]

The public integrity section of the FBI will certainly be busy, what with Evans, the Ellington cost overruns and kickback scandal, Bowser's unexplained favors to cronies and developers, etc.  The list goes on.[/quote]

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