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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You Maret people are all over the place.  “Marion Barry was racist!” “DC teachers have a union and drive cars!”  “Duke Ellington non-DC students too!”

None of that makes your hoarding of public assets less true or less wrong.[/quote]

The Maret extension on Jelleff can be fairly criticized and debated.  But it’s absurd to call Maret parents racists and villains when DC was electing an infamous racist again and again to public office and the public school staff and community are not so selfless and virtuous.
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Just because some people were racist doesn’t mean others aren’t too.

Nonetheless, I don’t think Maret is racist.  But they are extraordinarily elitist and entitled and have zero self-awareness of it.[/quote]

I seriously don't get the attack on the teachers at Hardy. They literally have no voice or involvement in this issue. There is a parking lot - a small parking lot - at Hardy. There is a parking lot at Maret. It is not like the teachers were asked 'please give up your parking for the kids to have a field' - that was never put forward as an option, and they do not have the power or authority to make that an option. It is a DC facilities issue and question. 
And, even so, why would you zero in on picking on them having parking compared to teachers at all other schools - public and private. Seriously, ask the Maret teachers to give up their parking...  
What is behind the charge that Hardy teachers are militant other than some of them stood by a principal who was fired by Michelle Rhee more than a decade ago? [b]There is nothing behind calling them militant at this point other than racism[/b]. Have you met these teachers? They are good and committed public servants who are in a relatively low-paying profession. What is the point of picking on them or even pulling that as an issue into this debate.

On another point, the deal with Maret was NOT made public to give the surrounding community the opportunity to try to raise money to support the rec center and field. That's the point. No one else was given the option or opportunity.

Maret does dominate key afterschool periods of use of the field - it is not 'fairly' or even significantly distributed with other (ie. fair use competition like for other facility use) - and the children at Jelleff's afterschool program are denied the ability to use a field they can look outside and see other kids playing on -- and they have no other options. Maret kids are already being shuffled over to this field from their school location to use a remote field.[/quote]

Teamsters are also called militant.  What does this have to do with race?[/quote]

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