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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on.  Stop drinking the DCLS Kool-Aid.  Selfish, lazy staff are a chronic problem.  To be sure there are some good, even a few outstanding, teachers.  But a lot of them would never give up their free parking so they students have a place on school property to play.[/quote]

This has ... what to do with Maret and now other private schools locking in a sweetheart deal on a public soccer field?[/quote]

+1 As someone mentioned up thread, if Maret wanted to live the values it claims to espouse, it could dig up its parking lot and put it underground as Sidwell did and have room for a regulation size playing field.  But they have decided it’s better that they mooch off DC taxpayers.
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DC taxpayers have been paying for Bowser’s friends to live large off of no-bid DC contracts (with no results) in their PG mini-mansions.  Meanwhile the Maret community has footed the cost of actual physical infrastructure improvements at Jelleff.  Your kids benefit from those improvements paid for by Maret.  If there are moochers in this equation, they are not from Maret.[/quote]

Once again...

Maret uses the land for free.

DC can afford the improvements too.

My kids don’t benefit from Maret’s improvements; the handful of times they have been on the field, it was non-prime hours when other fields were available.

Bowser being shady does not make Maret’s (also no-bid) deal less corrupt.

Next?

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+1. I find it shocking that the primary defense Maret seems to use is that DC is so corrupt that their little piece of corruption means nothing.  Who wants people with that type of morality educating their children? (And who is dim enough to pay $40k/year for amoral instruction?)[/quote]

And let it be known that Maret is sucking off the taxpayer teat because not only are they paying a ridiculously low price for Jelleff, they also don’t pay property taxes as a nonprofit organization (albeit a wealthy nonprofit that pays its head of school 400k/year which is 4x more than it will pay the DC govt to use Jelleff.)[/quote]

And Maret effectively frees up coveted places in good Upper Northwest schools that would otherwise be filled by Maret kids.  This way, you can get an out of bounds seat for your child  in one of those schools instead of being stuck in some Mediocre to failing public school in your neighborhood.  And even though their kids are not using the public schools, Maret parents in DC still pay through the nose in taxes to support DCPS, one of the best-funded school systems on a per capita student basis in the nation.  (Hoe much of that money actually reaches the classroom, as opposed to being sucked away through waste, fraud and ineptitude is a different issue.)  And parents obviously pay Maret tuition on top of that.  So don’t begrudge a tax break for Maret and other nonprofits.  By the way, nonprofits are a huge employment sector in the District.[/quote]

Oh please.  40% of Maret kids are from VA or MD yet DC taxpayers are subsidizing the property tax break that makes their private school tuition cheaper, not to mention gifting them the public park that enables Maret to avoid doing capital improvements that every other dC private has had to do.  Maret takes far more from DC in the form of tax revenues foregone for a valuable piece of land than it gives back to the community. [/quote]

As a 501c3, Maret is exempt from property tax. https://otr.cfo.dc.gov/publication/exemption-dc-real-property-tax[/quote]

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