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Do you realize Jelleff is not a DCPS facility? Its a DPR. The mission statement for DPR is not to provide DCPS recreation facilities. DPR already priorities use of facilities for DC residents through a fee structure. If Hardy is going to take over Jelleff, the school system should pay for improvements and maintenance for the facility out of Hardy’s budget.

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Do you realize that Hardy teams now play and practice at DPR fields? Jelleff just happens to be across the street instead of across the city. [/quote]

Why doesn't Hardy just use Ellington field?  I drive by it a lot and never see anyone playing on it much during school days or after school.  It's a short walk away, and then you wouldn't have to whine about poor Hardy for 165+ pages.[/quote]

That's what the city is trying to do now -- shift management of the Ellington field to DPR from DCPS, and it would be used by Hardy and Ellington, and the rest of the community. However, the idea has run into vocal objections from Burleith neighbors who say that if it is used for recreation by sports leagues and the like (when it isn't being used by one of the schools) it would bring too many cars to their streets. So the proposal is stalled.[/quote]

So then keep it within the schools rather than opening it to DPR groups, and shift it from Ellington to Hardy or keep it with Ellington but with a simple MOU for Hardy.  This isn't rocket science.  It would serve Hardy, it doesn't seem like Ellington is using it much, and it keeps peace with the neighborhood.[/quote]

Jelleff is just a much better field. To bring Ellington up to Jelleff's level would cost millions of dollars. Far more than what Maret is paying to use Jelleff -- which is why this is outrageous.

I'll posit that a fairer deal would have been to say to Maret, thank you for what you did in 2009, but your ten years are up. If you'd like another ten years, let's do the same deal again but at Ellington this time. [/quote]

If the Hardy parents want a brand new best in class field so much, then raise funds for it - or lobby DCPS for it.  Either way, it might require a little effort and industriousness.  [/quote]

Where does access to a public park by public schools require  industriousness while for private school it just requires a bribe to Dc councilman/Maret parent/soon to be felon Jack Evans?[/quote]

So there is no access to a public park for public school kids? Sure. My kids play there all the time. The indoor basketball courts are alway full. The field is in constant demand from youth and adult sports league(soccer, lacrosse, etc). Hardy is a middle school. How many of the 375 students play an outdoor school team sport that require use of a field? Why can’t the few students who want to do school team sports use the Duke Ellington’s unused field? why can’t anyone use the DE Field? it is always empty and no one can reserve it for use.

The public education budget for DC is 2.3 billion. DC DPR has a budget of 56 million. Stop tying to steal facilities from the underfunded DPR. Hardy has an outside play area that includes tennis courts. If Hardy needs more take it out of the 2.3 billion, not out of DPR’s 56 million. [/quote]

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