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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]Maret takes the field five days per week after school for the prime after school hours during the prime fall and spring athletic seasons - because, as their leadership says, the Maret students really need to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner and homework. These are the hours the BGCGW members are in the after-school program so those kids don’t get any access to the field. This occurs even if Maret doesn’t use the field. It sits empty on those afternoons. So this is a de facto monopoly of the entire space during the only time that others could use it and Maret refuses to share the space despite there being ten other interested parties. Maret doesn’t want to share even it is not using the space. What terrible example are they setting for their students?  What sorts of values are the kids there learning?[/quote]

One thing we can conclude is that even the top of the class at Hardy, if their parents are thinking of private school for high school, had better think of some other school that Maret.  Hardy will be a scarlet letter with the Maret admissions director.[/quote]

Hardy parents are unlikely to want to expose their children to Maret Values. [/quote]

Right? Maret STILL doesn’t get what a PR disaster this is. One thing I’ve learned from this thread is that Maret isn’t the only school out there with sweetheart deals in DC. Just the only one willing to egg on bad impressions on this very easily searchable website! Google Maret right now — after their own website, a bunch of articles about their “special access” to a public field pop up. Terrible, terrible impressions for anyone looking for private school.[/quote]

Exactly.  Everyone is wondering what is wrong with Maret’s finances such that they prefer a shady low cost deal that gets them raked through the coals rather than a market priced field.[/quote]

So it’s pretty clear that there is one individual, or several, whose mission is not to advance the interests of Hardy students or some group of supposedly poor kids locked in the Jelleff basement during sports season, but rather to cause Maret harm out of some personal animus.[/quote]

And how have you reached this conclusion against evidence to the contrary?  Perhaps you could visit their website or even drop by Jelleff? It might do you some good to get out for a bit and see the real world. [/quote]

+1. I don’t care two figs about Maret.  But Maret’s actions in taking public resources that should be public are deplorable.  Not sure why the Maret PR person is trying to personalize this fight.  We would criticize any public school that acted like Maret.  But only Maret is behaving poorly in this scenario. [/quote]

This.  With all the many PR executives and journalists on Maret's board, you think they would be better at reading public opinion and realizing how far Maret has fallen in their reputation with the DC public due to their shady dealings and inability to pay a market price for land that meets the needs of their student body.[/quote]

Most people don't care.  Or if they do, they're grateful that Maret put in a turf field and other improvements when DC was wasting money on other things.  Maret's limited practice time isn't relevant to most kids who use Jelleff at other times.  And their kids benefit for free from the money that Maret has spent.    [/quote]

That’s your opinion, and not a particularly well-founded one.  The thousands of DC residents who signed the petition requesting that public parks be public and the hundreds of community members who attended meetings to ask for public school student accesss to a public park that should be public in any functioning governance structure would suggest otherwise. [/quote]

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