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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So only Maret students who are also DC residents should get to use the fields?[/quote]

Anyone can use the fields, when organizations haven't made arrangements for their use.  This is common.  My daughter's Stoddert soccer team has games at Jelleff; you can't use the field when they're playing, either.  [b]The issue here is that many PPs believe that DCPS should have first call on the DPR fields,[/b] and should be able to force DPR to forgo lucrative arrangements that help everyone in DC (without offering similar compensation), because DCPS has failed in its responsibility to provide adequate facilities for its students.

Also, Maret is paying for the upkeep and improvement of the field.  What many of you are saying is that DPR (not DCPS) has to pay for that upkeep and improvement?  DCPS pays for DCPS fields; the arrangement many of you are suggesting would shift that responsibility to DPR.  [/quote]

I mean ... that sounds totally reasonable to me.  DPR and DCPS are two DC taxpayer-funded agencies, so it seems perfectly OK to say that DCPS should have dibs on DPR facilities.  You're trying to make the patently unfair seem fair. [/quote]

+1 Any thread on DCUM that points out unfairness that involves the rich immediately draws them to it and then cue the litany of technical arguments to defend and explain away their lack of morality, fairness or decency. Sure it makes sense for a baseball team to get loaded on a bus and then driven across the city to practice each day. [/quote]

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