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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm still trying to understand why teachers in an URBAN school district should have on-site parking.

What is it about the teaching profession that makes so many of us reflexively say, sure, teachers should be able to drive to work and park steps aways from their desk — for free?   I personally suspect it has everything to do with the fact that they're with our Precious, Precious Offspring all day.

The equally hard-working respiratory therapists at Georgetown or GW Hospital who saved your dad's life last year when he had pneumonia don't have free on-site parking (and they're at work so much later in the day than a teacher, and earlier, too).  The administrative assistants at all the do-good nonprofits in the District don't get free garage parking, though they make less than teachers.

Then there's the tens of thousands of less "noble," higher-paid professionals working in the District M-F who don't get free on-site parking, either.

Explain in rational terms why teachers can't take public transportation (or pay to park in nearby garages, if available) like everyone else in DC?[/quote]

You mean the way that teachers at Ellington, Janney and Murch do?[/quote]

Ellington is politically untouchable in DC.  Murch and Janney have a far higher percentage of Ward 3 kids - meaning more parents who are Ward 3 voters - than at John Eaton.  That's why Mary Cheh expends political capital on those school communities, but not much effort for Eaton.  [/quote]

Ha, if you actually knew the details of the decades-long fight for the Murch renovation, you'd know that Cheh did jack shit when Bowser played her little obnoxious games. It wasn't until the Murch kids did that video and people started to notice that Cheh did anything. Keeping in mind that CHEH'S KIDS WENT TO MURCH and she still didn't care.

Hell, Grosso did more and he'd sooner see Ward 3 be entirely taken over by eminent domain than help out anyone who lives there.[/quote]

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