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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.  The issue here is that many PPs believe that DCPS should have first call on the DPR fields, 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]

Your argument is that DPR is responsible to all DC residents, not just DCPS students. So the non-DC residents at Maret should not have the same access as the DC residents at Maret. [/quote]

That's silly.  Maret is a DC entity.  It has rented the fields.  That's enough.

Stoddert has teams from Maryland - by this logic, and I'm being generous using that term, those teams shouldn't be permitted to practice or play on DPR (or DCPS) facilities.  [/quote]

No, Maret is a private school that has been allowed to purchase public facilities and block the public out of them, apparently completely. That's unacceptable in a city with scarce public space.  Green space should go #1 to the public schools and open recreation leagues.  [/quote]

Purchase?  No.  Block the public out completely?  Again, no.  They rented the fields for 10 hours a week, or so.

It's your position that all public schools (and I assume this includes charters?) have first crack at all DPR space?  And after that, "open" rec leagues?

OK, I guess.  those rec leagues have to pay to rent the space.  [b]Should DCPS?[/b]
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Sure.  The DC government can pay the DC government for use of the DC government’s field.  Works for me.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work for DCPS, though.

It isn't all just one pot of money.  I don't know, of course, but [b]I'd bet that DCPS would strongly object to the notion that they have to pay market-rate rent to DPR for Jelleff.[/b]  [/quote]

This absurdity has only been introduced because DC decided to create a market by renting Jelleff field out in the first place.  What we DC taxpayers are saying is that PUBLIC fields are NOT part of the private marketplace.  They should be allocated for the public good - which in this case, is quite obviously giving Hardy the priority.  [/quote]

Oh, so you don't think DPR facilities should be rented out *at all.*  Again, what about Stoddert soccer - one of the largest youth rec leagues in the country?  It is not affiliated with DCPS, and includes non-DC residents.  DPR shouldn't rent to them, either?

What about a church with Maryland parishioners that wants to rent a field for a picnic - DPR shouldn't rent space to them either?

Surely you can see how unworkable this is . . . [/quote]

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