Reply to Sports at Walls (WaPo article)

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Sports at Walls (WaPo article)"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can't believe there's no mention of Jelleff in this story. It's walkable from Walls. [/quote]

I don’t think there’s a baseball field there, so it might not have seemed relevant to the story. But I agree that it should have been referenced as an example of DCPS priorities and precedents.[/quote]

Maret paid to significantly upgrade Jellef and turn it into a multi-use field space.  I don’t disagree that DC should have done this on their own…but for whatever reason they didn’t have the vision or interest at the time.

It is confusing why Jellef keeps getting mentioned…the field is 2 miles away in Georgetown…it is not much closer than Banneker and not accessible via metro (probably a couple buses).  Maret is creating a new multi-field site with a regulation-sized baseball field because Jellef can’t be used for varsity games (RF is only like 220 feet out while LF is like 400 because it’s a giant rectangle).

Absolutely there's a baseball field at Jelleff.  That's why Maret squatted on the property.[/quote][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics