Anonymous wrote:Can someone give a brief description of the event that occurred without commentary?
Anonymous wrote:Having had to try to field many PPA soccer and outdoor basketball teams for my three kids I will be the first to say it: DC Parks and Rec is ridiculous.
Permits come in at the last second; They deny permits with no reason; They deny permits on perfectly good, usable fields all the time; They don't work with teams that have various early dismissal times or nearby schools.
Bethesda and Arlington fields do not have these chronic permit issues.
I don't care about Maret taking over some field that was only willy nilly permitted half of each year. Most of DC fields, including in NW DC are vastly underutilized, despite the permit demand and paperwork being filed.
With my youngest child, PPA and I started applying to FOUR+ different NW DC fields in the hopes of getting a permit for Wed or Friday after school. Denied, denied, denied, Maybe. And we'd go by our 1st or 2nd choice field weeks in to the season - totally empty. Not getting reseeded either. Totally empty.
That's the big picture here.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The metaphor of DCPS kids looking at Maret kids on that field is the stuff of college application essays — for both the Maret and DCPS kids. Any private school student who played on that field analyzing his/her privilege in a college essay would have a lot to work with!
And any student at Maret, or at least an IB, who looks at that situation and whines about how they don't have privilege, rather than looking at their position relative the most of the city or the country, or the world, would be showing the colleges who they were and should expect to be rejected.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The metaphor of DCPS kids looking at Maret kids on that field is the stuff of college application essays — for both the Maret and DCPS kids. Any private school student who played on that field analyzing his/her privilege in a college essay would have a lot to work with!
And any student at Hardy, or at least an IB, who looks at that situation and whines about how they don't have privilege, rather than looking at their position relative the most of the city or the country, or the world, would be showing the colleges who they were and should expect to be rejected.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The metaphor of DCPS kids looking at Maret kids on that field is the stuff of college application essays — for both the Maret and DCPS kids. Any private school student who played on that field analyzing his/her privilege in a college essay would have a lot to work with!
And any student at Hardy, or at least an IB, who looks at that situation and whines about how they don't have privilege, rather than looking at their position relative the most of the city or the country, or the world, would be showing the colleges who they were and should expect to be rejected.
Anonymous wrote:The metaphor of DCPS kids looking at Maret kids on that field is the stuff of college application essays — for both the Maret and DCPS kids. Any private school student who played on that field analyzing his/her privilege in a college essay would have a lot to work with!
Anonymous wrote:The metaphor of DCPS kids looking at Maret kids on that field is the stuff of college application essays — for both the Maret and DCPS kids. Any private school student who played on that field analyzing his/her privilege in a college essay would have a lot to work with!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Enough with the virtue-signaling. Get a life.
Are you saying parents have no say? Or parents don’t care? Or shouldn’t care?
Anonymous wrote:Enough with the virtue-signaling. Get a life.