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Anonymous wrote:For those in the neighborhood, the Palisades Citizens' Association will be discussing Jelleff at their monthly Town Hall today (Wednesday) at the Palisades Rec Center from 7pm to 8:30pm. Councilmember Robert White will also be in attendance.

Resolution opposing the extension passed easily.

Anonymous wrote:For those in the neighborhood, the Palisades Citizens' Association will be discussing Jelleff at their monthly Town Hall today (Wednesday) at the Palisades Rec Center from 7pm to 8:30pm. Councilmember Robert White will also be in attendance.

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Anonymous wrote:Maret parents paid a lot of money to fix the Jelleff field and in exchange they want some reserved practice hours. What’s unreasonable about that? What exactly have Hardy parents done, except to demonize Maret and make a practice field into some kind of polarizing “social justice” issue. If Hardy parents really want to do something, they should roll up their sleeves and try to make Hardy as good as Deal and demand more accountability from DCPS administrators — or stop making lame excuses for second-tier mediocrity.

It’s fascinating how a group of people can go on about what great and wonderful community members they are while being selfish, smug, and aggrieved.

The collective lack of self-awareness is mind-boggling.

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The Maret crowd has damaged its reputation immeasurably. Unbelievably myopic and clueless.

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Maret got an unbeleivable below-cost (did not even cover the cost of interest on the loan to pay for the property) back-room deal. It wants to extend that deal also in the back room. The DCPS and city resident stakeholders are shining a light on the shady deal and the Maret response is irrelevant to the issue at hand, access for public school kids and public school kids in aftercare to to city resources that are required to prioritize DCPS needs. But go ahead, point your finger away from the issue to distract, it is a known and effective political tactic. But it has nothing to do with the truth.

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Anonymous wrote:For those in the neighborhood, the Palisades Citizens' Association will be discussing Jelleff at their monthly Town Hall today (Wednesday) at the Palisades Rec Center from 7pm to 8:30pm. Councilmember Robert White will also be in attendance.

Today, *Tuesday*, Nov. 5

Anonymous wrote:For those in the neighborhood, the Palisades Citizens' Association will be discussing Jelleff at their monthly Town Hall today (Wednesday) at the Palisades Rec Center from 7pm to 8:30pm. Councilmember Robert White will also be in attendance.

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Anonymous wrote:Maret parents paid a lot of money to fix the Jelleff field and in exchange they want some reserved practice hours. What’s unreasonable about that? What exactly have Hardy parents done, except to demonize Maret and make a practice field into some kind of polarizing “social justice” issue. If Hardy parents really want to do something, they should roll up their sleeves and try to make Hardy as good as Deal and demand more accountability from DCPS administrators — or stop making lame excuses for second-tier mediocrity.

It’s fascinating how a group of people can go on about what great and wonderful community members they are while being selfish, smug, and aggrieved.

The collective lack of self-awareness is mind-boggling.

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The Maret crowd has damaged its reputation immeasurably. Unbelievably myopic and clueless.

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Anonymous wrote:Maret parents paid a lot of money to fix the Jelleff field and in exchange they want some reserved practice hours. What’s unreasonable about that? What exactly have Hardy parents done, except to demonize Maret and make a practice field into some kind of polarizing “social justice” issue. If Hardy parents really want to do something, they should roll up their sleeves and try to make Hardy as good as Deal and demand more accountability from DCPS administrators — or stop making lame excuses for second-tier mediocrity.

It’s fascinating how a group of people can go on about what great and wonderful community members they are while being selfish, smug, and aggrieved.

The collective lack of self-awareness is mind-boggling.

Anonymous wrote:Maret parents paid a lot of money to fix the Jelleff field and in exchange they want some reserved practice hours. What’s unreasonable about that? What exactly have Hardy parents done, except to demonize Maret and make a practice field into some kind of polarizing “social justice” issue. If Hardy parents really want to do something, they should roll up their sleeves and try to make Hardy as good as Deal and demand more accountability from DCPS administrators — or stop making lame excuses for second-tier mediocrity.

Anonymous wrote:Maret parents paid a lot of money to fix the Jelleff field and in exchange they want some reserved practice hours. What’s unreasonable about that? What exactly have Hardy parents done, except to demonize Maret and make a practice field into some kind of polarizing “social justice” issue. If Hardy parents really want to do something, they should roll up their sleeves and try to make Hardy as good as Deal and demand more accountability from DCPS administrators — or stop making lame excuses for second-tier mediocrity.

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t Hardy have the right to use the nearby DCPS field (Ellington field). Why is Hardy barred from it?

Shouldn't Hardy have the right to use the nearby DPR field instead of driving halfway across the city to use other DPR fields?

The only sport traveling to practice across town is baseball. They should be practicing up the street in glover park. The fall soccer teams practice for one hour three days a week and play home games at deal. So overblown that kids are traveling all over the city. True they are traveling to “away” games which are in other parts of the city.

Wrong. Hardy soccer practices at a field 1 hour away by public transport.

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t Hardy have the right to use the nearby DCPS field (Ellington field). Why is Hardy barred from it?

Shouldn't Hardy have the right to use the nearby DPR field instead of driving halfway across the city to use other DPR fields?

The only sport traveling to practice across town is baseball. They should be practicing up the street in glover park. The fall soccer teams practice for one hour three days a week and play home games at deal. So overblown that kids are traveling all over the city. True they are traveling to “away” games which are in other parts of the city.

Hardy is not the problem. Maret taking Jelleff field during after school hours is the problem. If hardy did all the things Maret supporters want — plow under their parking, use Ellington, stop complaining — there are plenty of other DC public schools and after school programs that could use that field.

+1. It’s so strange how Maret supports have an extensive list of what Hardy and others should be doing differently, yet Maret is the only one doing something egregiously unethical in this scenario.

+1. The Maret jelleff original 2010 deal was controversial and called a sweetheart deal by some. You would think that a school that receives $50k/year in tuition and has ample money to spend could have found a more publicly palatable option in the last decade for its playing field than a second backroom deal to secure a public park.

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I love how it’s gone from $45,000 to $50,000 tuition when it’s actually $39,000. And Hardy is the problem, along with DCPS if they didn’t actually plan for space for expanded enrollment and athletics. Use the Ellington DCPS field (Ellington doesn’t use it and it hasn’t been turned over to DPR). And then demand accountability of your public schools and how they are run. Don’t blame others for DCPS mismanagement. Blame DCPS.

Again — if Hardy finds a solution, there are other elementary schools and after school programs lined up waiting. DPR has a formula for allocating public space, and Maret doesn’t rank in that formula — except for the back room deal. DCPS *should* have planned to use Jelleff field after the first easement expired. How were they to know Maret planned to circumvent the public process?

Probably because DPR paid some shell 8a contractor $5 million to write bespoke field scheduling software and it still doesn’t work!

The software, while crude, works, in that it schedules the fields the way DPR wants them scheduled. The problem isn't with the software, it's with the decisions that DPR makes.