Dear Neighbors,
Dunbar High School has reached out to us to see if there may be any neighborhs with available parking spaces for some of Dunbar’s Faculty to use during the day. Some neighbors have in good gesture offered their extra spot to some of educators.
If you know or have a space available, please contact Principal Jackson at (202) 480-0841.
Bates Area Civic Association 
I’d love to know if any of these teachers have considered using Metro to get to work, or carpooling, or any of the several bus lines that serve the area. Teaching public school is commendable, but it doesn’t grant you free parking, in a jurisdiction in which you pay no taxes. Dunbar is an urban high school. It’s in a city. You can’t expect to park anywhere you please for free in a city. Public space is too valuable for that. And if there are no parking spots, you have to chose a better mode of transportation, and luckily those choices exist in the DC metro. I really have little sympathy for these teachers. Perhaps they could be allowed to purchase parking passes like everyone else in DC. That would be fair.
Johnny you sound bitter and uptight. Maybe you can learn to relax some. Asking for a few parking spots is not the end of the world. And these teachers are underpaid. Have some empathy.
Most likely this is a set-up to allow Kent B. Amos, a politically connected businessman, to step forward and oh-so-generously offer his illegal MBC parking lot for Dunbar to use on weekdays. He and his cronies probably think such a transparent move would lend the illegal parking lot a shred of legitimacy.
I think that DC government employees get a metro transportation subsidy of over $100 a month toward using public transportation.
The Atlantic Cities just wrote on this exact topic. So, do we want to be Mesa, Arizona? or Washington, DC? http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/10/how-much-parking-does-high-school-really-need/7082/
Recommendations from the neighborhood residents at community meetings in the area 1. The Dunbar Administration should make the 55 parking spaces in the building a first priority for their teachers, 2. provide a shuttle to pick the teachers up at Union Station(10 blocks from school) and the NOMA Station(3 blocks from school), 3. leave their cars at home and take public transportation, 4. negotiate space with the surrounding neighbors 5. pay for parking at near by lots. The Green Building represents utilizing green ideas for less smog and traffic to our neighborhood. The majority of the residents were vehemently opposed to more traffic and taking premium curb side parking on the surrounding blocks near Dunbar.