Is Bowser's goal really to damage and destroy DC public schools?

[Anonymous]

I saw this today and it made me think.

We know that Bowser and politicians in general get a lot of money from school privatizers – from the Walton and DeVos crew, and from the big charter school corporations.
(This is one of the biggest problems with charters. They distort our political process by injecting huge amounts of money into it. In contrast, public school parents don't have big PACs that are donating to politicians that defend them – donating to pro-public-school and pro-democracy politicians.)

If Bowser really wanted to harm public schools, what would she being doing differently?
- She appointed Ferebee, a Chancellor trained by pro-charter Broad, who works hard to deceive parents and keep them in the dark.
- Bowser's team seems not to care about students who are above the median. Once a kid gets a 5 on PARCC they're not Bowser's problem anymore.
- Bowser's school opening plan was the right idea but the implementation was a chaotic farce and its making parents dislike DCPS.
- Now Bowser is appointing another school privatizer to run OSSE.
- DCPS Central Office is a total mess, and not getting better. No vision, no improvement.
- OSSE is a total mess.
- Instead of building two schools in Shaw, a middle school and New Banneker, Bowser chose to divide those communities against each other, trying to get the Banneker people to hate the Shaw middle people and vice versa.

Seriously, if Bowser wanted to hurt DCPS, what could she be doing differently?

Can we get a next mayor who cares about DCPS, please?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I saw this today and it made me think.

We know that Bowser and politicians in general get a lot of money from school privatizers – from the Walton and DeVos crew, and from the big charter school corporations.
(This is one of the biggest problems with charters. They distort our political process by injecting huge amounts of money into it. In contrast, public school parents don't have big PACs that are donating to politicians that defend them – donating to pro-public-school and pro-democracy politicians.)

If Bowser really wanted to harm public schools, what would she being doing differently?
- She appointed Ferebee, a Chancellor trained by pro-charter Broad, who works hard to deceive parents and keep them in the dark.
- Bowser's team seems not to care about students who are above the median. Once a kid gets a 5 on PARCC they're not Bowser's problem anymore.
- Bowser's school opening plan was the right idea but the implementation was a chaotic farce and its making parents dislike DCPS.
- Now Bowser is appointing another school privatizer to run OSSE.
- DCPS Central Office is a total mess, and not getting better. No vision, no improvement.
- OSSE is a total mess.
- Instead of building two schools in Shaw, a middle school and New Banneker, Bowser chose to divide those communities against each other, trying to get the Banneker people to hate the Shaw middle people and vice versa.

Seriously, if Bowser wanted to hurt DCPS, what could she be doing differently?

Can we get a next mayor who cares about DCPS, please?!

Unfortunately, none one has any fuchs to give.

[Anonymous]

Sorry - all this ranting about “privatizers” and moaning about charters has zero credibility anymore. It is teacher union propaganda that has nothing at all to do with what’s best for DC kids. WTU’s antics during covid demostrated that nothing they say/do can be trusted to be in the interests of kids and families. Now I’m sure that charters have their own issues but covid has permanently made me immediately discount anyone ranting about “privatizers.”

Laura Fuchs and her crowd will not.let.go of the political opportunity they perceive covid gave them. They are still all over twitter acting like DCPS is killing kids and teachers by reopening, completely refusing to accept the harm the closures inflicted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I saw this today and it made me think.

We know that Bowser and politicians in general get a lot of money from school privatizers – from the Walton and DeVos crew, and from the big charter school corporations.
(This is one of the biggest problems with charters. They distort our political process by injecting huge amounts of money into it. In contrast, public school parents don't have big PACs that are donating to politicians that defend them – donating to pro-public-school and pro-democracy politicians.)

If Bowser really wanted to harm public schools, what would she being doing differently?
- She appointed Ferebee, a Chancellor trained by pro-charter Broad, who works hard to deceive parents and keep them in the dark.
- Bowser's team seems not to care about students who are above the median. Once a kid gets a 5 on PARCC they're not Bowser's problem anymore.
- Bowser's school opening plan was the right idea but the implementation was a chaotic farce and its making parents dislike DCPS.
- Now Bowser is appointing another school privatizer to run OSSE.
- DCPS Central Office is a total mess, and not getting better. No vision, no improvement.
- OSSE is a total mess.
- Instead of building two schools in Shaw, a middle school and New Banneker, Bowser chose to divide those communities against each other, trying to get the Banneker people to hate the Shaw middle people and vice versa.

Seriously, if Bowser wanted to hurt DCPS, what could she be doing differently?

Can we get a next mayor who cares about DCPS, please?!

This seems like a bunch of unsupported conspiracy thinking. But I've come to see that's pretty common on the DCUM DC schools board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry - all this ranting about “privatizers” and moaning about charters has zero credibility anymore. It is teacher union propaganda that has nothing at all to do with what’s best for DC kids. WTU’s antics during covid demostrated that nothing they say/do can be trusted to be in the interests of kids and families. Now I’m sure that charters have their own issues but covid has permanently made me immediately discount anyone ranting about “privatizers.”

Laura Fuchs and her crowd will not.let.go of the political opportunity they perceive covid gave them. They are still all over twitter acting like DCPS is killing kids and teachers by reopening, completely refusing to accept the harm the closures inflicted.

+10000

she also had the nerve to thank liz Davis during her speech last night, can you imagine being the family of the innocent man she drunkenly murdered and seeing this twitter crowd going all "yassssss queen" about it? ugh, it just makes me sad. do these people have any kindness or empathy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry - all this ranting about “privatizers” and moaning about charters has zero credibility anymore. It is teacher union propaganda that has nothing at all to do with what’s best for DC kids. WTU’s antics during covid demostrated that nothing they say/do can be trusted to be in the interests of kids and families. Now I’m sure that charters have their own issues but covid has permanently made me immediately discount anyone ranting about “privatizers.”

Laura Fuchs and her crowd will not.let.go of the political opportunity they perceive covid gave them. They are still all over twitter acting like DCPS is killing kids and teachers by reopening, completely refusing to accept the harm the closures inflicted.

+10000

she also had the nerve to thank liz Davis during her speech last night, can you imagine being the family of the innocent man she drunkenly murdered and seeing this twitter crowd going all "yassssss queen" about it? ugh, it just makes me sad. do these people have any kindness or empathy?

+ another 10000. Not all of us want to spend our lives in a progressive Twitter bubble.

[Anonymous]

Public schools have failed. It's time to move on.

[Anonymous]

Your argument would have more (or even any) merit if you at least pretended to present an honest assessment of the state of political contributions in DC. The WTU, AFT and similar groups also fund politicians. Your argument also ignores the reality of campaign contribution limits in DC and the % of political contributions that are comprise of education vs non-education related funding.

Public education is an important and serious topic that deserves a full throated and honest debate about policies. It necessarily requires serious people have serious conversations. Please sit down and let the adults talk.

[Anonymous]

Whatever Laura Fuchs is or isn’t and I am not a big fan of hers, she is right that OSSE is a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever Laura Fuchs is or isn’t and I am not a big fan of hers, she is right that OSSE is a joke.

+1

OSSE is an absolute mess and just a bureaucratic waste of public funds.

[Anonymous]

I think Bowser does not give an F about DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry - all this ranting about “privatizers” and moaning about charters has zero credibility anymore. It is teacher union propaganda that has nothing at all to do with what’s best for DC kids. WTU’s antics during covid demostrated that nothing they say/do can be trusted to be in the interests of kids and families. Now I’m sure that charters have their own issues but covid has permanently made me immediately discount anyone ranting about “privatizers.”

Laura Fuchs and her crowd will not.let.go of the political opportunity they perceive covid gave them. They are still all over twitter acting like DCPS is killing kids and teachers by reopening, completely refusing to accept the harm the closures inflicted.

I’m a parent and I oppose privatizers.

Teachers are on my side— teachers teach my kids! Our teachers have been great.

It’s Bowser, Ferebee, and the DeVos/DFER privatizer contingent that harm my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Bowser does not give an F about DCPS.

This is what I worry about.

Really, what more could Bowser have done to hurt DCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry - all this ranting about “privatizers” and moaning about charters has zero credibility anymore. It is teacher union propaganda that has nothing at all to do with what’s best for DC kids. WTU’s antics during covid demostrated that nothing they say/do can be trusted to be in the interests of kids and families. Now I’m sure that charters have their own issues but covid has permanently made me immediately discount anyone ranting about “privatizers.”

Laura Fuchs and her crowd will not.let.go of the political opportunity they perceive covid gave them. They are still all over twitter acting like DCPS is killing kids and teachers by reopening, completely refusing to accept the harm the closures inflicted.

I’m a parent and I oppose privatizers.

Teachers are on my side— teachers teach my kids! Our teachers have been great.

It’s Bowser, Ferebee, and the DeVos/DFER privatizer contingent that harm my kids.

I’m a parent and I oppose political informercials, like this entire artificial thread.

[Anonymous]

An elected Superintendent is the only real way for parents to have a real say. A few jurisdictions still do it that way. The whole appoint the latest supposedly hotshot has failed every where.

Robert White better have a damn plan for schools of he wants to win.