Elementary Students from Key Taken to Hospital After Eating Edibles at School

[Anonymous]

Dr Landeryou has got to go. His cluelessness and lack of any leadership have continued for too long. It’s not a wonderful school. Mann is a wonderful school. Janney May be a wonderful school. Key is a backward school with a do nothing principal running a school with stuck in the 50s type of mindset and outdated approaches to education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dr Landeryou has got to go. His cluelessness and lack of any leadership have continued for too long. It’s not a wonderful school. Mann is a wonderful school. Janney May be a wonderful school. Key is a backward school with a do nothing principal running a school with stuck in the 50s type of mindset and outdated approaches to education.

Could you please expand on this? I am seriously considering Key and would really like to get as much information and perspectives as possible. Of course this incident is concerning and even though rational thinking tells you, it likely could’ve happened at any school, it’s hard not to let it cloud your thinking a little bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr Landeryou has got to go. His cluelessness and lack of any leadership have continued for too long. It’s not a wonderful school. Mann is a wonderful school. Janney May be a wonderful school. Key is a backward school with a do nothing principal running a school with stuck in the 50s type of mindset and outdated approaches to education.

Could you please expand on this? I am seriously considering Key and would really like to get as much information and perspectives as possible. Of course this incident is concerning and even though rational thinking tells you, it likely could’ve happened at any school, it’s hard not to let it cloud your thinking a little bit.

I’m a parent of 2 kids at Key. The school is great. Mostly wonderful teachers, great extracurriculars, right amount of homework, and wonderful community. The person juxtaposing it to Mann and Janney sounds bitter and as if they have had a personal issue with Key principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr Landeryou has got to go. His cluelessness and lack of any leadership have continued for too long. It’s not a wonderful school. Mann is a wonderful school. Janney May be a wonderful school. Key is a backward school with a do nothing principal running a school with stuck in the 50s type of mindset and outdated approaches to education.

Could you please expand on this? I am seriously considering Key and would really like to get as much information and perspectives as possible. Of course this incident is concerning and even though rational thinking tells you, it likely could’ve happened at any school, it’s hard not to let it cloud your thinking a little bit.

I’m a parent of 2 kids at Key. The school is great. Mostly wonderful teachers, great extracurriculars, right amount of homework, and wonderful community. The person juxtaposing it to Mann and Janney sounds bitter and as if they have had a personal issue with Key principal.

I read somewhere on DCUM (funny statement, I know) that Key has a “nanny culture,” implying fewer parents picking up children/getting to know each other. Is this true??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr Landeryou has got to go. His cluelessness and lack of any leadership have continued for too long. It’s not a wonderful school. Mann is a wonderful school. Janney May be a wonderful school. Key is a backward school with a do nothing principal running a school with stuck in the 50s type of mindset and outdated approaches to education.

Could you please expand on this? I am seriously considering Key and would really like to get as much information and perspectives as possible. Of course this incident is concerning and even though rational thinking tells you, it likely could’ve happened at any school, it’s hard not to let it cloud your thinking a little bit.

That principal and the asst principal were cited for a months long racist incident too - where dcps investigators concluded it was a hate crime - - but it was before BLM.

They also treat the 4th and 5th graders as second class students - after around half the families leave after 3rd grade. Coincidence that much higher %s of the 4th and 5th graders a diverse. The principal is notorious for catering to the parents who run and give more at the auction.

There are lots of non fans of the administration and lack of any innovation at Key.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr Landeryou has got to go. His cluelessness and lack of any leadership have continued for too long. It’s not a wonderful school. Mann is a wonderful school. Janney May be a wonderful school. Key is a backward school with a do nothing principal running a school with stuck in the 50s type of mindset and outdated approaches to education.

Could you please expand on this? I am seriously considering Key and would really like to get as much information and perspectives as possible. Of course this incident is concerning and even though rational thinking tells you, it likely could’ve happened at any school, it’s hard not to let it cloud your thinking a little bit.

That principal and the asst principal were cited for a months long racist incident too - where dcps investigators concluded it was a hate crime - - but it was before BLM.

They also treat the 4th and 5th graders as second class students - after around half the families leave after 3rd grade. Coincidence that much higher %s of the 4th and 5th graders a diverse. The principal is notorious for catering to the parents who run and give more at the auction.

There are lots of non fans of the administration and lack of any innovation at Key.

I have a kid in 4th great at Key. I’d say 90% of kids moved from 3d to 4th. I’ve read the same rhetoric about kids leaving after 3d grade 5 years ago, I think it’s very outdated.
Can you please elaborate on “lack on innovation”? Homework not being canceled? Writing on paper?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr Landeryou has got to go. His cluelessness and lack of any leadership have continued for too long. It’s not a wonderful school. Mann is a wonderful school. Janney May be a wonderful school. Key is a backward school with a do nothing principal running a school with stuck in the 50s type of mindset and outdated approaches to education.

Could you please expand on this? I am seriously considering Key and would really like to get as much information and perspectives as possible. Of course this incident is concerning and even though rational thinking tells you, it likely could’ve happened at any school, it’s hard not to let it cloud your thinking a little bit.

That principal and the asst principal were cited for a months long racist incident too - where dcps investigators concluded it was a hate crime - - but it was before BLM.

They also treat the 4th and 5th graders as second class students - after around half the families leave after 3rd grade. Coincidence that much higher %s of the 4th and 5th graders a diverse. The principal is notorious for catering to the parents who run and give more at the auction.

There are lots of non fans of the administration and lack of any innovation at Key.

Hadn’t looked in a while - but Keys overall enrollment is down to 319 - it had been over 400 before the pandemic - so the bigger issue is huge overall drop (so either a baby bust in the area which doesn’t actually meet the demo trends or families peeling off from the pandemic for other options or just going private from the get go) and then ever still the 5th grade cohort is down to 35 kids.
https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/DCPS-SY21-22-Enrollment-Audit.xlsx

Innovations going on but not many at key: https://globaled.gse.harvard.edu/21st-century-education

I have a kid in 4th great at Key. I’d say 90% of kids moved from 3d to 4th. I’ve read the same rhetoric about kids leaving after 3d grade 5 years ago, I think it’s very outdated.
Can you please elaborate on “lack on innovation”? Homework not being canceled? Writing on paper?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr Landeryou has got to go. His cluelessness and lack of any leadership have continued for too long. It’s not a wonderful school. Mann is a wonderful school. Janney May be a wonderful school. Key is a backward school with a do nothing principal running a school with stuck in the 50s type of mindset and outdated approaches to education.

Could you please expand on this? I am seriously considering Key and would really like to get as much information and perspectives as possible. Of course this incident is concerning and even though rational thinking tells you, it likely could’ve happened at any school, it’s hard not to let it cloud your thinking a little bit.

That principal and the asst principal were cited for a months long racist incident too - where dcps investigators concluded it was a hate crime - - but it was before BLM.

They also treat the 4th and 5th graders as second class students - after around half the families leave after 3rd grade. Coincidence that much higher %s of the 4th and 5th graders a diverse. The principal is notorious for catering to the parents who run and give more at the auction.

There are lots of non fans of the administration and lack of any innovation at Key.

DP. I have been involved in supposed bias incident investigations and the DCPS investigators are total jokes. And I seriously doubt it was a “hate crime” - was somebody injured? I would not draw any conclusions about Key based on whatever happened in that episode.

[Anonymous]

wow, people like to be apologists! There were public forums on it. It was a significant set of acts of racism that the the principal and AP handled by never reaching out to the kids who were on the receiving side, and on the other side assured the parents of the biggest instigating kid not to worry about it and then allowed that kid to become school president. It took months to deal with. It ended up with the DCPS officials issuing public apologies and statements about the hate incidents... It was significant and tore the community apart for a period of time. It is also likely why Landeryou will never leave - after what went down he'll never get another job in today's environments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr Landeryou has got to go. His cluelessness and lack of any leadership have continued for too long. It’s not a wonderful school. Mann is a wonderful school. Janney May be a wonderful school. Key is a backward school with a do nothing principal running a school with stuck in the 50s type of mindset and outdated approaches to education.

Could you please expand on this? I am seriously considering Key and would really like to get as much information and perspectives as possible. Of course this incident is concerning and even though rational thinking tells you, it likely could’ve happened at any school, it’s hard not to let it cloud your thinking a little bit.

As a former Key parent, I will say that Janney is EXCELLENT in comparison. Student body size in this case doesn't matter. All of my kids classes at Janney have been markedly smaller than at Key. We also some really bad teachers (K in partic). While I haven't meshed with the teachers at Janney, they are excellent at what they do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr Landeryou has got to go. His cluelessness and lack of any leadership have continued for too long. It’s not a wonderful school. Mann is a wonderful school. Janney May be a wonderful school. Key is a backward school with a do nothing principal running a school with stuck in the 50s type of mindset and outdated approaches to education.

Could you please expand on this? I am seriously considering Key and would really like to get as much information and perspectives as possible. Of course this incident is concerning and even though rational thinking tells you, it likely could’ve happened at any school, it’s hard not to let it cloud your thinking a little bit.

That principal and the asst principal were cited for a months long racist incident too - where dcps investigators concluded it was a hate crime - - but it was before BLM.

They also treat the 4th and 5th graders as second class students - after around half the families leave after 3rd grade. Coincidence that much higher %s of the 4th and 5th graders a diverse. The principal is notorious for catering to the parents who run and give more at the auction.

There are lots of non fans of the administration and lack of any innovation at Key.

Hadn’t looked in a while - but Keys overall enrollment is down to 319 - it had been over 400 before the pandemic - so the bigger issue is huge overall drop (so either a baby bust in the area which doesn’t actually meet the demo trends or families peeling off from the pandemic for other options or just going private from the get go) and then ever still the 5th grade cohort is down to 35 kids.
https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/DCPS-SY21-22-Enrollment-Audit.xlsx

Innovations going on but not many at key: https://globaled.gse.harvard.edu/21st-century-education

I have a kid in 4th great at Key. I’d say 90% of kids moved from 3d to 4th. I’ve read the same rhetoric about kids leaving after 3d grade 5 years ago, I think it’s very outdated.
Can you please elaborate on “lack on innovation”? Homework not being canceled? Writing on paper?

Updated numbers would be helpful.
Enrollment is over 350 and currently they have 3 5th grade classes with around 20 kids each - so about 6O 5th graders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wow, people like to be apologists! There were public forums on it. It was a significant set of acts of racism that the the principal and AP handled by never reaching out to the kids who were on the receiving side, and on the other side assured the parents of the biggest instigating kid not to worry about it and then allowed that kid to become school president. It took months to deal with. It ended up with the DCPS officials issuing public apologies and statements about the hate incidents... It was significant and tore the community apart for a period of time. It is also likely why Landeryou will never leave - after what went down he'll never get another job in today's environments.

Based on my experience I seriously doubt what you are saying is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wow, people like to be apologists! There were public forums on it. It was a significant set of acts of racism that the the principal and AP handled by never reaching out to the kids who were on the receiving side, and on the other side assured the parents of the biggest instigating kid not to worry about it and then allowed that kid to become school president. It took months to deal with. It ended up with the DCPS officials issuing public apologies and statements about the hate incidents... It was significant and tore the community apart for a period of time. It is also likely why Landeryou will never leave - after what went down he'll never get another job in today's environments.

Based on my experience I seriously doubt what you are saying is true.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/a-white-child-called-three-black-classmates-a-racial-slur-months-later-the-school-is-struggling-to-move-forward/2019/03/12/2d74fa94-412a-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html

The article is really tame vs the situation. They school was required to have the finding with the situation in detail available to parents. It used to be on the website but they’ve taken it down now.

Landeryou was up for some other positions but had to “de-panel” based on the incident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wow, people like to be apologists! There were public forums on it. It was a significant set of acts of racism that the the principal and AP handled by never reaching out to the kids who were on the receiving side, and on the other side assured the parents of the biggest instigating kid not to worry about it and then allowed that kid to become school president. It took months to deal with. It ended up with the DCPS officials issuing public apologies and statements about the hate incidents... It was significant and tore the community apart for a period of time. It is also likely why Landeryou will never leave - after what went down he'll never get another job in today's environments.

I never liked the "allowed that kid to become school president" line of attack. He was elected by his classmates. Are you staying that student council elections ought to be rigged?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wow, people like to be apologists! There were public forums on it. It was a significant set of acts of racism that the the principal and AP handled by never reaching out to the kids who were on the receiving side, and on the other side assured the parents of the biggest instigating kid not to worry about it and then allowed that kid to become school president. It took months to deal with. It ended up with the DCPS officials issuing public apologies and statements about the hate incidents... It was significant and tore the community apart for a period of time. It is also likely why Landeryou will never leave - after what went down he'll never get another job in today's environments.

I never liked the "allowed that kid to become school president" line of attack. He was elected by his classmates. Are you staying that student council elections ought to be rigged?

OMG - are you for real? For kids who have not met the criteria - including regularly and aggressively calling kids racial slurs, segregating games at recess, engaging in fights - it's the administration's job to apply the required disciplinary actions to not allow kids to participate in student LEADERSHIP (or even other actions).