interesting: every dcps parent i talk to in person supports rhee

[Anonymous]

Rhee prays that Fenty loses so that she can take a job at a Think Tank and fill us with her voluminous knowledge of teaching all from that three years she spent in the classroom eating bees and taping kids mouth shut.

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First of all, not all of the teachers that have been let go are ineffective.

Good. So then you are cool about your kid getting one of those teachers? It's a slippery slope, my friend. It's nice to sound all liberal, but when the sh*t lands in your own backyard, it's not so great after all.Oh, and you ought to also be cool with a heightened racial division, because you know, that's been a stronghold in Gray's campaign.

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dcpsparent : ---
"re: Michelle Rhee's "mom friendly" comment, prepared specifically for the Oprah show, about moms not tolerating mediocre teachers being given time to grow and develop professionally. Well. The unqualified, needing-to-grow-professionally, TFA principal that Rhee PUSHED on our school, despite protests from a panel of engaged, informed, truly progressive, professional educators and parents with advanced degrees in education . . . . . (this TFA principal) hired and protected even more inexperienced, unqualified teachers who will take YEARS to develop into true professionals. But the principal and those teachers all know how to say "yes" to their boss. Too bad they don't know the basics of how children learn, or the nuances of curriculum and instruction. It is hard, hard work indeed to have to reprogram my kids every day after school, to get them to embrace and understand learning again. Rhee's influential, BAD decisions and practices, more than ANY OTHER failure of the DC Public School system, has me on the verge of pulling my kids out of school. Rhee embarrassed herself mightily at the DC screening of this film ("Waiting for Wall Street Super-scammers") -- with her comment insulting DC voters. My kids, and the 350 others in their school, will not be devastated at all when she leaves. We assume she will head to the business world for which she may have more appropriate skills."

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[Anonymous]

PP: "We assume she will head to the business world for which she may have more appropriate skills." I am dying to know what corporation would want her. As a former corporate lawyer and business person, I don't know this brand of business person.

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TIME Magazine is astonished that DC isn't giving Rhee more credit when TIME was the magazine that published the article that confirmed she was rude, insensitive, disrespectful and more, even criticizing her daughters' own teachers? (I know one of them and she was furious.) Too much!

Oprah, I wish you'd been at my child's school when Rhee fired the principal! What about Hardy? Come check it out, fawning national media!

[Anonymous]

OP, maybe you should try talking to a wider variety of people.