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so if rhee is sending her older kid to deal
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Anonymous
| Isn't Rhee all about hiring the right principals to turn schools around in a year? As I wrote way back, Oyster has, count them: A principal, an AP at lower school, an AP at upper school, a MS coordinator, and two teachers in most classrooms. Teachers and parents are fleeing, more than last year are staying. What's wrong with this picture? Why isn't the current Principal's office (and AP and AP and MS Director and on and on) providing EXPERTISE? Heck, they don't even provide a rulebook for teachers OR parents. Finally, it seems the Hispanic component is getting lost in the translation, pardon the pun. |
Anonymous
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"hiring the right principals" um, yeah. Sure.
Just sat on a principal search committee panel for DCPS. What a joke. The candidates were so wildly unqualified, it was insulting. This of course, was after a "nationwide" search. If the quality of the principals I saw was indicative of the entire pool, I'd say DCPS is out of luck. And "expertise" wasn't even part of the scoring rubric. It would be funny, except this involves children. |
Anonymous
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AP's can execute program management. Doubtful
that many have the expertise for significant program design. And the principalclearly doesn't. Who does that leave? |
Anonymous
| Has Rhee visited her kids' school lately? |
Anonymous
| If the MS program is such a disaster, how did the graduating class fare so well with high school placement? |
Anonymous
| 21 out of 42 got to go where they want? Tested well? Did good interviews? Had an interesting story? |
Anonymous
| Maybe because 2/3 of their classmates transferred out, making for very small classes the last one to two years. A silver lining? |
Anonymous
| 11:53 For what? The O-A MS experience or HS placement? |
Anonymous
| Both, with only 42 kids in the whole 8th (there are typically three classes per grade) there's a lot more individualized teaching available. Also I haven't heard anyone complaining about the teachers on this thread, who get the job done despite the fraying of the community at the hands of the principal. |
Anonymous
| Sometimes I think the Oyster community is the problem. They haven't liked a principal since Paquita Holland retired in 2001. |
Anonymous
LOL. As an outsider who has attended a couple of Oyster open houses, I got the distinct impression that Oyster really has two separate communities and, to paint with an unfairly broad brush, the hispanic community is apathetic and the anglo community is bat-sh!t crazy. |
Anonymous
| It's more segmented than that in my view. The Hispanic community is not apathetic, it's been increasingly marginalized. There are lots of bicultural families, and working class versus professional class, and in-boundary versus out. That makes for lots of push-pull! We were there for eight years. It was wonderful, but strangely exhausting. |
Anonymous
Having been an insider, I would say the general hispanic community tend to participate in different ways -- more when called upon/then they rally! The professional hispanic and anglo communities are definitely both active and both bat sh!t crazy!!! |
Anonymous
| Does Oyster Principal acknowledge the departures to her school community and offer confidence in the program for families who remain? AFter all it must be demoralizing to have the Chancellor's child transfer out after two years. |
Anonymous
| Is it demoralizing to be hired because you're the chancellors friend? She sounds ok with compromise.... |