Letter from Cancellor re moving schools - opps - I got caught moving my kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can fire him, but then who do you have in the wings? Wilson is a good guy - though I'd like to know how you get through this mentally without saying, "I'm pretty sure I just signed a press release saying we don't do this shit anymore."

Actually, Niles always struck me as a basically good person trying to do an impossible job. Maybe her public persona is a total fake, but that's how she came across. Wilson strikes me as a faker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Superintendents that are elected are accountable to the community. But keep doing the same dumb sh!t! Wilson is average just like the person that put him in the position. Parents have no voice, opinion, or recourse. But this so called activist city likes it that way!

Superintendents are not elected in 99% of school districts in the U.S.

Boards of Education are typically elected -- and they hire professional superintendents.

http://www.nsba.org/ABOUT-US/FREQUENTLY-ASKED-QUESTIONS

[Anonymous]

Seems to me the Wilson HS principal has a few questions to answer here too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, but from what I just read that ethics board has been gutted. Can’t wait to see how “independent” it really is.

The IG has also been told to look into it.

Mayor's statement. https://twitter.com/MayorBowser/status/964586785220292615

This is probably the best thing she’s done her entire term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me the Wilson HS principal has a few questions to answer here too.

I don't see that. If the two highest education officials in DC are colluding I wouldn't expect a principal to stop them. They know what happens to whistle-blowers in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Come on, the Wilson Principal had absolutely no choice in this. Don't principals have a one year contract?
They put her in an impossible situation, she had no authority over Niles and Wilson. Seems very unfair to her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Come on, the Wilson Principal had absolutely no choice in this. Don't principals have a one year contract?
They put her in an impossible situation, she had no authority over Niles and Wilson. Seems very unfair to her.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

So Wilson only wants his kids to go to schools with Wilson in the name? A very crazy coincidence.
Woodrow Wilson HS, JO Wilson Elementary? Wierd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Come on, the Wilson Principal had absolutely no choice in this. Don't principals have a one year contract?
They put her in an impossible situation, she had no authority over Niles and Wilson. Seems very unfair to her.

Exactly and it’s not fair to expect someone to tank their own job to be a whistle blower.

[Anonymous]

"I will knowingly break the rules to avoid sending my daughter to Dunbar" is such an inspiring message from the leader of DC's public schools.

Everyone associated with Dunbar must be simply thrilled right now.

[Anonymous]

I feel bad for his kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seems to me the Wilson HS principal has a few questions to answer here too.

I don't see that. If the two highest education officials in DC are colluding I wouldn't expect a principal to stop them. They know what happens to whistle-blowers in DCPS.

OK. Then one of those questions would be were you pressured to enroll this student?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for his kid.

Yep. She'll be on her third school of the year starting Tuesday and it's a school that her father, the DCPS chancellor, clearly thinks is a piece of shit. I have to think that a lot of people there -- her classmates AND her teachers -- will be aware of this fact. She's going to have a target on her back, and it's her father's fault.

This assumes that she's indeed going to Dunbar and didn't get magically placed someplace else. Again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for his kid.

Yep. She'll be on her third school of the year starting Tuesday and it's a school that her father, the DCPS chancellor, clearly thinks is a piece of shit. I have to think that a lot of people there -- her classmates AND her teachers -- will be aware of this fact. She's going to have a target on her back, and it's her father's fault.

This assumes that she's indeed going to Dunbar and didn't get magically placed someplace else. Again.

Said somewhere that she'll be homeschooled for the remainder of the year! Way to go dad!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seems to me the Wilson HS principal has a few questions to answer here too.

I don't see that. If the two highest education officials in DC are colluding I wouldn't expect a principal to stop them. They know what happens to whistle-blowers in DCPS.

Also, what is the principal really going to tell her BOSS when he decides to skip the lottery and wants his daughter to go your school? Don't blame the principal.