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

[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?!

Look. There is no grand plan or conspiracy. DCPS has been a political entity, a middle class jobs program and a playground for leftist experimenters for many years. The adults in charge are lame and so the schools are lame. That’s why almost 50% of public school families choose charters and why charters are a huge part of the solution here in DC

[Anonymous]

I would like a new mayor. Robert White seems decent. Too bad Karl Racine decided not to run

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?!

Look. There is no grand plan or conspiracy. DCPS has been a political entity, a middle class jobs program and a playground for leftist experimenters for many years. The adults in charge are lame and so the schools are lame. That’s why almost 50% of public school families choose charters and why charters are a huge part of the solution here in DC

Love it when the Republicans arrive to a DC thread. (Your radical word choice and ideas make it clear, so please don’t protest.)

I know it’s hard being in a city where people try to improve society for working people and not just sell out the government for billionaires’ profit. I know it’s hard to be a pro-billionaire anti-democracy radical if you live in DC because you have to hide your actual horrible ideas, and only post them here on DCUM. But really— few actual real-life parents agree with you. Please stop. Maybe move to a red area and stop bothering us.

Also:

The whole problem is that there is no grand plan.
And that the adults in charge — Bowser, Ferebee — are lame.
It’s nice you agree.

I think the next mayor will hopefully have a lot more focus on DCPS.

[Anonymous]

I'd let Laura Fuchs teach my kids any day.

She sounds like she cares a lot, and has a perspective on the world – the structural and societal factors that affect history – beyond the history books she's using.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would like a new mayor. Robert White seems decent. Too bad Karl Racine decided not to run

I want a new mayor too. Bowser is awful.

[Anonymous]

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

She sends her kid to a DCPS so presumably she gives a few Fs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?!

Look. There is no grand plan or conspiracy. DCPS has been a political entity, a middle class jobs program and a playground for leftist experimenters for many years. The adults in charge are lame and so the schools are lame. That’s why almost 50% of public school families choose charters and why charters are a huge part of the solution here in DC

Love it when the Republicans arrive to a DC thread. (Your radical word choice and ideas make it clear, so please don’t protest.)

I know it’s hard being in a city where people try to improve society for working people and not just sell out the government for billionaires’ profit. I know it’s hard to be a pro-billionaire anti-democracy radical if you live in DC because you have to hide your actual horrible ideas, and only post them here on DCUM. But really— few actual real-life parents agree with you. Please stop. Maybe move to a red area and stop bothering us.

Also:

The whole problem is that there is no grand plan.
And that the adults in charge — Bowser, Ferebee — are lame.
It’s nice you agree.

I think the next mayor will hopefully have a lot more focus on DCPS.

Not the immediate PP but again, if you want an echo chamber, there is no shortage of options for you on progressive Twitter.

[Anonymous]

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

To what? For profit quasi-educational institutions with no oversight? We did it with prisons, why not schools, eh?

[Anonymous]

I’m not a Bowser fan by a long shot but, no, I don’t think her goal is to destroy public schools. Why can’t you just say you strongly oppose her approach to them? Hyperbole only weakens your argument.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?!

Look. There is no grand plan or conspiracy. DCPS has been a political entity, a middle class jobs program and a playground for leftist experimenters for many years. The adults in charge are lame and so the schools are lame. That’s why almost 50% of public school families choose charters and why charters are a huge part of the solution here in DC

Love it when the Republicans arrive to a DC thread. (Your radical word choice and ideas make it clear, so please don’t protest.)

I know it’s hard being in a city where people try to improve society for working people and not just sell out the government for billionaires’ profit. I know it’s hard to be a pro-billionaire anti-democracy radical if you live in DC because you have to hide your actual horrible ideas, and only post them here on DCUM. But really— few actual real-life parents agree with you. Please stop. Maybe move to a red area and stop bothering us.

Also:

The whole problem is that there is no grand plan.
And that the adults in charge — Bowser, Ferebee — are lame.
It’s nice you agree.

I think the next mayor will hopefully have a lot more focus on DCPS.

I’m PP and the degree to which you are completely wrong about my political leanings demonstrates the problem with trying to solve education issues in DC with didactic progressive tropes. Open your mind, dump out the preconceived notions, really look at what’s working ( or not ) for students in our city and then we’ll talk. In the meantime, you are predictable boring and ineffective

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

To what? For profit quasi-educational institutions with no oversight? We did it with prisons, why not schools, eh?

Did you miss the fact that 50% of parents (including many BIPOC parents) freely choose charters every year in DC? Get out of here with your stupid rhetoric. Nobody takes you seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not a Bowser fan by a long shot but, no, I don’t think her goal is to destroy public schools. Why can’t you just say you strongly oppose her approach to them? Hyperbole only weakens your argument.

because OP (and Laura Fuchs) don’t actually want to have a conversation about what works best to educate kids in DC. They have an extremist, pro-union, anti-charter ideology.

people who actually care about kids in DC can see for themselves the plusses and minuses of charters. Clearly many families in DC are satisfied with charters (of every race/income level) and plenty of charters seem to do a solid job based on test scores. We’re in DCPS and based on conversations with my friends in charters, the flexibility of charters can provide a lot of advantages. otoh we are very happy with the curriculum and structure of our neighborhood DCPS and the excellent teaching staff with minimal turnover, no doubt in part due to the better wages than charters AND the school being wealthy and more attractive to teachers. There’s a lot of nuance but it’s clear charters are here to stay and provide a positive resource in DC to a lot of kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?!

Look. There is no grand plan or conspiracy. DCPS has been a political entity, a middle class jobs program and a playground for leftist experimenters for many years. The adults in charge are lame and so the schools are lame. That’s why almost 50% of public school families choose charters and why charters are a huge part of the solution here in DC

Love it when the Republicans arrive to a DC thread. (Your radical word choice and ideas make it clear, so please don’t protest.)

I know it’s hard being in a city where people try to improve society for working people and not just sell out the government for billionaires’ profit. I know it’s hard to be a pro-billionaire anti-democracy radical if you live in DC because you have to hide your actual horrible ideas, and only post them here on DCUM. But really— few actual real-life parents agree with you. Please stop. Maybe move to a red area and stop bothering us.

Also:

The whole problem is that there is no grand plan.
And that the adults in charge — Bowser, Ferebee — are lame.
It’s nice you agree.

I think the next mayor will hopefully have a lot more focus on DCPS.

lol how many “real life parents” do you think agree with your absurd ranting about “privatizers” and demonization of the Broad Insititute? Zero. It’s just you and 4 people on Twitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?!

Look. There is no grand plan or conspiracy. DCPS has been a political entity, a middle class jobs program and a playground for leftist experimenters for many years. The adults in charge are lame and so the schools are lame. That’s why almost 50% of public school families choose charters and why charters are a huge part of the solution here in DC

Love it when the Republicans arrive to a DC thread. (Your radical word choice and ideas make it clear, so please don’t protest.)

I know it’s hard being in a city where people try to improve society for working people and not just sell out the government for billionaires’ profit. I know it’s hard to be a pro-billionaire anti-democracy radical if you live in DC because you have to hide your actual horrible ideas, and only post them here on DCUM. But really— few actual real-life parents agree with you. Please stop. Maybe move to a red area and stop bothering us.

Also:

The whole problem is that there is no grand plan.
And that the adults in charge — Bowser, Ferebee — are lame.
It’s nice you agree.

I think the next mayor will hopefully have a lot more focus on DCPS.

I’m PP and the degree to which you are completely wrong about my political leanings demonstrates the problem with trying to solve education issues in DC with didactic progressive tropes. Open your mind, dump out the preconceived notions, really look at what’s working ( or not ) for students in our city and then we’ll talk. In the meantime, you are predictable boring and ineffective

+1 Anyone that tells you to move somewhere else because you have a different opinion is a jerk who should be ignored.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would like a new mayor. Robert White seems decent. Too bad Karl Racine decided not to run

Robert White seems more useless than Bowser. He has no school plan but harps on about the need for urgency to address school issues. He's just disingenuous and an obvious political hack.

And of course, Robert White supported delaying school reopening. So yeah, if you want schools to remain open, Robert White ain't your guy. (Although I'm sure he is Laura Fuchs' guy.)