i've never seen rhee look so flummoxed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's all very interesting and Shakespearan at this point. A chess game! Of course the kids always pay in the end, one way or another.

The people who voted against Fenty don't give a damn about the kids. The demographic of Gray supporters overwhelming either had no children at all or had children in private schools or charter schools. The welfare of DCPS kids was not on their radar. They will continue to deny this, but it is patently obvious. As usual, the greedy, shortsighted, plantation mentality has prevailed in Washington, DC.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Ok. No, paranoid crazy person, I am not whomever. Like I said she is not sulking, rather, scanning for loonies that might try to physically attack her. Look. at. the. picture. post-meeting. Not sulking. You sound like you're definitely the one who needs to grow up and learn to win gracefully.

If that is what you really believe, you are calling the wrong person paranoid and crazy.

Jeff, I am interested in this point because she had a police escort to the meeting. Why, if there isn't some threat?

[Anonymous]

12:30 Right. Not a single person who voted for Gray wants DC's schools to improve. You know this as fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Ok. No, paranoid crazy person, I am not whomever. Like I said she is not sulking, rather, scanning for loonies that might try to physically attack her. Look. at. the. picture. post-meeting. Not sulking. You sound like you're definitely the one who needs to grow up and learn to win gracefully.

If that is what you really believe, you are calling the wrong person paranoid and crazy.

Jeff, I am interested in this point because she had a police escort to the meeting. Why, if there isn't some threat?

Yes. Believe or not she is a national figure, albeit a incredibly polarizing one. There's nothing crazy or paranoid about her very real security risk.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Jeff, I am interested in this point because she had a police escort to the meeting. Why, if there isn't some threat?

To get her there on time? Or, because of the huge number of reporters and photographer who were covering the event? At the time he was allegedly scanning the crowd for assassins, she was inside the Wilson building and practically everyone there was with the media. She left by herself to get on an elevator and some of the same people got on with her.

This "their out to get Rhee" theory is being espoused by a pro-Fenty poster who has routinely posted derogatory things about Gray supporters. The idea that Gray supporters now want to physically hurt Rhee is just another in a long line of similar allegations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:12:30 Right. Not a single person who voted for Gray wants DC's schools to improve. You know this as fact.

No. I don't know that. But I know it was not the primary motivator for their voting allegiance. Voting trends can be analyzed according to the factors such marital status, economic status, race, school enrollment, etc. You don't really think a person has to be a mind reader to surmise and analyze voting patterns, do you?

[Anonymous]

Just saw the video--and Rhee did not look "flummoxed" or like she was about to cry. She did look bored, frustrated, and tired--like she just wanted to get out of there.

As for the voting pattern--maybe if voters in bad school districts thought about politics the way that voters in good school districts voted, they would have better schools.

[Anonymous]

This is video-viewing to the test. The rorschach test.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeff, I am interested in this point because she had a police escort to the meeting. Why, if there isn't some threat?

To get her there on time? Or, because of the huge number of reporters and photographer who were covering the event? At the time he was allegedly scanning the crowd for assassins, she was inside the Wilson building and practically everyone there was with the media. She left by herself to get on an elevator and some of the same people got on with her.

This "their out to get Rhee" theory is being espoused by a pro-Fenty poster who has routinely posted derogatory things about Gray supporters. The idea that Gray supporters now want to physically hurt Rhee is just another in a long line of similar allegations.

Are posters tracked on this board? Saying something about a poster's history in this way struck me as odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just saw the video--and Rhee did not look "flummoxed" or like she was about to cry. She did look bored, frustrated, and tired--like she just wanted to get out of there.

As for the voting pattern--maybe if voters in bad school districts thought about politics the way that voters in good school districts voted, they would have better schools.

Perhaps if Rhee and Fenty had spent as much interest and attention to the schools in the not so good school district, as they spent in the better school districts, Fenty would have received the same amount of support and enthusiasm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rhee's look is so predicatable... She ain't changed that scowl since she's been here...if she did smile more...I would think she's on a verge of a nervous breakdown. You're right, she was searching for a friendly face...and I was there when she saw certain councilmembers while exiting "thumbs up" were exchanged. If she really wanted to show a disengaged posture...she would have whipped out that blackberry and so be it. What idiot is saying that Gray is having her twisting in the wind...an election is still before us. If Rhee wanted to throw a monkey-wrench in it...she could resign and Fenty would had to appoint an interim and let the flood of speculations flow. She's not an elected official but a hired District employee...the federal sector is her oyster...also any state, city and county education has their sights on her too.
It's not the flummoxed look but the self-imposed gag-order that's probably acid-reflux irritating for Rhee.

Well if you read the MD school forum, the people in MOCO have no interest in M. Rhee as their next school chancellor. Not everyone is enamored by M Rhee, like the good folks of upper caucasia DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just saw the video--and Rhee did not look "flummoxed" or like she was about to cry. She did look bored, frustrated, and tired--like she just wanted to get out of there.

As for the voting pattern--maybe if voters in bad school districts thought about politics the way that voters in good school districts voted, they would have better schools.

Perhaps if Rhee and Fenty had spent as much interest and attention to the schools in the not so good school district, as they spent in the better school districts, Fenty would have received the same amount of support and enthusiasm.

In the bad school districts the population is more concerned about DCPS as an employer, than as an educator of their children. This is a racial and cultural fact of life. There is a pervasive anti-intellectualism in the poorer districts and it has a direct correlation to poorer school performance. AA's who voted against Fenty were motivated by the loss of jobs by AA teachers, custodians and the like. AA's in this city have behaved like Tea Baggers and have allowed prejudice to sway them to vote against their direct interest. It is horrific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeff, I am interested in this point because she had a police escort to the meeting. Why, if there isn't some threat?

To get her there on time? Or, because of the huge number of reporters and photographer who were covering the event? At the time he was allegedly scanning the crowd for assassins, she was inside the Wilson building and practically everyone there was with the media. She left by herself to get on an elevator and some of the same people got on with her.

This "their out to get Rhee" theory is being espoused by a pro-Fenty poster who has routinely posted derogatory things about Gray supporters. The idea that Gray supporters now want to physically hurt Rhee is just another in a long line of similar allegations.

Are posters tracked on this board? Saying something about a poster's history in this way struck me as odd.

Just a very unfortunate attempt to silence dissent. That's all.

[Anonymous]

Oh get real. I'm white, I have a PhD, I care deeply about education and I voted against Fenty (for a myriad of reasons, including Rhee). Her scorched earth policies haven't yielded any significant improvement and she's creating an environment that's toxic enough to drive some of the best teachers out of DCPS. Reiner, Siebens, Martel, Brandenburg, "the Reflective Educator" have been some of the casualties.

And it's just plain racist to claim that black voters in DC don't care about education. Their kids/schools have suffered the most under Rhee -- the level of churn we're experiencing is just stunning and it's no basis for reform.

It hasn't been a purge or a re-education process, it's more like Rhee channeling the Red Queen and yelling "off with their heads" whenever anything doesn't go as she'd planned. And it never does go as she planned because she doesn't know WTF she's doing.

[Anonymous]

18:30, I'm with, both demographically and in your analysis.

I'm a DCPS parent. I care. It got worse, much worse under Rhee. I think Gray has been incredibly classy throughout this process and Rhee has behaved badly. Of course she's behaved badly the entire time she was in DC, which made her a media darling.

Bottom line: she hurt my child's school. I want her gone.