ugh - michelle rhee on daily show tonight

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Anonymous wrote:

She's the Sarah Palin of school reform.

i love this! totally true! she was all style, no substance. tolerated a culture of cheating to goose scores. she has no resume to speak of, yet people act like she is the 2d coming. she QUIT before grey fired her (rather than compromise any of her dogmatic beliefs) then boo-hooed about how much she loved DC. she's a phoney. glad i missed that episode.

+1.

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So, I don't think she burnt her bridges with certain politicians and hence will be back in heartbeat if Mayor Granddaddy leaves.

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Anonymous wrote:Another shout out to Rhee. She got the ball rolling.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

She's the Sarah Palin of school reform.

i love this! totally true! she was all style, no substance. tolerated a culture of cheating to goose scores. she has no resume to speak of, yet people act like she is the 2d coming. she QUIT before grey fired her (rather than compromise any of her dogmatic beliefs) then boo-hooed about how much she loved DC. she's a phoney. glad i missed that episode.

+1.

Oh please, give up the ghost... everyone failed the kids. Boo-hoo, blame her predecessors too and the teachers AND the parents.

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She was a boss who didn;t walk the walk or talk the talk herself. What were her credentials? What were her testing results in Baltimore? Oh wait, she swallowed a bee. I have no problem with non-traditionalists but she created a 1,000 little boxes that teachers, students, academic programs had to fit into--without having met those constraints herself. And the boxes are still there, even though she's gone.

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Jon Stewart really checked her on her BS, though.

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Anonymous wrote:

She's the Sarah Palin of school reform.

i love this! totally true! she was all style, no substance. tolerated a culture of cheating to goose scores. she has no resume to speak of, yet people act like she is the 2d coming. she QUIT before grey fired her (rather than compromise any of her dogmatic beliefs) then boo-hooed about how much she loved DC. she's a phoney. glad i missed that episode.

I love the reference to Grey here; is that really the kind of governance you want for the school system or the city.... Corrupt AND incompetent? Look, Rhee was an ambitious young woman who had some balls and imploded some of the complacency about a broken school system. She didn't fix that system, and I suspect she'll never live up to her hype, but I'd rather have a hustler who is trying to do something creative than the idiocy that ruled before her, or the world of shakedowns and profiteering that Grey represents. Give credit to Ryee for shaking things up, give more credit to KYa for putting things on a more sustainable track, and hope DC can attract smart young people who will try to make this city great for all its residents, ESP it's kids.

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If Rhee was such an ambitious go-getter, why didn't she take on the challenge of working within a Gray administration? Sure, you can point out all the reasons she thought it wouldn't work. But the way she quit tells me that she's afraid of a chqllenge, or just doesn't give a damn about DC kids. Or both.

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"ambitious young woman who had some balls"

So now she's 40 something with balls, married to a guy who likes young girls.

And how old are Huffman/Rhee spawn.

Ick. Ick. Ick.

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She totally left the job unfinished. A part of the job as the chancellor of DCPS is to play the political game. She totally failed in that area.

Now, as a part of website she gives letter grades to states based on her big 3. Many states have failing grades, but not DC. None of the rankings are based on test scores....hmmm.

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11:39 : shout out to rhee? got the ball rolling? Wrong, not realizing it would kill his promise and lead to early demise, Fenty got the ball rolling by taking DCPS away from a dysfunctional school board and separating DCPS Ed. from DCPS Facilities, and his greatest success was hiring Allen Lew for buildings. His worst failure and undoing was annointing Rhee and then standing by her no matter how idiotic her actions were. She is literally a piece of garbage, stepped all over people to get her way and today has the nerve to show up with a book acknowledging she maybe could have done somethings differently, but will never apologize for firing -- indiscriminately -- and ruining the careers of -- numerous talented and wise principals and teachers. No, I'm not a teacher. I'm now a private school parent who can't stomach Kaya either.

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Anonymous wrote:11:39 : shout out to rhee? got the ball rolling? Wrong, not realizing it would kill his promise and lead to early demise, Fenty got the ball rolling by taking DCPS away from a dysfunctional school board and separating DCPS Ed. from DCPS Facilities, and his greatest success was hiring Allen Lew for buildings. His worst failure and undoing was annointing Rhee and then standing by her no matter how idiotic her actions were. She is literally a piece of garbage, stepped all over people to get her way and today has the nerve to show up with a book acknowledging she maybe could have done somethings differently, but will never apologize for firing -- indiscriminately -- and ruining the careers of -- numerous talented and wise principals and teachers. No, I'm not a teacher. I'm now a private school parent who can't stomach Kaya either.

Wow, there's a lot going on there.

Another big shout out to Rhee for unlocking the gears.

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Anonymous wrote:I miss her. If we can forgive and forget Marion Barry we can welcome back Michelle with open arms.

Then what? put her back in charge of the schools again? So she can turnaround the turnarounds til we all are dizzy?

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Anonymous wrote:11:39 : shout out to rhee? got the ball rolling? Wrong, not realizing it would kill his promise and lead to early demise, Fenty got the ball rolling by taking DCPS away from a dysfunctional school board and separating DCPS Ed. from DCPS Facilities, and his greatest success was hiring Allen Lew for buildings. His worst failure and undoing was annointing Rhee and then standing by her no matter how idiotic her actions were. She is literally a piece of garbage, stepped all over people to get her way and today has the nerve to show up with a book acknowledging she maybe could have done somethings differently, but will never apologize for firing -- indiscriminately -- and ruining the careers of -- numerous talented and wise principals and teachers. No, I'm not a teacher. I'm now a private school parent who can't stomach Kaya either.

This about sums it up for me. Rhee was Fenty's undoing. He created a monster!

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Anonymous wrote:Another shout out to Rhee. She got the ball rolling.

And it rolled back into a ditch -- at great expense to the taxpayers, with no academic improvement for the kids.