Why does the DC Mayor need to go to Cuba?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:From the Post article:

In a news release announcing the trip, the chamber said that the delegation would include D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and that the group would visit primary and secondary schools there to learn “how literacy, graduation and retention rates .?.?. remain consistently high.”

Maybe they can study Cuban techniques for jailing political prisoners, crushing free speech, and fending off UN human rights inquiries?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:From the Post article:

In a news release announcing the trip, the chamber said that the delegation would include D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and that the group would visit primary and secondary schools there to learn “how literacy, graduation and retention rates .?.?. remain consistently high.”

So DCPS is trying to learn from .... Cuba? Ya' think such things have anything to do with Cuba being a Communist dictatorship and police state? Mind you, at this point maybe DCPS is looking to try anything.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:From the Post article:

In a news release announcing the trip, the chamber said that the delegation would include D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and that the group would visit primary and secondary schools there to learn “how literacy, graduation and retention rates .?.?. remain consistently high.”

Hey, if this helps them start to learn Spanish and pay attention to the real culture and real needs of Hispanics in the city (nope, we are not just "colored"), the trip might have served a purpose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:From the Post article:

In a news release announcing the trip, the chamber said that the delegation would include D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and that the group would visit primary and secondary schools there to learn “how literacy, graduation and retention rates .?.?. remain consistently high.”

Maybe they can study Cuban techniques for jailing political prisoners, crushing free speech, and fending off UN human rights inquiries?

Bowser admires the Cuban regime's approach to transparency and good governance.

[Anonymous]

Total friggin' junket. DCPS has acute budge issues, exemplified by the Murch fiasco and random violent crime keeps going up. It's not like DC has significant agricultural or industrial sectors that could potentially do business with Cuba.

Frankly, it's gotten to the point that I don't know whether DC is better off if Bowser and Kaya stay here to work or just go....

[Anonymous]

If they really cared to bring useful stuff back to DCPS, then send representatives (principals) for a couple public schools that are almost 100% Latino. It infuriates me that the Chancellor is going on this junket.

[Anonymous]

She thought she was going to see Mark Cuban on the Shark Tank to pitch her idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:From the Post article:

In a news release announcing the trip, the chamber said that the delegation would include D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and that the group would visit primary and secondary schools there to learn “how literacy, graduation and retention rates .?.?. remain consistently high.”

Hey, if this helps them start to learn Spanish and pay attention to the real culture and real needs of Hispanics in the city (nope, we are not just "colored"), the trip might have served a purpose.

Please. Wishful thinking. And in any event, Cuban immigrants have a VERY different, preferential experience than other Hispanics. Witness the thousands of Cubans coming over the land border from Mexico -- whisked through the lines, eligibility for food stamps and Medicaid within weeks, expedited green cards and a path to citizenship after a year. Meanwhile, women and kids are being sent back to violent Central American countries. I'm not saying the US shouldn't enforce its immigration laws; we can't take everybody. But the Cuban preferences rankle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't care so much that the Mayor goes, but I care a ton that Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson is going. Why the hell is she going when budgets are getting released and they keep dropping bombs on school communities like Murch's renovation shortfall (yes, I know DGS is also part of it) and now I'm hearing that Central Office is going to try and shudder Fillmore Arts Center which several schools depend upon for arts education. And those schools are all so oversubscribed that there is NO SPACE to add an art department or music department. But she'll prioritize an all-boys school that will cost tens of millions. Ridiculous that she is going to Cuba. She needs to mind her own freaking house.

No way on earth Kaya is going there. Link?

Way.

Sad to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:From the Post article:

In a news release announcing the trip, the chamber said that the delegation would include D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and that the group would visit primary and secondary schools there to learn “how literacy, graduation and retention rates .?.?. remain consistently high.”

Hey, if this helps them start to learn Spanish and pay attention to the real culture and real needs of Hispanics in the city (nope, we are not just "colored"), the trip might have served a purpose.

Please. Wishful thinking. And in any event, Cuban immigrants have a VERY different, preferential experience than other Hispanics. Witness the thousands of Cubans coming over the land border from Mexico -- whisked through the lines, eligibility for food stamps and Medicaid within weeks, expedited green cards and a path to citizenship after a year. Meanwhile, women and kids are being sent back to violent Central American countries. I'm not saying the US shouldn't enforce its immigration laws; we can't take everybody. But the Cuban preferences rankle.

I was being sarcastic about this surreal trip

[Anonymous]

She is going for the same reason Fenty went to Dubai....LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is going for the same reason Fenty went to Dubai....LOL

That one-term Mayor...

(btw, going to mega-wealthy Dubai makes much more sense than going to poor and isolated Cuba)

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What could DC possibly get out of a trip to Cuba?

Artisanal cigars? Small batch Rum?

Vintage cars?

Really, she may be working out some tourist thing between Washington and Havana

[Anonymous]

We should send Kanye west.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:From the Post article:

In a news release announcing the trip, the chamber said that the delegation would include D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and that the group would visit primary and secondary schools there to learn “how literacy, graduation and retention rates .?.?. remain consistently high.”

So DCPS is trying to learn from .... Cuba? Ya' think such things have anything to do with Cuba being a Communist dictatorship and police state? Mind you, at this point maybe DCPS is looking to try anything.

Yep. Maybe they are looking for ways to emulate the Cuban lifestyle and political structure.