Secret report shows ‘special’ treatment for public officials in D.C. school lottery

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, I am pretty sure that Ross and Brent aren't the only schools that have students with deaf parents...

True, but I can believe that Brent, given its proximity to Gaulludet, might have a bigger or better organized proportion of kids fluent in ASL with deaf parents.

I hate to detract from the main point of this thread which is to skewer DC officials for their blatant corruption BUT ...

Brent is nowhere near Gallaudet. There are like 5 other elementary schools that are closer.

You beat me to it! Welcome to DCUM, where knowing anything isn't a prerequisite to stating an opinion.

it's in the general proximity, and I can certainly see that given how schools and neighborhoods developed, a cohort of Gaullaudet-affiliated parents would have enrolled their kids in Brent starting several years ago OOB, or moved in-bounds on the Hill. In fact there's an entire group called Capitol hill Children of Deaf Parents. But yeah, welcome to DCUM where everyone believes that they are THEEE expert.

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Anonymous wrote:In what catchment do the Young kids actually live?

They are IB for Brightwood / 16th Street Hts.

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Anonymous wrote:In what catchment do the Young kids actually live?

They are IB for Brightwood / 16th Street Hts.

What a joke. He should be fired for this, Snowden, too. Or have to enroll in their IB. Such BS.

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, I am pretty sure that Ross and Brent aren't the only schools that have students with deaf parents...

True, but I can believe that Brent, given its proximity to Gaulludet, might have a bigger or better organized proportion of kids fluent in ASL with deaf parents.

I hate to detract from the main point of this thread which is to skewer DC officials for their blatant corruption BUT ...

Brent is nowhere near Gallaudet. There are like 5 other elementary schools that are closer.

You beat me to it! Welcome to DCUM, where knowing anything isn't a prerequisite to stating an opinion.

it's in the general proximity, and I can certainly see that given how schools and neighborhoods developed, a cohort of Gaullaudet-affiliated parents would have enrolled their kids in Brent starting several years ago OOB, or moved in-bounds on the Hill. In fact there's an entire group called Capitol hill Children of Deaf Parents. But yeah, welcome to DCUM where everyone believes that they are THEEE expert.

No, it isn't. Maps and distances aren't debatable just because you know how make an eyeroll emoji.

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Could those of you trying to take this thread off-topic by going on and on about the stupid Brent situation and where it sits in proximity to, give it a rest? The poor mother who made the request and already has her plateful dealing with the deaf child was told no. Happy? Now let's focus on the fat bureaucrats who selfishly took advantage

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, I am pretty sure that Ross and Brent aren't the only schools that have students with deaf parents...

True, but I can believe that Brent, given its proximity to Gaulludet, might have a bigger or better organized proportion of kids fluent in ASL with deaf parents.

Brent has a special program and very few students in it, so that this parents needs weren't accommodated or at the very least attempted to be secured is a disgrace.

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, I am pretty sure that Ross and Brent aren't the only schools that have students with deaf parents...

True, but I can believe that Brent, given its proximity to Gaulludet, might have a bigger or better organized proportion of kids fluent in ASL with deaf parents.

Brent has a special program and very few students in it, so that this parents needs weren't accommodated or at the very least attempted to be secured is a disgrace.

According to https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/GAGA-2015-R0046-AttachmentJ9OSI14-15ProgramsandResourcesGuideforStaff.pdf at least in 2014-15, the ASL program for DCPS was at Payne, which is closer to Gallaudet than Brent or Ross is. It's hard to know the details as to whether the child should have been granted a transfer to Brent or Ross. But that doesn't affect whether it was appropriate for Snowden, Young, Fenty, etc. to get transfers (it wasn't).

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Anonymous wrote:Courtney Snowden's explanation from her FB page:
"First, let me thank you for the overwhelming out pouring of support. I love my boys, and being their mom has truly been the greatest honor of my life. Like every parent, I take the responsibility of raising my babies very seriously. You know that, if you don't know anything else about me.

Second, let me just clear up some facts. I went through the lottery, as every parent interested in a DC Public School placement does. To my knowledge, my baby was not matched to any school.

As is the right of any District parent, I petitioned DCPS to secure a discretionary placement, and I am grateful that Chancellor Henderson was able to assist in securing a seat at a school that fit my child's unique needs.

Some of you are aware of some of the challenges Malik experienced in his previous school, and I am so grateful that DCPS has such wonderfully diverse options to meet the needs of students with different learning styles.

Now, back to the work of expanding opportunity for every single District resident in all 8 wards."

Huh.

Yes Courtney, we know it is a right of every parent -- it just stinks of cronyism that you got one.

And just like you we all love our babies and want schools that fit their unique needs but don't happen to be friends with the Chancellor.

Please, please get canned. What you have done is actually taken away an opportunity for another child by accepting that placement.

Does she not realize that it's the right of every parent to request a special placement, but that very very few parents are every granted this right?

And is it really the "right" of every parent when the response is "How dare you even ask me this," a la the CHML teacher/parent?

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FYI Bowser is on the Kojo show tomorrow (Friday) at noon to discuss lottery scandal

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Anonymous wrote:Um this does not give me ANY confidence in the ability of Rashad Young to lead. You have to read this exchange ... wow

https://twitter.com/Young_CityDC/status/865219354899755008

He doesn't get it either!!! If you don't enroll on time then your slot goes to the next child on the waitlist! It isn't there for you to enroll at any point in time when you feel like it.

I can't on the lack of residency proof. I mean these people are joking. Please tell me they are joking.

You know who looks like Saints in all of this? The Principals who get these parents shoved down their throats and have to fit in kids to schools with no room and packed to the gills. Especially the CHM@L Principal who had to accept a student yet couldn't help get a teacher's kid in.

And the way [b]Kaya shamed and chided that principal for asking on behalf of the teacher is breathtaking. Audacity is where Kaya lives[/b].

And then she turns around and helps a former classmate.....

I am enraged.

It is sickening but very DCPS. It's how unconnected minion teachers and admin get spoken to from those in the halls of Olympus

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a crazy idea - properly resource all of the schools, including academic offerings, facilities, supports, etc. so parents aren't playing Hunger games over available "good" schools. Everyone knows the affluent schools get more system support in addition to self-funding whatever else they want to have a "public plus" school.

This is simply wrong. The affluent schools get fewer resources. You need to rethink your understanding of the problem.

PP who just posted the same thing here. Do you honestly think that if you put the bottom 10% of DCPS kids into Janney they would suddenly improve?? NO. My kids go to this school. I will tell you that it has all the ups and downs of being in a large public school, and if your child has all the challenges of being poor they are not going to suddenly thrive at Janney. Janney and the other high performing ES in DCPS do well because of the high SES cohort and family support the kids have -- I promise there is nothing special about being in those 4 walls.

Lafayette until the renovation was in a horribly dumpy building, with no walls (open classroom), rats, etc. Parents uniformly said that being in trailer city was a VAST improvement over the building. Yet, you had people like FENTY gaming the system to get their kids in. (Same can be said for Murch, pre renovation). This has nothing to do with the facilities.

and yet those schools had no trouble getting to the front of the line for modernization funding unlike other schools with less connected parents. Aside from Eaton, every non-modernized school in the pipeline serves a largely low income/at risk community.

Murch waited in line for a renovation of its decrepit building for nearly 20 years. In fact, it got pushed to the BACK of the line, repeatedly, to the point where it became borderline dangerous for kids to go to school there.

But don't let the facts get in the way of your screed.

Only on DCUM could you take a legitimate, documented case of corruption by school officials and turn it into an argument about WOTP schools not getting enough resources and who should have gotten modernized when ... I'm not mad I'm impressed

+! -- and DCPS school modernization effort is on its 12th year after Fenty began prioritizing. 20 years is just the prolonged sense of entitlment and outrage at a handfull of OOB students getting undeserved preference.

You don't have the full story. 20 years ago is when a group of Murch parents did the work to get a grant to fix Murch and then decided not to use that money for Murch, but rather to launch a city-wide study on the need for renovations at every school. So yes, it's been 20 years, not 12.

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11 pages on this and nothing on the budget cuts to the schools - you know, an issue that really affects us!

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, I am pretty sure that Ross and Brent aren't the only schools that have students with deaf parents...

True, but I can believe that Brent, given its proximity to Gaulludet, might have a bigger or better organized proportion of kids fluent in ASL with deaf parents.

I hate to detract from the main point of this thread which is to skewer DC officials for their blatant corruption BUT ...

Brent is nowhere near Gallaudet. There are like 5 other elementary schools that are closer.

You beat me to it! Welcome to DCUM, where knowing anything isn't a prerequisite to stating an opinion.

it's in the general proximity, and I can certainly see that given how schools and neighborhoods developed, a cohort of Gaullaudet-affiliated parents would have enrolled their kids in Brent starting several years ago OOB, or moved in-bounds on the Hill. In fact there's an entire group called Capitol hill Children of Deaf Parents. But yeah, welcome to DCUM where everyone believes that they are THEEE expert.

No, it isn't. Maps and distances aren't debatable just because you know how make an eyeroll emoji.

do you have evidence that there is no community of children with deaf parents at Brent?

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So Bowwow is corrupt and her minions are corrupt. She's going to skate on the corruption charge because the guilty minion (who was paid a good quarter of million per year) is now gone.

It won't stop any dumb auto-donkey voter from automatically supporting Bowwow in the next election, because that's how machine politics work.

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Anonymous wrote:11 pages on this and nothing on the budget cuts to the schools - you know, an issue that really affects us!

If we didn't have so much corruption, we'd have more money for our schools. It's all connected.

We are capable of focusing on multiple issues. I've worked through other avenues to fight for more funding.

Why don't you start another thread if you are concerned about funding?

Why do Courtney Snowden, Roberto Rodriguez, the city administrator, etc. think they can game the system at the expense of disabled children and the working class?

I'm sorry, if you make over $200K or work for a President, you are doing okay. You don't need a special connection. Let's focus on those that truly need support in this world.