Letter from Cancellor re moving schools - opps - I got caught moving my kid?

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Anonymous wrote:Seems to me the Wilson HS principal has a few questions to answer here too.

Um, if you remember she put her own kid in her school under the same premise.

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The kid has to be kicked out of his school starting Monday.

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Anonymous wrote:The kid has to be kicked out of his school starting Monday.

Or Tuesday.

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Anonymous wrote:Come on, the Wilson Principal had absolutely no choice in this. Don't principals have a one year contract?
They put her in an impossible situation, she had no authority over Niles and Wilson. Seems very unfair to her.

Exactly and it’s not fair to expect someone to tank their own job to be a whistle blower.

Of course don't be surprised if they drop a dime to the Post and the story comes out...

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Recent article said she will be home schooled for the rest of the year. Both parents are educators. Not really a concern.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for his kid.

Yep. She'll be on her third school of the year starting Tuesday and it's a school that her father, the DCPS chancellor, clearly thinks is a piece of shit. I have to think that a lot of people there -- her classmates AND her teachers -- will be aware of this fact. She's going to have a target on her back, and it's her father's fault.

This assumes that she's indeed going to Dunbar and didn't get magically placed someplace else. Again.

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I was going to give Wilson the benefit of the doubt when he got the Chancellor position and felt it was unfair to blame him for the shenanigans at Ballou since he inherited that disaster from Kaya. But this move is soooo tone deaf. He really needs to go. He has absolutely no credibility now. Is he really going to lecture people about residency fraud or boundary cheating when even he recognizes that certain schools are desirable and others are not and he tried to game the system? No moral authority. He needs to go.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to give Wilson the benefit of the doubt when he got the Chancellor position and felt it was unfair to blame him for the shenanigans at Ballou since he inherited that disaster from Kaya. But this move is soooo tone deaf. He really needs to go. He has absolutely no credibility now. Is he really going to lecture people about residency fraud or boundary cheating when even he recognizes that certain schools are desirable and others are not and he tried to game the system? No moral authority. He needs to go.

Beyond that, is he really going to convince people to try their IB schools? And in the meetings in Ward 3 about school crowding, the message from DCPS has been there's lots of space, you just need to consider schools other than Deal and Wilson. How is that message going to play when the Chancellor doesn't do it.

It's like the restaurant where the staff won't eat the food.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to give Wilson the benefit of the doubt when he got the Chancellor position and felt it was unfair to blame him for the shenanigans at Ballou since he inherited that disaster from Kaya. But this move is soooo tone deaf. He really needs to go. He has absolutely no credibility now. Is he really going to lecture people about residency fraud or boundary cheating when even he recognizes that certain schools are desirable and others are not and he tried to game the system? No moral authority. He needs to go.

+1. I found him arrogant at the recent hearing before the Ed committee. He said again and again that he didn’t plan any additional investigations but wanted to focus on training and moving forward. No intellectual curiosity or understanding that he had an opportunity to be a hero by cleaning house. He’s a lightweight.

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This story stinks up and down. Ellington isn't just in-demand. It is also audition-based and there's no mention of Wilson's kid auditioning.

It also sounds like they were only at the school for a few weeks before asking for a transfer. I wonder if getting hand-placed into a program meant to be reserved for kids with genuine talent and years of training had anything to do with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Recent article said she will be home schooled for the rest of the year. Both parents are educators. Not really a concern.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for his kid.

Yep. She'll be on her third school of the year starting Tuesday and it's a school that her father, the DCPS chancellor, clearly thinks is a piece of shit. I have to think that a lot of people there -- her classmates AND her teachers -- will be aware of this fact. She's going to have a target on her back, and it's her father's fault.

This assumes that she's indeed going to Dunbar and didn't get magically placed someplace else. Again.

"I'd rather home-school my daughter than send her to Dunbar" is yet another thing you probably don't want to hear from the DCPS chancellor.

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I just don't understand how he can say he did not know the rule, and let the Dep Mayor of Ed take the fall,

Is this his proposed rule making on out of boundary transfers?

https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/Notice%20of%20Proposed%20Rulemking%20Out%20of%20Boundary%20Transfers.pdf

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no one is going to respect him now. sad because I had high hopes for him. he needs to go.

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it's kind off funny took because scps teachers just learned that they are finally getting their long awaited pay raise today. coincidence? i think not. sounds like he's trying to make nicey nicey.

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Anonymous wrote:This story stinks up and down. Ellington isn't just in-demand. It is also audition-based and there's no mention of Wilson's kid auditioning.

It also sounds like they were only at the school for a few weeks before asking for a transfer. I wonder if getting hand-placed into a program meant to be reserved for kids with genuine talent and years of training had anything to do with it.

The timing is very tight. Williams' first day on the job was February 1, 2017. The application deadline for Ellington was February 1, 2017. Auditions were the following week. Plus they had to squeeze in an admission test and an interview. Not impossible, but very tight. Especially since you have to have established residency already to participate in the registration process.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This story stinks up and down. Ellington isn't just in-demand. It is also audition-based and there's no mention of Wilson's kid auditioning.

It also sounds like they were only at the school for a few weeks before asking for a transfer. I wonder if getting hand-placed into a program meant to be reserved for kids with genuine talent and years of training had anything to do with it.

The timing is very tight. Williams' first day on the job was February 1, 2017. The application deadline for Ellington was February 1, 2017. Auditions were the following week. Plus they had to squeeze in an admission test and an interview. Not impossible, but very tight. Especially since you have to have established residency already to participate in the registration process.

He could’ve applied well before his first official day of work. Auditions happen after the deadline. Registration deadline is May 1.