Movies at school. All day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you paying for aftercare???

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^
Well then make your child--instead of the Almighty $--your priority & pick your kid up after school. Or hire a babysitter who fits your liking. Aftercare is a HUGE privilege. Public Ed is the right.

Please.

I wanted leave it at "please" but I can't help myself. You can't be serious. I don't want my kids watching movies after school and so my only choice is to leave work and pick them up myself or pay a babysitter? Sorry, can't lower my expectations that low.

Not sure you needed three question marks to ask that, but yes, I'm talking about paid aftercare.

[Anonymous]

Maybe I missed it, but did you speak to the aftercare director? If you are paying then they should offer programs like sports box or Parkour.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you paying for aftercare???

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^
Well then make your child--instead of the Almighty $--your priority & pick your kid up after school. Or hire a babysitter who fits your liking. Aftercare is a HUGE privilege. Public Ed is the right.

Please.

I wanted leave it at "please" but I can't help myself. You can't be serious. I don't want my kids watching movies after school and so my only choice is to leave work and pick them up myself or pay a babysitter? Sorry, can't lower my expectations that low.

Not sure you needed three question marks to ask that, but yes, I'm talking about paid aftercare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe I missed it, but did you speak to the aftercare director? If you are paying then they should offer programs like sports box or Parkour.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you paying for aftercare???

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^
Well then make your child--instead of the Almighty $--your priority & pick your kid up after school. Or hire a babysitter who fits your liking. Aftercare is a HUGE privilege. Public Ed is the right.

Please.

I wanted leave it at "please" but I can't help myself. You can't be serious. I don't want my kids watching movies after school and so my only choice is to leave work and pick them up myself or pay a babysitter? Sorry, can't lower my expectations that low.

Not sure you needed three question marks to ask that, but yes, I'm talking about paid aftercare.

I did - brought it up with our aftercare director a few years ago, and they were very receptive and have come a long way since then. Now our aftercare offers sports, theater, STEM, all kinds of stuff. It's great. But there are times when they still roll out the DVD projector. Not enough for me to complain - I love our school and am smart enough to know you have to pick your battles. I just wish they didn't do it at all.

[Anonymous]

Ahhhhh OK

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe I missed it, but did you speak to the aftercare director? If you are paying then they should offer programs like sports box or Parkour.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you paying for aftercare???

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^
Well then make your child--instead of the Almighty $--your priority & pick your kid up after school. Or hire a babysitter who fits your liking. Aftercare is a HUGE privilege. Public Ed is the right.

Please.

I wanted leave it at "please" but I can't help myself. You can't be serious. I don't want my kids watching movies after school and so my only choice is to leave work and pick them up myself or pay a babysitter? Sorry, can't lower my expectations that low.

Not sure you needed three question marks to ask that, but yes, I'm talking about paid aftercare.

I did - brought it up with our aftercare director a few years ago, and they were very receptive and have come a long way since then. Now our aftercare offers sports, theater, STEM, all kinds of stuff. It's great. But there are times when they still roll out the DVD projector. Not enough for me to complain - I love our school and am smart enough to know you have to pick your battles. I just wish they didn't do it at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP, (16:24) it seems teachers are there to actively teach. And that's it. Any other responsibilities don't matter. If there are bums in the desk seats, the teacher should be teaching fundamentals all day every day. That is the only thing some parents are concerned with.

The rest of the responsibilities that go with teaching? Not important, and shouldn't happen while the students are in the room.

That's what I'm getting from this whole discussion.

Yeah well that's why no one in DCPS listens to what most parents have to say. You have little understanding of how things work. Even after it's been explained several times you're still deaf to what's going on. So let those in the know run things their way.

Hmm. Quoted PP here. *I* understand. My husband is a teacher. I was summing up the discussion as I understand it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh here we go with the attempts at being cute and haughty--which I find hilarious! The bottom line is that my children weren't raised in a danger zone nor subjected to failing schools. But yours are, as you lament it all and stew about it. So I totally get your anger. And the fact that you'd move into an urban area then be pissed that the schools don't cater to you allows me to understand why you can't stick to or address a topic without name calling and attempts at snobbery. The teachers are ineffective, posters who disagree are _____. But what do you call a 'parent' who subjects her kids to the shitshow that is DCPS? Better yet, one who claims their kids are safe from the dysfunction yet they're so passionate about everyone else's kids and tax dpillars? BS: You're pissed that you have to shell out $ you can't afford to send your kids to private. You're upset that your white skin doesn't make the black leaders of DC fall over to please you. I find that hysterical!

You have a gift for wild speculation and, apparently, an agenda that won't let you comprehend what most posters are saying. There is a lot of room for improvement in DCPS. Our kids are doing great despite problems with DCPS. We don't have to go private or move. Many of their classmates are not doing as well. Improving DCPS will benefit everyone. Other city services have made significant improvements in the past 20-25 years. Are you the only one in the city that doesn't want to see DCPS do the same?

Bless your heart. It seems like you mean well and really want to understand, but the Hear Only What I Want To Hear disease has gotten you.

I'd love nothing more than to see DC schools improve. But that point went right over your head.

The reality is that criticizing teachers, trying to be condescending to someone (esp knowing NOTHING of who s/he is or their accomplishment, credentials, etc) whining because a teacher showed movies--especially after it's been fully explained WHY!--will not improve the system. If you don't like the way things are going in DCPS, do better for your children!

Other services have made improvements in the past 20-25 years, you say? Great! But until DCPS does, do better for your kids. If you're willing to work to improve the school system, DO SO! But criticizing and making demands that will benefit YOUR snowflake while ignoring the reality of the other 98% in the system does no good.

DCPS is concerned with the education of ALL of its kids. However, the overwhelming majority is poor, black, traumatized, angry, and dealing with serious dysfunction at home. So what are they to do? Offer more foreign languages, more AP courses? Guess what? They've done that. But it hasn't worked. Fire and replace most of the teaching/principal corps every year? Done that too! Didn't work. Switch to a 100% organic menu? Guess what...

Understand the issues in DCPS are larger than teachers, movie-showing and not having enough white kids.

Sadly, that's true. DC could be as wealthy and white as FFX or MoCo, but the quality still wouldn't be as high. That has to do with the entrenched hiring practices of DC Municipal government where voting for the right councilmember (especially Mayor for Life Marion Barry) could get you a job without qualifications. Courtland Milloy is ready to reinstitute that practice: let's pay criminals not to be criminals, because expectations of good behavior are too high. "To curb armed stick-ups in the District, we need to beef up jobs." DC is where, for a certain set of the population, expectations come to die.

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-brazen-robbery-of-retirees-they-could-have-been-our-grandchildren/2016/07/05/413653ae-42ac-11e6-88d0-6adee48be8bc_story.html)

As long as DC teachers and DC schools are all about the bottom of the barrel in terms of hiring and programming, then even the positive forces of gentrification will still make it lag behind its potential peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yet another reason we left dcps for a charter! Do your job and teach.

Amen. We left DCPS for private and have never looked back.

[Anonymous]

What an asshole. I bet this is the highlight of your pathetic day...coming on here to knock others so you can feel better about your miserable life.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh here we go with the attempts at being cute and haughty--which I find hilarious! The bottom line is that my children weren't raised in a danger zone nor subjected to failing schools. But yours are, as you lament it all and stew about it. So I totally get your anger. And the fact that you'd move into an urban area then be pissed that the schools don't cater to you allows me to understand why you can't stick to or address a topic without name calling and attempts at snobbery. The teachers are ineffective, posters who disagree are _____. But what do you call a 'parent' who subjects her kids to the shitshow that is DCPS? Better yet, one who claims their kids are safe from the dysfunction yet they're so passionate about everyone else's kids and tax dpillars? BS: You're pissed that you have to shell out $ you can't afford to send your kids to private. You're upset that your white skin doesn't make the black leaders of DC fall over to please you. I find that hysterical!

You have a gift for wild speculation and, apparently, an agenda that won't let you comprehend what most posters are saying. There is a lot of room for improvement in DCPS. Our kids are doing great despite problems with DCPS. We don't have to go private or move. Many of their classmates are not doing as well. Improving DCPS will benefit everyone. Other city services have made significant improvements in the past 20-25 years. Are you the only one in the city that doesn't want to see DCPS do the same?

Bless your heart. It seems like you mean well and really want to understand, but the Hear Only What I Want To Hear disease has gotten you.

I'd love nothing more than to see DC schools improve. But that point went right over your head.

The reality is that criticizing teachers, trying to be condescending to someone (esp knowing NOTHING of who s/he is or their accomplishment, credentials, etc) whining because a teacher showed movies--especially after it's been fully explained WHY!--will not improve the system. If you don't like the way things are going in DCPS, do better for your children!

Other services have made improvements in the past 20-25 years, you say? Great! But until DCPS does, do better for your kids. If you're willing to work to improve the school system, DO SO! But criticizing and making demands that will benefit YOUR snowflake while ignoring the reality of the other 98% in the system does no good.

DCPS is concerned with the education of ALL of its kids. However, the overwhelming majority is poor, black, traumatized, angry, and dealing with serious dysfunction at home. So what are they to do? Offer more foreign languages, more AP courses? Guess what? They've done that. But it hasn't worked. Fire and replace most of the teaching/principal corps every year? Done that too! Didn't work. Switch to a 100% organic menu? Guess what...

Understand the issues in DCPS are larger than teachers, movie-showing and not having enough white kids.

Sadly, that's true. DC could be as wealthy and white as FFX or MoCo, but the quality still wouldn't be as high. That has to do with the entrenched hiring practices of DC Municipal government where voting for the right councilmember (especially Mayor for Life Marion Barry) could get you a job without qualifications. Courtland Milloy is ready to reinstitute that practice: let's pay criminals not to be criminals, because expectations of good behavior are too high. "To curb armed stick-ups in the District, we need to beef up jobs." DC is where, for a certain set of the population, expectations come to die.

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-brazen-robbery-of-retirees-they-could-have-been-our-grandchildren/2016/07/05/413653ae-42ac-11e6-88d0-6adee48be8bc_story.html)

As long as DC teachers and DC schools are all about the bottom of the barrel in terms of hiring and programming, then even the positive forces of gentrification will still make it lag behind its potential peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yet another reason we left dcps for a charter! Do your job and teach.

Amen. We left DCPS for private and have never looked back.

Yup, those fresh out of college Political Science TFAers are definitely more qualified to teach than the DC teachers with master degrees, certification, and years of experience. But keep holding on to that dream of yours. You'll find out soon enough that your dream was just that...an illusion.

[Anonymous]

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yet another reason we left dcps for a charter! Do your job and teach.

Amen. We left DCPS for private and have never looked back.

Yup, those fresh out of college Political Science TFAers are definitely more qualified to teach than the DC teachers with master degrees, certification, and years of experience. But keep holding on to that dream of yours. You'll find out soon enough that your dream was just that...an illusion.

TFA is the worst! They mean well when they arrive, but they are undertrained and quickly become overwhelmed. Within weeks, they are burnt out and mostly staying just to avoid unemployment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yet another reason we left dcps for a charter! Do your job and teach.

Amen. We left DCPS for private and have never looked back.

Yup, those fresh out of college Political Science TFAers are definitely more qualified to teach than the DC teachers with master degrees, certification, and years of experience. But keep holding on to that dream of yours. You'll find out soon enough that your dream was just that...an illusion.

TFA is the worst! They mean well when they arrive, but they are undertrained and quickly become overwhelmed. Within weeks, they are burnt out and mostly staying just to avoid unemployment.

True. It's really just a jobs program for well-meaning college kids. Having said that, they're still twice as intelligent as the careerists they replace in cities like DC, Baltimore, Detroit, Newark - basically all the worst cities you can imagine. DC's one advantage (despite the awful Marion Barry legacy) is that at least we have charter schools to help slam the brakes on the union bloodsuckers. Because at the end of the day, that's what all the racist and classist posturing here is about. There are old-time lazy DCPS teachers on this board who want to get away with anything and everything. And, if you complain, it's because there's something wrong with you - you're supposed to just accept their loser system.

Nah. They are over-ripe and stanky. It's time for them to go.

[Anonymous]

They really aren't. They are dependent on the "old timers" to learn everything, then within a couple of years decide they want go back to grad school for administration or go to law school. It is a gap year for them and they do nothing other than perpetuate the churn.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yet another reason we left dcps for a charter! Do your job and teach.

Amen. We left DCPS for private and have never looked back.

Yup, those fresh out of college Political Science TFAers are definitely more qualified to teach than the DC teachers with master degrees, certification, and years of experience. But keep holding on to that dream of yours. You'll find out soon enough that your dream was just that...an illusion.

TFA is the worst! They mean well when they arrive, but they are undertrained and quickly become overwhelmed. Within weeks, they are burnt out and mostly staying just to avoid unemployment.

True. It's really just a jobs program for well-meaning college kids. Having said that, they're still twice as intelligent as the careerists they replace in cities like DC, Baltimore, Detroit, Newark - basically all the worst cities you can imagine. DC's one advantage (despite the awful Marion Barry legacy) is that at least we have charter schools to help slam the brakes on the union bloodsuckers. Because at the end of the day, that's what all the racist and classist posturing here is about. There are old-time lazy DCPS teachers on this board who want to get away with anything and everything. And, if you complain, it's because there's something wrong with you - you're supposed to just accept their loser system.

Nah. They are over-ripe and stanky. It's time for them to go.

They

[Anonymous]

Are you insane? Do you really believe that "old time" DCPS teacher are here on this board? A. Most of the lazy pre-Rhee teachers are long gone. B. Others either don't know about this "board" or don't care about it. C. You don't live here, I'm pretty sure of that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yet another reason we left dcps for a charter! Do your job and teach.

Amen. We left DCPS for private and have never looked back.

Yup, those fresh out of college Political Science TFAers are definitely more qualified to teach than the DC teachers with master degrees, certification, and years of experience. But keep holding on to that dream of yours. You'll find out soon enough that your dream was just that...an illusion.

TFA is the worst! They mean well when they arrive, but they are undertrained and quickly become overwhelmed. Within weeks, they are burnt out and mostly staying just to avoid unemployment.

True. It's really just a jobs program for well-meaning college kids. Having said that, they're still twice as intelligent as the careerists they replace in cities like DC, Baltimore, Detroit, Newark - basically all the worst cities you can imagine. DC's one advantage (despite the awful Marion Barry legacy) is that at least we have charter schools to help slam the brakes on the union bloodsuckers. Because at the end of the day, that's what all the racist and classist posturing here is about. There are old-time lazy DCPS teachers on this board who want to get away with anything and everything. And, if you complain, it's because there's something wrong with you - you're supposed to just accept their loser system.

Nah. They are over-ripe and stanky. It's time for them to go.