SWW Principal Removed - Reason Unknown

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Why would Grosso not sign? That says a lot. Or release his own letter as Ed Chair if he does not agree with the letter.

He's not the chair of the ed committee anymore. Mendo stripped him of the role awhile back because of Grosso's utter incompetence.

Yes. There’s a pretty good chance that there are another two CMs that sign this letter in a few months: Janeese Lewis George and Lazere/Henderson/Batchelor.

Plus I’m surprised Nadeau isn’t on this. She’s a gettable vote.

This is 7 CMs, a majority. And it could be 10 (!) very soon.
Could be a totally new day for the mayor and for DCPS.

I believe she’s on maternity leave. They may not have been able to get her approval in time to get the letter out fast enough.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm torn on all of this. Part of me wants the principal reinstated (assuming he was removed because he's a squeaky wheel). But part of me will be patently offended if these parents get their way and the J.O. community was shut out. That would be yet another in a long series of events where affluent white people get their way and brown people at Title 1 schools get told to sit down and shut up.

Also noteworthy that Charles Allen had no problem co-signing that letter but was virtually silent when the J.O principal was forced out mid-year. Maybe his love of black lives hadn't yet crystalized?

Ohhh sweetheart.
You are still looking for evidence to see if DCPS caters to nice white parents?
You’ve got a few more bumps ahead of you.

I will say that the JOW situation was hard to actually do something about once the Principal quit right after being non-renewed, and then he actually didn’t want to be reinstated and immediately took a charter job. Also, being let go part way though Term 1 is definitely a more problematic thing, as a general matter, than being non-renewed. I doubt the Council would have gotten so publicly involved if this principal was merely non-renewed on the normal schedule.

I think going forward all the schools need to have each others’ back on things like this. Solidarity.

The JOW is so different. Please stop comparing.

There are no families who have kids at both schools. So there is no way anyone knows the issues at both schools. But I love your certainty. People like you who think your issue is more important or more special or that if anyone else has a problem it somehow minimizes your pain are infuriating. You allow the divide and conquer.

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PP is showing how little they know about the JOW situation.

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EmpowerED is organizing parents and teachers to end mayoral control.

https://www.weareempowered.org/end-mayoral-control.html

With the number of councilmembers signing this letter and the new at-large seat changing, it seems like there’s a shot at making that happen.

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Ps a large organized group of parents and teachers on the same side is a nightmare for charter school advocates, who typically rely on division to prevent unionization. Since unionization hurts the charter CEO and charter management firms’ investors’ bottom line.)

So look for charter types to push back against this EmpowerED effort, and to try to stir up more division between parents and teachers here.

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Anonymous wrote:EmpowerED is organizing parents and teachers to end mayoral control.

https://www.weareempowered.org/end-mayoral-control.html

With the number of councilmembers signing this letter and the new at-large seat changing, it seems like there’s a shot at making that happen.

I wish they had more details here. Given how the union has behaved, I will not sign on to anything that might give them any sort of veto power. They say models are coming, but I think those models are actually necessary to see in order to know which direction this is going in.

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Anonymous wrote:Ps a large organized group of parents and teachers on the same side is a nightmare for charter school advocates, who typically rely on division to prevent unionization. Since unionization hurts the charter CEO and charter management firms’ investors’ bottom line.)

So look for charter types to push back against this EmpowerED effort, and to try to stir up more division between parents and teachers here.

This is so hard, because the only group that has behaved worse than they mayor in the WTU. I actually think they sort of backed the mayor into a corner where no in person was possible. I don’t want the present plan, but I think the mayor and WTU share the blame for it.

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There is a post opinion piece today on the Walls principal debacle excoriating the mayor. I will try to find a link to post. Seems like he was fired for raising the alarm on his school not being adequately ventilated. Not exactly shocking given how DCPS operates

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Anonymous wrote:EmpowerED is organizing parents and teachers to end mayoral control.

https://www.weareempowered.org/end-mayoral-control.html

With the number of councilmembers signing this letter and the new at-large seat changing, it seems like there’s a shot at making that happen.

I cannot think of a worse time to decentralize control of the schools. We need a strong hand to reopen.

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Anonymous wrote:Ps a large organized group of parents and teachers on the same side is a nightmare for charter school advocates, who typically rely on division to prevent unionization. Since unionization hurts the charter CEO and charter management firms’ investors’ bottom line.)

So look for charter types to push back against this EmpowerED effort, and to try to stir up more division between parents and teachers here.

Oh ffs. Stop with your paranoia. It does not actually help your cause. I love our IB DCPS, but trying to inject more “voices” into the current situation sounds like a complete nightmare. Do you really want to turn school reopenings into a DC sh*t-show like the ANCs?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a post opinion piece today on the Walls principal debacle excoriating the mayor. I will try to find a link to post. Seems like he was fired for raising the alarm on his school not being adequately ventilated. Not exactly shocking given how DCPS operates

If there were admissions anomalies, I don’t care what straw broke the camel’s back. He still deserves to go.

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Anonymous wrote:Ps a large organized group of parents and teachers on the same side is a nightmare for charter school advocates, who typically rely on division to prevent unionization. Since unionization hurts the charter CEO and charter management firms’ investors’ bottom line.)

So look for charter types to push back against this EmpowerED effort, and to try to stir up more division between parents and teachers here.

Oh ffs. Stop with your paranoia. It does not actually help your cause. I love our IB DCPS, but trying to inject more “voices” into the current situation sounds like a complete nightmare. Do you really want to turn school reopenings into a DC sh*t-show like the ANCs?

Reopening schools is already a DC sh*t-show.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:EmpowerED is organizing parents and teachers to end mayoral control.

https://www.weareempowered.org/end-mayoral-control.html

With the number of councilmembers signing this letter and the new at-large seat changing, it seems like there’s a shot at making that happen.

I wish they had more details here. Given how the union has behaved, I will not sign on to anything that might give them any sort of veto power. They say models are coming, but I think those models are actually necessary to see in order to know which direction this is going in.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m a parent and I think the union did everything right. I love my kids’ teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:Ps a large organized group of parents and teachers on the same side is a nightmare for charter school advocates, who typically rely on division to prevent unionization. Since unionization hurts the charter CEO and charter management firms’ investors’ bottom line.)

So look for charter types to push back against this EmpowerED effort, and to try to stir up more division between parents and teachers here.

This is so hard, because the only group that has behaved worse than they mayor in the WTU. I actually think they sort of backed the mayor into a corner where no in person was possible. I don’t want the present plan, but I think the mayor and WTU share the blame for it.

Every DCPS parent I know thinks the WTU did the right thing. The only people I hear railing against the DC union are my conservative acquaintances in NoVA.

Must be a coincidence.

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This white man broke the same law that the black man broke. It is the same issue. Why treat them differently?