ugh - michelle rhee on daily show tonight

[Anonymous]

UGH! Not sure if it was a rerun or new but I was shocked that Jon Stewart fed her such easy, soft-ball questions. No mention of cheating, or anything. Gross.

[Anonymous]

Why the hate for Michelle Rhee? Thanks to her we have good charter school options in our city. She didn't cheat -- the cheaters were lazy, bad teachers who should have been fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the hate for Michelle Rhee? Thanks to her we have good charter school options in our city. She didn't cheat -- the cheaters were lazy, bad teachers who should have been fired.

Or rewarded with bonuses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the hate for Michelle Rhee? Thanks to her we have good charter school options in our city. She didn't cheat -- the cheaters were lazy, bad teachers who should have been fired.

What planet are you from? Rhee was in charge of DCPS, period, and had nothing to do with charters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the hate for Michelle Rhee? Thanks to her we have good charter school options in our city. She didn't cheat -- the cheaters were lazy, bad teachers who should have been fired.

She diverted funds and energy from the public schools and made charters a necessary evil. Have fun forcing your kid to go do immersion chinese because it's the only option you got into, but your in-bounds sucks. Have fun being the kid whose mom DIDn't break her back to get into a charter.

Oh, wait, you think charters work for every kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the hate for Michelle Rhee? Thanks to her we have good charter school options in our city. She didn't cheat -- the cheaters were lazy, bad teachers who should have been fired.

She diverted funds and energy from the public schools and made charters a necessary evil. Have fun forcing your kid to go do immersion chinese because it's the only option you got into, but your in-bounds sucks. Have fun being the kid whose mom DIDn't break her back to get into a charter.

Oh, wait, you think charters work for every kid.

Diverted funds and energy from DCPS to where? DCPS was the only thing she was in charge of.

[Anonymous]

OP - that was a new episode. And FWIW, I think Jon Stewart asked good questions, but then tolerated Rhee's super vague answers.

[Anonymous]

She's hawking her book because there's no way she'll get a billion dollar PAC going.

Why doesn't she just open her own damn charter and then she can show the rest of us how it's done.

Only half joking. Seriously, I wish she could use her celebrity for some practical use.

She's the Sarah Palin of school reform.

[Anonymous]

She gets too much attention. I think her book comes out today or soemthing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She's hawking her book because there's no way she'll get a billion dollar PAC going.

Why doesn't she just open her own damn charter and then she can show the rest of us how it's done.

Only half joking. Seriously, I wish she could use her celebrity for some practical use.

She's the Sarah Palin of school reform.

If this is true, perhaps Rhee's supporters will do what Palin's supporters (FOX News) have done, and send her packing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She's hawking her book because there's no way she'll get a billion dollar PAC going.

Why doesn't she just open her own damn charter and then she can show the rest of us how it's done.

Only half joking. Seriously, I wish she could use her celebrity for some practical use.

She's the Sarah Palin of school reform.

Couldn't agree more!

[Anonymous]

I miss her. If we can forgive and forget Marion Barry we can welcome back Michelle with open arms.

[Anonymous]

She's the Sarah Palin of school reform.

i love this! totally true! she was all style, no substance. tolerated a culture of cheating to goose scores. she has no resume to speak of, yet people act like she is the 2d coming. she QUIT before grey fired her (rather than compromise any of her dogmatic beliefs) then boo-hooed about how much she loved DC. she's a phoney. glad i missed that episode.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I miss her. If we can forgive and forget Marion Barry we can welcome back Michelle with open arms.

Remember, she's the one who quit.

[Anonymous]

Another shout out to Rhee. She got the ball rolling.