Rescue by media—school opening

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yesssss! FOIA THE SCORES. How is there no media coverage of this theft of tax dollars? No education has been provided to my first grader.

I like this idea

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s what the WaPo should cover: Brabrand has botched reopening so badly, starting with the initial hybrid plan he couldn’t pull off and going downhill from there. And yet he gets his contract renewed, with a raise ina year teachers are frozen. How does that happen. He can’t open one of the wealthiest districts in the nation when rates are low, and he gets renewed with a raise.

I’d read that piece, because I still don’t get it.

He’s really effective at pretending to have a plan.

He has someone on his staff who can put together 15 power points. Which my Hs kid can do. With just enough detail to fit on 15 slides. And no more detail. Because he’s just going to have to come back to the next meeting and tell us he couldn’t make the details work. And present a different 15 PowerPoint slides.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yesssss! FOIA THE SCORES. How is there no media coverage of this theft of tax dollars? No education has been provided to my first grader.

This issue already went to the Virginia Supreme Court. Google Davidson versus LCPS. He was crazy enough to bring it all the way to the top!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s what the WaPo should cover: Brabrand has botched reopening so badly, starting with the initial hybrid plan he couldn’t pull off and going downhill from there. And yet he gets his contract renewed, with a raise ina year teachers are frozen. How does that happen. He can’t open one of the wealthiest districts in the nation when rates are low, and he gets renewed with a raise.

I’d read that piece, because I still don’t get it.

He’s really effective at pretending to have a plan.

He has someone on his staff who can put together 15 power points. Which my Hs kid can do. With just enough detail to fit on 15 slides. And no more detail. Because he’s just going to have to come back to the next meeting and tell us he couldn’t make the details work. And present a different 15 PowerPoint slides.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the story: pull the iready and standardized test scores. I tried to get them from the county and elem school myself and they freaked. I just wanted to see where my kid stood compared to peers.

Assistant principal was a little more direct about it "oh yeah, they don't want to give those out because there are some wild discrepancies depending on where the school is located."

They can FOIA it (freedom of information act.) Heck, we could FOIA it but they'd stall us more than WaPo and we dont have the $ or lawyers to help.

It's kinda captain obvious, but DL has completely screwed kids who dont have a stay at home parent or money to hire tutors. Not gonna be a good look for the One Fairfax crowd to be protecting a policy that has torpedoed equity for years to come.

Did you only want to see your scores or did you want to see everyone's scores? Because I sent iReady reports home to the parents with the quarter one report cards this year. You are allowed to request that. I think there was percentile data on there but I'm not 100% sure.

[Anonymous]

Most of the nurses & doctors I know want school open. Is that a story? It doesn’t help frontline workers to have their own kids out of school while they work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s what the WaPo should cover: Brabrand has botched reopening so badly, starting with the initial hybrid plan he couldn’t pull off and going downhill from there. And yet he gets his contract renewed, with a raise ina year teachers are frozen. How does that happen. He can’t open one of the wealthiest districts in the nation when rates are low, and he gets renewed with a raise.

I’d read that piece, because I still don’t get it.

He’s really effective at pretending to have a plan.

He has someone on his staff who can put together 15 power points. Which my Hs kid can do. With just enough detail to fit on 15 slides. And no more detail. Because he’s just going to have to come back to the next meeting and tell us he couldn’t make the details work. And present a different 15 PowerPoint slides.

+1000

Imshould really tell my kids to work on their PowerPoint skills. Apparently it’s how you fail upwards in life.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s what the WaPo should cover: Brabrand has botched reopening so badly, starting with the initial hybrid plan he couldn’t pull off and going downhill from there. And yet he gets his contract renewed, with a raise ina year teachers are frozen. How does that happen. He can’t open one of the wealthiest districts in the nation when rates are low, and he gets renewed with a raise.

I’d read that piece, because I still don’t get it.

He’s really effective at pretending to have a plan.

He has someone on his staff who can put together 15 power points. Which my Hs kid can do. With just enough detail to fit on 15 slides. And no more detail. Because he’s just going to have to come back to the next meeting and tell us he couldn’t make the details work. And present a different 15 PowerPoint slides.

+1000

Imshould really tell my kids to work on their PowerPoint skills. Apparently it’s how you fail upwards in life.

Now, don't we all have that one employee at work that spends the majority of their day working on PowerPoints?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the nurses & doctors I know want school open. Is that a story? It doesn’t help frontline workers to have their own kids out of school while they work.

There are LOTS of stories. Problem is, the media created this mess and isn’t interested in covering it now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Did you only want to see your scores or did you want to see everyone's scores? Because I sent iReady reports home to the parents with the quarter one report cards this year. You are allowed to request that. I think there was percentile data on there but I'm not 100% sure.

I wanted to see the range of scores across FCPS schools by grade level (obviously sans names). When the district shot me down, I asked my own school for their data so I could see how DC was doing comparatively.

They sent an explainer about why county didn't want the score ranges out there but didn't give me what I wanted. The percentile range is not included in the info that went home in the fall.

[Anonymous]

The WaPo education reporter Hanna something has done at least one puff piece on Hutchings at ACPS and reopening. I was surprised her final question wasn't "so what is it like to walk on water?".

She also followed him around for three months and never figured out that he was sending his kid to an open private school. That was broken by student reporters at the high school paper. Maybe those are the journalists you want to start with.

The incompetent then ACPS comms person (my condolences on getting that hot mess Fairfax schools!) managed to get him a press hit on CNN this fall where according to him he "addressed the nation". No hard questions there either and was allowed to serve up his usual word salad.

Bottom line, don't get starry eyed with thoughts of CNN, WaPo etc.

Start local and go from there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the nurses & doctors I know want school open. Is that a story? It doesn’t help frontline workers to have their own kids out of school while they work.

There are LOTS of stories. Problem is, the media created this mess and isn’t interested in covering it now.

The media created this mess?!? Okay, now we know you are trumpist truth rejectors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s what the WaPo should cover: Brabrand has botched reopening so badly, starting with the initial hybrid plan he couldn’t pull off and going downhill from there. And yet he gets his contract renewed, with a raise ina year teachers are frozen. How does that happen. He can’t open one of the wealthiest districts in the nation when rates are low, and he gets renewed with a raise.

I’d read that piece, because I still don’t get it.

Maybe Combining forces with Arlington will help. Same situation with Duran in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Maybe you all should stop living your lives as though nothing is different. No sports, no playdates, sleepovers, dinners out at restaurants, no traveling, no getting together indoors with friends and family. YOU are in control of these numbers.

[Anonymous]

Folks, just face facts. It's a lost school year. Regroup for September.