Bower's top education aide sends his kids to 100 percent open private school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK, so the guy elects to send his kids to private school. Bowser supports him. She's won the last two elections. What can we do about it, other than try to prevent her from winning again? Nothing. Wealthy people in this city, the types who earn 200K plus, almost always send their kids to private schools. That's the way it's always been, and, presumably, always will be. Move on.

Sorry, WTU troll. Maybe you should move on to another thread -- like one of those where teachers pretend they work on Wednesdays.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand this. It’s not like the Bowser admin hasn’t been trying to negotiate with the WTU to get kids back in school.

[Anonymous]

I’m so angry and disgusted. I just can’t anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this. It’s not like the Bowser admin hasn’t been trying to negotiate with the WTU to get kids back in school.

I dont get the sense that the Bowser administration actually cares all that much whether schools are open or closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK, so the guy elects to send his kids to private school. Bowser supports him. She's won the last two elections. What can we do about it, other than try to prevent her from winning again? Nothing. Wealthy people in this city, the types who earn 200K plus, almost always send their kids to private schools. That's the way it's always been, and, presumably, always will be. Move on.

Families who earn $200k do not spend $92k after taxes on private school.

Also, if you want to be in charge of PUBLIC schools, you have no business doing so if your own children are too good for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The highest-ranking education official in D.C., Deputy Mayor for Education Paul Kihn, sends his own children to the private Washington International School, which — with the mayor’s support — long ago reopened, along with the city’s other elite private schools.

How can the deputy mayor for education empathize with DCPS families?

The mayor somehow finds leadership and flexibility when it benefits the city’s elite private schools. Independent schools are exempt from the D.C. Health Department’s mandate of six feet of separation and limited cohort groups of 11 children for in-person learning."

Guess your anger and hatred make you incapable of understanding what empathy is? By your theory I can't possibly understand someone else's pain unless I have personally experienced it.

You guys have all gone off the deep end. There are legitimate questions to be asked here; the cheap, personal attacks are neither factually correct nor advancing your cause.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"The highest-ranking education official in D.C., Deputy Mayor for Education Paul Kihn, sends his own children to the private Washington International School, which — with the mayor’s support — long ago reopened, along with the city’s other elite private schools.

How can the deputy mayor for education empathize with DCPS families?

The mayor somehow finds leadership and flexibility when it benefits the city’s elite private schools. Independent schools are exempt from the D.C. Health Department’s mandate of six feet of separation and limited cohort groups of 11 children for in-person learning."

Guess your anger and hatred make you incapable of understanding what empathy is? By your theory I can't possibly understand someone else's pain unless I have personally experienced it.

You guys have all gone off the deep end. There are legitimate questions to be asked here; the cheap, personal attacks are neither factually correct nor advancing your cause.

And you connection to Kihn is what? Friend? Family? Colleague?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this. It’s not like the Bowser admin hasn’t been trying to negotiate with the WTU to get kids back in school.

There should be no negotiations at this point. They go back by x date or they’re fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK, so the guy elects to send his kids to private school. Bowser supports him. She's won the last two elections. What can we do about it, other than try to prevent her from winning again? Nothing. Wealthy people in this city, the types who earn 200K plus, almost always send their kids to private schools. That's the way it's always been, and, presumably, always will be. Move on.

($200k usually isn’t enough income to do private school)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course he has his kids in private. This is a surprise how?

I think the issue is that he is preventing tens of thousands of children from getting an education, because it is supposedly not safe for kids to be in school, and yet his own children have been in school every day this entire time.

Yes! This is so true. You shouldn't be allowed to take the job if your kids don't attend public. He could have moved in boundary for LaFayette or another upper NW school.

[Anonymous]

Alexandria’s superintendent is the same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, if his kids were already enrolled and doing well, you think he should pull them from their school and put them in their neighborhood school because one parent changed their job? I can see an argument for that, although I don't necessarily agree with it. Any of you critics ever done something similar?

He shouldn't have run for this office if he had already personally opted out of the system he was supposed to lead.

Perhaps he recognizes that private schools are doing a better job educating kids and wants to help bridge the gap by helping DCPS catch up. Nothing wrong with this.

He moved to DC for the job, so his kids enrolled in private at the same time as he started as DME.

When he was asked about it when he took the job he said it was about having a strong bilingual education. So he must be unimpressed with the bilingual options in DCPS

[Anonymous]

Pretty sure the entire city council also sends their kids to private, except for Charles Allen (JO Wilson) and maybe Robert White?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK, so the guy elects to send his kids to private school. Bowser supports him. She's won the last two elections. What can we do about it, other than try to prevent her from winning again? Nothing. Wealthy people in this city, the types who earn 200K plus, almost always send their kids to private schools. That's the way it's always been, and, presumably, always will be. Move on.

I think it's another argument to end mayoral control - the people in charge are insulated by . . . the results of the Democratic primary for mayor several years ago and accountable to no one, really, except on appropriations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OK, so the guy elects to send his kids to private school. Bowser supports him. She's won the last two elections. What can we do about it, other than try to prevent her from winning again? Nothing. Wealthy people in this city, the types who earn 200K plus, almost always send their kids to private schools. That's the way it's always been, and, presumably, always will be. Move on.

Sorry, WTU troll. Maybe you should move on to another thread -- like one of those where teachers pretend they work on Wednesdays.

I'm the troll, and I can't stand the WTU. We're leaving DCPS after this school year, 8 years in. But the harsh reality is that we all chose to enroll our children in public schools in a city where Mayor control of education is the rule. Bowser has almost total control our the District's ed sector l and she appointed a Deputy Mayor who sends his kid to private school. I'm not impressed with her anymore than I am with him, the WTU, OSSE, or DCPS as a whole.