Oh Dcps headquarters...
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Anonymous
But Robert White, Elissa Silverman, Janeese Lewis George, and Christina Henderson all obstructed reopening and White and JLG are still working hard to prevent fully reopening. Don't forget the SBOE reps who obstructed reopening too, such as Frazier O'Leary who was opposed to any school reopenings in February because he believes schools should remain closed. He's a former WTU member and is still very pro WTU. The last thing we want to do is give those SBOE reps even more power via the pro-WTU legislation proposed by George and JLG. |
Anonymous
Fellow Deal parent here and Neal needs to go. This is a spite plan she developed when forced to reopen in some way despite her vocal support for WTU's efforts to keep schools closed. We need a Principal who reflects the school community, not bending the school community to the will of a misguided Principal. |
Anonymous
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What Deal is offering is the only option available to principals. Hardy has the same system and very other middle and high school I believe. At the elementary school level, our experience is similar to previous posters: the prinicipal appears to be blocking reopening. I believe that he wants to maintain a similar system throughout the school. Only through a room parent classroom petition with the teacher on board did one classroom reopen. Otherwise, he receives many individual complaints and provides no meaningful response. Please email principals and also mayor/DC Council. Schools should submit new reopening plans that maximize in person learning. Specials teachers should return to in-person learning with students having the same special a few days in a row if necessary, and students should have full schooldays. Also, there needs to be a removal of the cohorts can't mix rule for middle and high schoolers and an obligation on the part of schools to send students back. We need a plan to bring back aftercare too. Our child does not attend aftercare, but the lack of aftercare is a barrier to many families. The more we advocate the more certain the fall will be normal. For the fall, they are currently talking about sending a recording of each classroom to distance learners, which still sounds like an imposition on schools/teachers for children who qualify as at risk. My middle schooler is experiencing a "live" teacher who is in fact teaching online to kids at home and at school, and the quality is no different from distance learning.
Here are some decision makers you might want to include when writing in addition to your principal. lewis.ferebee@dc.gov, laquandra.nesbitt@dc.gov, ankoor.shah@dc.gov, pmendelson@dccouncil.us, kmcduffie@dccouncil.us, abonds@dccouncil.us, esilverman@dccouncil.us, rwhite@dccouncil.us, chenderson@dccouncil.us, bnadeau@dccouncil.us, bpinto@dccouncil.us, dgrosso@dccouncil.us, mcheh@dccouncil.us, jlewisgeorge@dccouncil.us, vgray@dccouncil.us, twhite@dccouncil.us, callen@dccouncil.us, eom@dc.gov, dme@dc.gov, doh@dc.gov, sboe@dc.gov, Shana.Young@dc.gov |
Anonymous
| https://dcps.dc.gov/page/instructional-superintendents This page shows the supervisor of each principal. |
Anonymous
Have you ever been on a principal panel? You should be happy with what you have. The alternative will probably be far far worse. |
Anonymous
Amen to that. Neal is great for Deal. You may not like how things are going during an unprecedented global pandemic, but count your blessings. |
Anonymous
He reversed after the damage was already done. |
Anonymous
How are they still obstructing reopening? |
Anonymous
Though she has been less than ideal for our particular family, I think she does a very good job at Deal. |
Anonymous
Too bad that Ferebee fired excellent principal Richard Trogisch from Walls, then, no? Good organizations find and retain talent. It’s probably the MOST important job of an organization like DCPS Central. If they’re doing a bad job of this they’re totally failing in their mission. |
Anonymous
For anti-union trolls, there’s still some mileage to be obtained by insulting progressive council members and calling them pro-union. |
Anonymous
Ok, considering that schools are still closed due to the union and supporters, it’s hardly trolling. |
Anonymous
| It is very difficult for DCPS to recruit good principals. Very few strong candidates from outside the area are interested because they have yearly contracts and they know what a mess DCPS is. Randomly firing principals like Trogosch doesn’t help as word gets around. Principals who want to keep their job know they need to tow the line with Central Office. Principal Neal may have issues but she is probably way better than most alternative candidates. It tends to be a bit easier to find ES principals compared with middle and high school principals |
Anonymous
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DCPS has a hybrid school return model. Many kids are back in person.
DCPS does not have a fully normal in-person schedule BECAUSE THERE IS A FREAKING PANDEMIC. With cases that are not zero, some variants arising, and kids that are not vaccinated. I’m sorry for the posters that care only about their own kids and not the rest of us. (Or I suppose some might be trolls that dislike unions.) There is a still a pandemic. We can’t just pretend its 2019 for gods sake. |
Anonymous
This is the biggest problem with DCPS, and the biggest failing of DCPS Central and of the Chancellor. Talent matters. Good principals matter. This is the DCPS organizational failure. |