Joe Weedon wants permission to send his daughter to Walls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know the guy and I have not followed his criticism of families for going charter (and I do not agree with the criticism of such families - we are all doing the best we can for our kids) but his daughter is going to a DCPS school, not a charter. The application schools are part of the system that he has tried to support. Has he advocated for getting rid of the application High schools? That is an option that is available to all students city wide.

I get that he is apparently annoyingly self-promoting, I just don’t see the huge hypocrisy if his daughter is attending dcps.

He is for inbound school OR DEATH!!! Or public shaming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Joe Weedon once called me a traitor for sending my kid to a charter school. He sucks. He’s a total hypocrite. Glad to see him finally exposed. Love that he plays with other kids, but when his snowflake wants to go elsewhere....that’s “special circumstances”

What an a-hole.

Amen!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know the guy and I have not followed his criticism of families for going charter (and I do not agree with the criticism of such families - we are all doing the best we can for our kids) but his daughter is going to a DCPS school, not a charter. The application schools are part of the system that he has tried to support. Has he advocated for getting rid of the application High schools? That is an option that is available to all students city wide.

I get that he is apparently annoyingly self-promoting, I just don’t see the huge hypocrisy if his daughter is attending dcps.

Yes. He previously said that charters AND the DCPS application schools are bad because they pull students out of their neighborhood schools.

Yes exactly. This is why we are so upset.

I know Joe Weedon and he has never said this to me. He also knows that I lotteried outside of my IB school and still provided assistance when I needed it (this is when he was my SBOE rep). He never gave me grief about it. I have heard him criticize the proliferation of charter schools and that the lack of planning and coordinating with DCPS has hurt neighborhood schools. But that's very different than saying, "all charters are bad." I will also note that he has criticized DCPS just as much as the charter sector. He's just being an advocate for students. I don't understand the hate presented on this thread.

It’s DCUM, Jake.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know the guy and I have not followed his criticism of families for going charter (and I do not agree with the criticism of such families - we are all doing the best we can for our kids) but his daughter is going to a DCPS school, not a charter. The application schools are part of the system that he has tried to support. Has he advocated for getting rid of the application High schools? That is an option that is available to all students city wide.

I get that he is apparently annoyingly self-promoting, I just don’t see the huge hypocrisy if his daughter is attending dcps.

Yes. He previously said that charters AND the DCPS application schools are bad because they pull students out of their neighborhood schools.

Yes exactly. This is why we are so upset.

I know Joe Weedon and he has never said this to me. He also knows that I lotteried outside of my IB school and still provided assistance when I needed it (this is when he was my SBOE rep). He never gave me grief about it. I have heard him criticize the proliferation of charter schools and that the lack of planning and coordinating with DCPS has hurt neighborhood schools. But that's very different than saying, "all charters are bad." I will also note that he has criticized DCPS just as much as the charter sector. He's just being an advocate for students. I don't understand the hate presented on this thread.

It’s DCUM, Jake.

I don't know the other posters but Joe (and Amy) definitely said negative things to me when we moved to private. I suspect mostly because I was an active Ward 6 public school parent (PTA/LSAT/CHPSPO). It wasn't subtle, their reactions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Totally agree that Weedon has been very intolerant and judgmental over the years, both personally and as an elected official. And the WaPo story about how they have agonized over their high school decision was too much.

But is this thread going to live on until the daughter graduates from SWW?

probably. This place is a cesspool of discontent and anxiety.

This thread is the most compelling evidence yet that DCUM gives you brain worms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Joe Weedon once called me a traitor for sending my kid to a charter school. He sucks. He’s a total hypocrite. Glad to see him finally exposed. Love that he plays with other kids, but when his snowflake wants to go elsewhere....that’s “special circumstances”

What an a-hole.

He used those specific words? You must know a very different Joe Weedon than I do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Joe Weedon once called me a traitor for sending my kid to a charter school. He sucks. He’s a total hypocrite. Glad to see him finally exposed. Love that he plays with other kids, but when his snowflake wants to go elsewhere....that’s “special circumstances”

What an a-hole.

He used those specific words? You must know a very different Joe Weedon than I do.

Well, the direct quote was "Oh, that's too bad." but we all know what that means!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Joe Weedon once called me a traitor for sending my kid to a charter school. He sucks. He’s a total hypocrite. Glad to see him finally exposed. Love that he plays with other kids, but when his snowflake wants to go elsewhere....that’s “special circumstances”

What an a-hole.

He used those specific words? You must know a very different Joe Weedon than I do.

Well, the direct quote was "Oh, that's too bad." but we all know what that means!!!

Oh for the love of god. You've got to be kidding me. You got "traitor" from "that's too bad"? SMDH.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Joe Weedon once called me a traitor for sending my kid to a charter school. He sucks. He’s a total hypocrite. Glad to see him finally exposed. Love that he plays with other kids, but when his snowflake wants to go elsewhere....that’s “special circumstances”

What an a-hole.

He used those specific words? You must know a very different Joe Weedon than I do.

Well, the direct quote was "Oh, that's too bad." but we all know what that means!!!

Oh for the love of god. You've got to be kidding me. You got "traitor" from "that's too bad"? SMDH.

You don't tell someone where your child goes to school and have them reply "oh, that's too bad" unless they're an a-hole. More common is, "oh...do you like it?" (with a tone of, how can you possibly send your kid there, and usually said about the DCPS not a charter).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Joe Weedon once called me a traitor for sending my kid to a charter school. He sucks. He’s a total hypocrite. Glad to see him finally exposed. Love that he plays with other kids, but when his snowflake wants to go elsewhere....that’s “special circumstances”

What an a-hole.

He used those specific words? You must know a very different Joe Weedon than I do.

Well, the direct quote was "Oh, that's too bad." but we all know what that means!!!

Oh for the love of god. You've got to be kidding me. You got "traitor" from "that's too bad"? SMDH.

New poster- “that’s too bad” absolutely means traitor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Joe Weedon once called me a traitor for sending my kid to a charter school. He sucks. He’s a total hypocrite. Glad to see him finally exposed. Love that he plays with other kids, but when his snowflake wants to go elsewhere....that’s “special circumstances”

What an a-hole.

He used those specific words? You must know a very different Joe Weedon than I do.

Well, the direct quote was "Oh, that's too bad." but we all know what that means!!!

Oh for the love of god. You've got to be kidding me. You got "traitor" from "that's too bad"? SMDH.

You don't tell someone where your child goes to school and have them reply "oh, that's too bad" unless they're an a-hole. More common is, "oh...do you like it?" (with a tone of, how can you possibly send your kid there, and usually said about the DCPS not a charter).

Equally bad and just more passive aggressive. I've heard that kind of response for both DCPS and charters fwiw. But you tend to hear it more from people outside of DC (either suburbs or non-DMV residents) than from DC public school parents.

[Anonymous]

Joe toed the CHPSPO line and supported the CHPSPO modus operandi - be judgemental and holier than thou about this complex and messy issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Joe toed the CHPSPO line and supported the CHPSPO modus operandi - be judgemental and holier than thou about this complex and messy issue.

amen I attended one CHPSPO meeting and I could tell I was unwanted

The irony is almost everyone there bails on the neighborhood school system at some point but if you mention even thinking about it you are treated as a piranha

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Joe toed the CHPSPO line and supported the CHPSPO modus operandi - be judgemental and holier than thou about this complex and messy issue.

amen I attended one CHPSPO meeting and I could tell I was unwanted

The irony is almost everyone there bails on the neighborhood school system at some point but if you mention even thinking about it you are treated as a piranha

I wonder what they think of Joe now since he has basically turned his back on everything they supposedly stand for

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Joe toed the CHPSPO line and supported the CHPSPO modus operandi - be judgemental and holier than thou about this complex and messy issue.

amen I attended one CHPSPO meeting and I could tell I was unwanted

The irony is almost everyone there bails on the neighborhood school system at some point but if you mention even thinking about it you are treated as a piranha

Do you mean pariah? Not sure what being treated like a piranha would look like.