Letter from Cancellor re moving schools - opps - I got caught moving my kid?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is one of the many reasons why I've never felt an ounce of guilt about cheating the boundary process.

Well, you should, because the people you are cheating are not the ones who did wrong here.

If it’s good enough for the Chancellor and Deputy Mayor to find it acceptable, then I’m completely fine with my choices. Maybe I’ll get caught like they did, but I doubt it.

So you are fine with yourself being a dishonest person just because people in positions of power also do it? Yikes. Who else do you look to for moral inspiration?

You’re hurting your children by impairing their sense of right and wrong. That is something that cannot be supplied to them by any school.

Tell that to the Mayor and Chancellor. I'm fine with my choices.

Is that why you feel the need to confess your choices on an anonymous message board? Don’t kid yourself: you diminish yourself in your child’s eyes by being a cheater and a liar.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

it’s cute you think third graders know or care about this stuff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of pressure must Wilson’s wife have applied to the deputy mayor for her to essentially compromise her reputation forever? The DM has to have known that this situation would be discovered. The wife must have held something over her head right?

I'm amazed it went on as long as it did. I'm sure the first time the kid walked through the doors at Wilson there were raised eyebrows.

But don’t kids move in and out of the schools all year long? Not sure general public would have known. They might have thought she was on a waitlist and a space opened up...

Not at WOTP schools. They're like roach motels in reverse, kids move out but they don't move in, because of the way the lottery works. If you spend any time on these boards you know that a lot of parents are hyper-aware of suspected cheats.

And the response from DCPS to suspected cheating is "call the tip hotline." Maybe somebody did just that.

[Anonymous]

It’s a Shakespearean fall from grace. He single handily managed to tear open some of the worst wounds in this city.

Abandon long suffering EOTP families who have bad school options. Check.

Thumb your nose at WOTP families who suffer from overcrowded schools. Check.

Continue the tradition of corruption in DCPS. Check.

Bonus points for drawing attention the citiy’s most wasteful school spending decisions at Ellington. Check.

This took real talent. In less than a year no less. They will be talking about this for years!

[Anonymous]

Independent auditor Kathy Patternson (also former council member) first (and only) city official to say Wilson should be fired

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/city-desk/article/20992986/dc-auditor-says-schools-chancellor-antwan-wilson-should-be-fired

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a Shakespearean fall from grace. He single handily managed to tear open some of the worst wounds in this city.

Abandon long suffering EOTP families who have bad school options. Check.

Thumb your nose at WOTP families who suffer from overcrowded schools. Check.

Continue the tradition of corruption in DCPS. Check.

Bonus points for drawing attention the citiy’s most wasteful school spending decisions at Ellington. Check.

This took real talent. In less than a year no less. They will be talking about this for years!

None of that is as bad as doing exactly what your predecessor had her tenure tainted by immediately after re-writing the rule to prevent doing what you did. It's inconceivably stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a Shakespearean fall from grace. He single handily managed to tear open some of the worst wounds in this city.

Abandon long suffering EOTP families who have bad school options. Check.

Thumb your nose at WOTP families who suffer from overcrowded schools. Check.

Continue the tradition of corruption in DCPS. Check.

Bonus points for drawing attention the citiy’s most wasteful school spending decisions at Ellington. Check.

This took real talent. In less than a year no less. They will be talking about this for years!

None of that is as bad as doing exactly what your predecessor had her tenure tainted by immediately after re-writing the rule to prevent doing what you did. It's inconceivably stupid.

I know. This story is so screwed up. The arrogance and entitlement of the guy. And pure cluelessness. With such credentials his time as chancellor would not have been fruitful, surely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Independent auditor Kathy Patternson (also former council member) first (and only) city official to say Wilson should be fired

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/city-desk/article/20992986/dc-auditor-says-schools-chancellor-antwan-wilson-should-be-fired

Patterson is surely missed on the Council. I wish she would run for Council chair again.

[Anonymous]

The least we can do right now is email our council member and express our discontent and lack of confidence in the guy. Just talking here in this forum ain't going to cut it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The least we can do right now is email our council member and express our discontent and lack of confidence in the guy. Just talking here in this forum ain't going to cut it.

I did (B Todd). But oddly only Silverman is commenting right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The least we can do right now is email our council member and express our discontent and lack of confidence in the guy. Just talking here in this forum ain't going to cut it.

I think what we should email our council members is how sick we the constituents are of the corruption and ‘favors’ and ‘who knows who’ attitude of so many dc officials. Ever since we moved here a few years ago we’ve heard people bragging about getting favors from parking tickets, car registration woes, and particularly the school choice issue. If dc government officials, whether elected or appointed, looked at their actions as reflections of their office and their character, maybe we could trust them to do right by the people they serve. So sick of the low license plate number games people play in this city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a Shakespearean fall from grace. He single handily managed to tear open some of the worst wounds in this city.

Abandon long suffering EOTP families who have bad school options. Check.

Thumb your nose at WOTP families who suffer from overcrowded schools. Check.

Continue the tradition of corruption in DCPS. Check.

Bonus points for drawing attention the citiy’s most wasteful school spending decisions at Ellington. Check.

This took real talent. In less than a year no less. They will be talking about this for years!

He also checks a box for casting suspicion on Ellington admissions process.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The least we can do right now is email our council member and express our discontent and lack of confidence in the guy. Just talking here in this forum ain't going to cut it.

I did (B Todd). But oddly only Silverman is commenting right now.

No way Todd will say anything on this unless it's wait for the investigation and I support the mayor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The least we can do right now is email our council member and express our discontent and lack of confidence in the guy. Just talking here in this forum ain't going to cut it.

I did (B Todd). But oddly only Silverman is commenting right now.

No way Todd will say anything on this unless it's wait for the investigation and I support the mayor.

I know, but giving him a piece of my mind anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of pressure must Wilson’s wife have applied to the deputy mayor for her to essentially compromise her reputation forever? The DM has to have known that this situation would be discovered. The wife must have held something over her head right?

I'm amazed it went on as long as it did. I'm sure the first time the kid walked through the doors at Wilson there were raised eyebrows.

But don’t kids move in and out of the schools all year long? Not sure general public would have known. They might have thought she was on a waitlist and a space opened up...

Not at WOTP schools. They're like roach motels in reverse, kids move out but they don't move in, because of the way the lottery works. If you spend any time on these boards you know that a lot of parents are hyper-aware of suspected cheats.

And the response from DCPS to suspected cheating is "call the tip hotline." Maybe somebody did just that.

Parents call the tip hotline and, as a result, sometimes succeed in getting suspected cheaters investigated and busted. How would you prefer to have the investigations work? Vigilante parents playing CSI run the show?

Parents being "hyper-aware of suspected cheats" can mean that innocent in-boundary families, and those who lottery in OOB, are harassed as the targets of whispering campaigns and downright stalking. I can point to a couple of recent cases at our DCPS.

We are friends with an in-boundary single mom who is quietly renting out her home while renting a studio apt, also in-boundary. Other parents gossip about her without knowing, or perhaps caring, that she does this because she lost her job and has had difficulty finding another that pays well.