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

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If the mayor were smart, she would get out front of this and call for an elected school board that would hire a superintendent.

It sounds crazy, but honestly mayoral control of schools is a losing proposition. It will take 2-3 generations, best case, to truly improve schools. In the meantime it is going to be very slow, incremental progress. The mayor should wash her hands of it, and focus on economic development and such.

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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.

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.

PP here. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the way the tip hotline works. Just trying to point out that it wouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to uncover this cheating.

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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.

NP: I agree with the PP who's calling you immoral. Yes, people with power usually do get away with cheating. Many of them cheated to get the power that allows them to cheat more and get away with it.

But not only does that NOT make the cheating ok, it also still hurts people who are NOT benefitting from the cheating. You're not just in a competition for spots with all the cheaters, although it would be GREAT if there was a "Cheaters lottery" and "Following the Rules Folks" lottery, of course with the quality spots in the "Follow the Rules" lottery.

Anyway, from the sound of it you don't really care what anyone on an anonymous message board thinks of your cheating, but you are just as low and undeserving as all the cheaters. And I do believe in karma, although it's too bad it doesn't arrive with a label on it that says "This is happening to you because you cheated to get your kids school slots", because then people would understand a lot more of the consequences...

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Anonymous wrote:I make $30k, zoned for Wilson and I don't want my kid going to Wilson. He risks his career to send his kid there. What am I missing?

Not the point of this thread, but you are missing that Wilson is a good school that produces successful kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would it be wrong to confirm if his daughter went through the application and audition process at Ellington?

It wouldn't be. I objected to the quotes around her "art" and also to the characterization of Henderson's children as "spawn." These are children. You are presumably adults. Act like it.

Bravo PP, totally agree!

The concern about admissions processes is totally valid, but the nasty smug judgemental comments about people's children is uncalled for and makes you look incredibly petty.

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Anonymous wrote:I make $30k, zoned for Wilson and I don't want my kid going to Wilson. He risks his career to send his kid there. What am I missing?

Not the point of this thread, but you are missing that Wilson is a good school that produces successful kids.

For goodness sake, Warren Buffet graduated from Wilson.

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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!

Tarnish his call for "equity and access" across the city. Check

Lower teacher morale (their leader can't follow the rules but is demanding that they do). Check

Make a mockery about stamping out cheating! Check

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Anonymous wrote:I make $30k, zoned for Wilson and I don't want my kid going to Wilson. He risks his career to send his kid there. What am I missing?

Many people with very high levels of education have the confidence that their kids will succeed even in a very demographically mixed environment such as at Wilson, and that it provides opportunities for personal growth that a uniformly high SES, high scoring high school would not offer.

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Robert White just called for the resignation of Wilson.

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Anonymous wrote:Robert White just called for the resignation of Wilson.

Nice job. I like him.

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Anonymous wrote:Robert White just called for the resignation of Wilson.

Nice job. I like him.

Every council member who wants to be Mayor now has to follow suit. He's gone.

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Anonymous wrote:Robert White just called for the resignation of Wilson.

Nice job. I like him.

https://twitter.com/tomsherwood/status/964994273979568128

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Anonymous wrote:Robert White just called for the resignation of Wilson.

Nice job. I like him.

https://twitter.com/tomsherwood/status/964994273979568128

Do you get the feeling Tom Sherwood is enjoying this? He seems to have a certain youthful exuberance in his coverage yesterday and today.

[Anonymous]

I noticed that also last night on Twitter, PP. I'm not saying this as a positive or negative, but it's a bit unlike him.

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Anonymous wrote:Robert White just called for the resignation of Wilson.

Nice job. I like him.

https://twitter.com/tomsherwood/status/964994273979568128

Do you get the feeling Tom Sherwood is enjoying this? He seems to have a certain youthful exuberance in his coverage yesterday and today.

Enjoying is the wrong word. He working the story. He’s far more experienced than anyone else covering city politics and can get these folks to talk on a Saturday.