School Choices for Michelle Rhee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are Fenty's sons going to go to public school this Sept. ? Which school?

Considering the big push for the enrollment cutoff for DCPS was Monday (7/28 ), wonder which DCPS school the Fenty kids are enrolled in???

Well thanks to Marion Barry , fixing schools might not get any easier.

http://www.examiner.com/a-1516104~Barry_stalls_school_renovations__decries__lack_of_accountability_.html

Barry is a megalomaniacal hypocrite IMO. "Lack of accountability"?!? Um, excuse me, but who was mayor for 15 of the 30 years since Home Rule? And remember the Control Board days?

As 15:28 pointed out, Rhee & Fenty didn't create the mess. Hell, they couldn't have been more than 10 years old when Barry was first elected! Fenty went to DCPS, so I'm guessing he's pretty sensitive to how far things have slipped. At this point, I wouldn't blame Fenty for sending his kids to MoCo public school.

I can't believe anyone would even SUGGEST holding off maintenance for a school with 300+ kids in a 100 year old building just because it's in Fenty's ward.

OT, I know. Just had to let off some steam. I'm a 20 year resident of DC. I can't stand that crack-head excuse for a politician Barry. Hopefully this posturing crap will blow over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are Fenty's sons going to go to public school this Sept. ? Which school?

Considering the big push for the enrollment cutoff for DCPS was Monday (7/28 ), wonder which DCPS school the Fenty kids are enrolled in???

Well thanks to Marion Barry , fixing schools might not get any easier.

http://www.examiner.com/a-1516104~Barry_stalls_school_renovations__decries__lack_of_accountability_.html

Barry is a megalomaniacal hypocrite IMO. "Lack of accountability"?!? Um, excuse me, but who was mayor for 15 of the 30 years since Home Rule? And remember the Control Board days?

As 15:28 pointed out, Rhee & Fenty didn't create the mess. Hell, they couldn't have been more than 10 years old when Barry was first elected! Fenty went to DCPS, so I'm guessing he's pretty sensitive to how far things have slipped. At this point, I wouldn't blame Fenty for sending his kids to MoCo public school.

I can't believe anyone would even SUGGEST holding off maintenance for a school with 300+ kids in a 100 year old building just because it's in Fenty's ward.

OT, I know. Just had to let off some steam. I'm a 20 year resident of DC. I can't stand that crack-head excuse for a politician Barry. Hopefully this posturing crap will blow over.

I hear you.

[Anonymous]

Fenty may have gone to DCPS for elementary, but I believe he went private for high school.

[Anonymous]

I agree that test scores are not the best indicator of school performance. That said, the test scores available at the DCPS site can be broken down by demographics. It makes more sense, when comparing schools, to compare scores from children with similar circumstances (i.e., English speakers, not getting reduced-cost lunch). Oyster compares quite favorably to Mann in that regard, and impressively, the Oyster School kids who have few to no counterparts at Mann or Lafayette score better than similarly-situated children in other DCPS schools.

At Oyster as almost nowhere else in DC, children get the benefit of diversity while getting a very high quality education in a brand-new building.

I just bought a house in Oyster boundaries in large part to be there.

[Anonymous]

Finally, a voice of sanity on test scores! Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I am a DC native (5th generation), and I attended Adams (back when it was John Quincy Adams Elementary Sch) in the 1950s. I ended up getting a doctorate at Harvard; and no longer live on East Coast. The depths to which the schools in DC have sunk has long distressed me. None of my relations who still live there sends their children to public schools. My father graduated from the former Central HS in the 1930s (has new name now, but don't recall it). Rhee looks like she is on the right track. I would like to point out that the only reason the test scores can be broken down by demgraphics is No Child Left Behind. It is a great program, we need to keep it. Rhee has my sincerest wishes for success.

[Anonymous]

I think it's fascinating that everyone is making the assumption that her children would attend a school near her house. My understanding is that her kids spend much of their time with their father as well and he lives very close to Oyster. Technically, they would be out of boundary if they didn't go to Oyster. Interesting how the assumption is that they should attend near their mother and not their father.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a DC native (5th generation), and I attended Adams (back when it was John Quincy Adams Elementary Sch) in the 1950s. I ended up getting a doctorate at Harvard; and no longer live on East Coast. The depths to which the schools in DC have sunk has long distressed me. None of my relations who still live there sends their children to public schools. My father graduated from the former Central HS in the 1930s (has new name now, but don't recall it). Rhee looks like she is on the right track. I would like to point out that the only reason the test scores can be broken down by demgraphics is No Child Left Behind. It is a great program, we need to keep it. Rhee has my sincerest wishes for success.

I'd like to go on record in agreement with this PP. I remain stunned by the reactionary opinions about NCLB, driven primarily by individuals threatened by data-driven analysis of their job performance. Welcome to the real world, folks. Guess what - even liberals and Independents want schools to be accountable for providing a good education to children. The days of Al Shanker (Schools will be about children when schoolchildren pay union dues) are over.