DCPS Central Office Cuts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you all sound like the same folks cheering on the DODGE cuts to the federal gov't workers.

Yes. CO does not have the efficiency, competence, or transparency of the average (pre-DOGE) federal agency.

The assignments that are created at CO are crap.

The ridiculous mandating of the terrible RCTs is malpractice.

The choice of Amplify for science is beyond comprehensible.

DCIAA fails on the basics of getting kids cleared (the system is absurd) and getting kids to practices and games.

Procurement is either inept or corrupt. The school meals are AWFUL, and schools have to pay extortionary prices for supplies and buses.

The standard answer about anything is "no" (unless the request comes from Broad or LPJobs). CO is so concerned about liability and CYA that field trips, celebrations, etc, are a chore.

Need I go on?

[Anonymous]

^^ And by "yes" I meant "no".

DOGE cuts have been random and destructive and should stop.

CO cuts are greatly needed and should ho all the way to the top.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes.

Well why don’t you apply and try to do some of these jobs?

Sorry, but every time I've encountered anyone from downtown I've found them exceptionally stupid and unhelpful. And everyone hates their PD. I like the idea of PD but in real life it's useless. The only people who are at all helpful or competent are the enrollment team.

Because they aren't hiring! They're laying people off. And because I don't want to work with people who perform so poorly and for an organization whose bad reputation is so long entrenched.

So do you have any suggestions on how to improve things so that processes are more efficient? It’s like a wise man once told me, don’t complain about problems unless you’re willing to offer up meaningful solutions. Period.

I do-- it's to get rid of all the employees who are lazy and not very smart! Hope that was part of the layoff.

And please define what “not smart” means in context to the core functions of DCPS Central Office. Provide specific examples. And what qualitative or quantitative measure should be used to determine what is considered “lazy”? I’ll wait…….

Well, one example is when I needed downtown to provide a signature on a form so that we could participate in a grocery store points program. The person had a very hard time understanding the concept, and took weeks to answer the simplest email. Now arguably that's not a "core" function, but it is a function and it's not that big an ask. Yet it was a struggle.

The teacher PD is bad because the same units repeat. The presenters just read their slides aloud with no effort to make it anything more interesting. Year after year. Too lazy to make new presentations or give them in an energetic manner.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of you all sound like the same folks cheering on the DODGE cuts to the federal gov't workers.

Yes. CO does not have the efficiency, competence, or transparency of the average (pre-DOGE) federal agency.

The assignments that are created at CO are crap.

The ridiculous mandating of the terrible RCTs is malpractice.

The choice of Amplify for science is beyond comprehensible.

DCIAA fails on the basics of getting kids cleared (the system is absurd) and getting kids to practices and games.

Procurement is either inept or corrupt. The school meals are AWFUL, and schools have to pay extortionary prices for supplies and buses.

The standard answer about anything is "no" (unless the request comes from Broad or LPJobs). CO is so concerned about liability and CYA that field trips, celebrations, etc, are a chore.

Need I go on?

Should have added the mismanagement of SPED and the warped incentives of Impact.

[Anonymous]

And the awarding of vendor contracts to uncles/cousins/friends. Ex: bus rental for field trips.

[Anonymous]

The whole scandal with the lunch vendor.

[Anonymous]

Lunch vendors Firing of blk ppl and replacing them with Hispanics mid year, mid week, back to back write ups is a travesty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes.

I’ve been in DCPS almost 20 years and I have sat through the same PD repeatedly year after year.

[Anonymous]

The unpleasantness of some of the commenters here is the same as the tenor of the remarks from people who have cheered the decimation of the federal workforce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The unpleasantness of some of the commenters here is the same as the tenor of the remarks from people who have cheered the decimation of the federal workforce.

The difference is that the people cheering on the decimation of the federal workforce have no familiarity with it.

The people most frustrated with DCPS are intimately familiar with it.

The situations are not analogous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The unpleasantness of some of the commenters here is the same as the tenor of the remarks from people who have cheered the decimation of the federal workforce.

I am a laid-off Fed who hates DOGE with the fire of a thousand suns, and I also hate downtown because they make it SO HARD for schools to succeed. They simply cannot get themselves together and it's embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The unpleasantness of some of the commenters here is the same as the tenor of the remarks from people who have cheered the decimation of the federal workforce.

I am a laid-off Fed who hates DOGE with the fire of a thousand suns, and I also hate downtown because they make it SO HARD for schools to succeed. They simply cannot get themselves together and it's embarrassing.

That's your opinion. And the fact that you were laid off and want others in the public sector to be laid off as well is unsettling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The unpleasantness of some of the commenters here is the same as the tenor of the remarks from people who have cheered the decimation of the federal workforce.

I am a laid-off Fed who hates DOGE with the fire of a thousand suns, and I also hate downtown because they make it SO HARD for schools to succeed. They simply cannot get themselves together and it's embarrassing.

That's your opinion. And the fact that you were laid off and want others in the public sector to be laid off as well is unsettling.

If they didn't stink at their jobs I wouldn't want them to be laid off. That's what makes it different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The unpleasantness of some of the commenters here is the same as the tenor of the remarks from people who have cheered the decimation of the federal workforce.

I am a laid-off Fed who hates DOGE with the fire of a thousand suns, and I also hate downtown because they make it SO HARD for schools to succeed. They simply cannot get themselves together and it's embarrassing.

We could make the same argument that you made it difficult for the country to succeed and deserved to be laid off. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The unpleasantness of some of the commenters here is the same as the tenor of the remarks from people who have cheered the decimation of the federal workforce.

The difference is that the people cheering on the decimation of the federal workforce have no familiarity with it.

The people most frustrated with DCPS are intimately familiar with it.

The situations are not analogous.

Very well said.