Isn't having kids meet grade-level expectations (L4) the point of school? If that is not your chief concern, what are you doing there? |
There's not much challenge in keeping students on grade level when they arrive there on grade level. Parents often mistaken teacher (and admin) quality based on proficiency in testing. That's not at all what I consider the point of school |
Lol!! If that were the point of school, then DC wouldn’t be in the situation where the majority of students don’t reach L4. For most people, school is just a place to stick your kids while you are at work all day. That’s it. Education is gravy. |
Agreed that tests themselves are not the point, but you seem unconcerned about the whole learning thing. Best I can tell, all you are concerned with is your autonomy. |
I love learning! That's why I'm a teacher. I just lost of month of teaching to accommodate PARCC testing and now we're again losing time to get ready for all the other EOY tests. |
Really? So this whole petition thing was just because some people were bored? Silly me. Here I was thinking I actually care about my kid's education and daily experience. |
Please tell me this isnt fully thought thru. You're saying it's racist bc... The parents of ward 2 are the REAL victims here? OMG I don't know why I had higher opinions of DCUM posters. There really isn't any hope for your children. |
I hesitate to tell you how this all works, but did you read the Post article? Do you think the reporter didn’t try to push the race angle hard, trying to get a nibble? Of course she did; that’s her job. It is entirely appropriate for her to question and explore if race mattered here.
Yet race doesn’t appear at all in the article. I cannot say exactly why this is, but usually it is because the officials shared with the reporter documentary evidence “off the record” making it abundantly clear race was not a factor. But go right ahead, believe now that the black IS, the black deputy Chancellor, the black Chancellor, the black mayor, and the black reporter are all in cahoots and doing the bidding of a narrow racist cabal. |
NP. I am old enough to remember when people deflecting substantive arguments with false accusations of racism put in the effort. No, they didn't say W2 parents where the victims. They said people like you who falsely claim racism are in fact guilty of racism. They pointed out that the only defenses thus far are based on some unfounded accusation that he was fired for being black. They ignore that DCPS made their own findings and replaced him but you ignore that inconvenient fact and pretend like the parents fired him. Racism is real. Black people are discriminated against every day in myriad ways. People like you make it harder to fight actual racism when you cry wolf in situations like this. |
The real victims are the DCPS students who suffer the consequences of attempts to weaponize identity politics and false accusations of racism to shield incompetent DCPS teachers and administrators. |
I have no doubt you think you were doing it for the students. All you did was destabilize your kids school |
It was already unstable and moving in a negative direction. Change was the goal. Whether the change will work remains to be seen, but the status quo wasn't working. |
Pp. If I'm guilty of racism here... Then who's the victim of my racism? I'm confused. I'm laughing having heard it all and you stepped into clarify...nothing at all. If I'm racist, who is the victim? It's either the wealthy white parents of ward 2 who organized to get a black man removed from his job even though his school has all the same problems other schools have. Or it's the black principal himself. So if no one ever said the rich white parents are the victims of [my] and they're not... You're saying I'm racist and the black principal is the victim of my racism bc I'm saying he shouldn't have been removed with 5 weeks left in the school year? I'm okay not being on the same page as everyone who thinks that. I was trying to be logical but I think lógic doesn't apply wherever white fragility is present hahaha cue the new meltdowns!! #whitefragility |
As of last Thursday, the school was in free fall. Hard to destabilize that. |
The claims are always false to people who would need to reflect and realize why it's deeply racist to think operate and behave the way they do. |