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

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Anonymous wrote:Vincent Gray now in the resign camp.

I'm hoping this is the first salvo in his campaign for mayor.

Because you liked Kaya Henderson so much?

That was the ultimate Gray bait and switch. Campaign on replacing Rhee and then just promote her deputy. I’m in awe.

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Anonymous wrote:It is absolutely not logical to fire Niles for succumbing to pressure from the Chancellor to break the rules, but not also fire the same guy who made the rules in the first place.

Niles is a deputy mayor, is a top lieutenant for Bowser. Enabling Wilson to break the rules was wrong on its face AND created a political problem for the mayor. Niles had to go.

Add to it that she didn’t catch the attendance scandal and oversaw all the Kaya era special placements - the mayor had enough.

And the Chancellor, who very obviously had the power to be proactive in addressing these problems within DCPS (but just waits around until someone else finds out about it}, gets a pass because why?

I wonder if he was himself reported to his new "Office of Integrity"?

Based on his tenure in Oakland he likes to add high paying jobs/overhead to solve organizational challenges. Here is an organizational solution for you: the leader needs to follow the g-d rules. If the leader lacks integrity the solution is to get rid of the leader not add an office.

[Anonymous]

If Wilson resigns, are you all comfortable with Wanda Legrand, the #2 he brought in, to replace him on an interim basis?

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Anonymous wrote:If Wilson resigns, are you all comfortable with Wanda Legrand, the #2 he brought in, to replace him on an interim basis?

Only if it is interim with the full understanding that someone clean needs to be selected for the job. Anyone chosen by Wilson is tainted by his cheating.

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Anonymous wrote:If Wilson resigns, are you all comfortable with Wanda Legrand, the #2 he brought in, to replace him on an interim basis?

Is she the one who has been giving the SEL PD from Oakland, if so NO!!!! but then on the other hand at this time in the school year, I don't suppose it matters.

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Anonymous wrote:Vincent Gray now in the resign camp.

I'm hoping this is the first salvo in his campaign for mayor.

Because you liked Kaya Henderson so much?

Because I'm sick of Bowser

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It is absolutely not logical to fire Niles for succumbing to pressure from the Chancellor to break the rules, but not also fire the same guy who made the rules in the first place.

Niles is a deputy mayor, is a top lieutenant for Bowser. Enabling Wilson to break the rules was wrong on its face AND created a political problem for the mayor. Niles had to go.

Add to it that she didn’t catch the attendance scandal and oversaw all the Kaya era special placements - the mayor had enough.

And the Chancellor, who very obviously had the power to be proactive in addressing these problems within DCPS (but just waits around until someone else finds out about it}, gets a pass because why?

Never said he should. But I get why Bowser may have felt more betrayed by Niles and wanted her gone immediately. She is gonna get rid of Wilson too, but doesn't have a replacement. His role is harder to fill.

Replacing Niles with Smith is like putting in mini-me (or mini-she, as it were). It's easy to replace Wilson: just put the next in charge as interim. No big deal.

By Smith you mean Ahnna Smith? She struck me as a mini-Bowser when I met her.

[Anonymous]

I'm impressed with what Cheh wrote. Reasonable and well thought out.
How did Grosso ever end up on the council? He seems passive and not very bright.

Wilson needs to resign. I have no confidence in his ability to lead. Also, he clearly has poor judgement.
All he has done is add more people at the top - Wanda Legrand and Michael Gaal. What does Michael Gaal even do?
I was unimpressed by Wilson's response when the Ballou scandal surfaced - duck and cover. Then he just created yet another office and instead of getting someone from outside
DCPS, hired someone for the position with a fake online PhD who has been part of the corrupt DCPS culture for 20 years.
Refuses an internal investigation of the central office. Kept on most of the dumb and corrupt chiefs and deputy chiefs from Kaya's time. It is business as usual in the central office.
Instead of adding tracking in high schools, he is creating two early college Academies. I don't want early college for my kid, I just want a good or at least decent high school, why is that impossible to achieve? Also, he handled his daughter's high school choices incredibly poorly. It makes me so mad because my daughter had an extremely tough time adjusting to 9th grade last year in high school. It felt like a horrible mistake but we had no choice but to stick it out. I felt helpless and it is a terrible feeling that you are failing your child.
We stuck it out because we had no other option and then applied for lottery so she could transfer. Guess what, eventually things improved and she didn't even want to transfer out anymore. Yet he wants special treatment for his child and now is homeschooling her because he has no faith in our public high schools. Great message to send everyone Chancellor Wilson! It is time you packed up and headed out of DC.


I blame Bowser for hiring someone clearly unqualified for the job. They should up the $ and try and lure someone from Massachusetts or NY or Md or VA public schools. Someone close or at the top who knows what excellence looks like. The problem is that our folks have no clue and look to PG county for ideas. Central office and our schools are full of people from PG county. They get lured by more money and then they hire their friends. Jane Spence was from PG county schools and I know she brought in lots more people from there.
We can do better, We must do better.

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Anonymous wrote:I am blown away by the chancelor’s lack of good judgment, both regarding initial housing choice and the decision to break the DCPS policy. Reading about the debacle he left behind in Oakland makes me think he struggles with cause and effect when making decisions.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/11/21/new-d-c-schools-chancellor-under-scrutiny-for-overspending-in-california-district-he-led/

Gonna be sexist here. In my family, and that of most of my friends, the woman / wife / mom are the ones who make housing and school decisions. My husband is consulted, but it's my decision.

Then you have no role in your husband's professional responsibilities. Because the District paying him to kowtow to his wife, instead of doing his job is not what the taxpayers signed on for.

[Anonymous]

This is all Bowser's fault for hiring Wilson without parent input as required BY LAW! She knows this and so is standing down, not firing Wilson, and throwing Niles under the bus. To let him go is to acknowledge that Wilson was hired improperly in the first place. Not only does Wilson need to go, she needs to go.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait a second -- he is renting, and he didn't just effing MOVE into a Wilson zone when he belatedly discovered the truth about Ellington? What's wrong with this guy?

The public records may not be up to date.

He moved here at least 5 months ahead of the rest of the family. Would be normal to be in an apartment alone here, then more with family.

Again, why he didn't move IB for a decent school - who knows. Clearly he / his wife didn't know to come to DCUM to talk about their lottery entries / where to live.

If as Chancellor he was incapable of examining the available data and coming to an informed decision, then was clearly out of his depth from the get go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is all Bowser's fault for hiring Wilson without parent input as required BY LAW! She knows this and so is standing down, not firing Wilson, and throwing Niles under the bus. To let him go is to acknowledge that Wilson was hired improperly in the first place. Not only does Wilson need to go, she needs to go.

You are ascribing more intellect to Bowser than she deserves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am blown away by the chancelor’s lack of good judgment, both regarding initial housing choice and the decision to break the DCPS policy. Reading about the debacle he left behind in Oakland makes me think he struggles with cause and effect when making decisions.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/11/21/new-d-c-schools-chancellor-under-scrutiny-for-overspending-in-california-district-he-led/

Gonna be sexist here. In my family, and that of most of my friends, the woman / wife / mom are the ones who make housing and school decisions. My husband is consulted, but it's my decision.

Then you have no role in your husband's professional responsibilities. Because the District paying him to kowtow to his wife, instead of doing his job is not what the taxpayers signed on for.

It’s extremely likely that he risked his career because he feared the rolling pin more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am blown away by the chancelor’s lack of good judgment, both regarding initial housing choice and the decision to break the DCPS policy. Reading about the debacle he left behind in Oakland makes me think he struggles with cause and effect when making decisions.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/11/21/new-d-c-schools-chancellor-under-scrutiny-for-overspending-in-california-district-he-led/

Gonna be sexist here. In my family, and that of most of my friends, the woman / wife / mom are the ones who make housing and school decisions. My husband is consulted, but it's my decision.

Then you have no role in your husband's professional responsibilities. Because the District paying him to kowtow to his wife, instead of doing his job is not what the taxpayers signed on for.

It’s extremely likely that he risked his career because he feared the rolling pin more.

Then he's both married to a shrew AND incompetent to be Chancellor. A loser on both counts.

[Anonymous]

I feel a little bit sorry for him, I doubt I'd want to send my DC to Dunbar BUT he should have known this was not the way to fix his problem
Not enough forethought to effectively lead a school system