Is Bowser's goal really to damage and destroy DC public schools?
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Anonymous
It truly is delusional, I agree. How exactly did Trump close schools? No, Trumps desire was for schools to open. I hate the orange one but it’s absurd to say this was all Trumps doing. |
Anonymous
Yeah it’s odd that there are seem to be people equating DC PUBLIC charter schools with private schools. They are non-profit, as well. This whole line of thinking seems out-of-touch. Which is what I’ve come to expect with a segment of the vocal Twitter edu-left of DC. |
Anonymous
As someone who has lived in DC for 20 years and has kids who have attended both charters and DCPS, I can attest that this is accurate. The creation of charter schools enabled the middle class who used to leave DC for schools to stay. This also led to people being willing to try their poorly performing in boundary DCPS for early elementary. Each year, more and more families would stay past PK, past 1st, etc. There was a symbiotic effect and DCPS wouldn't have improved as much if charters weren't there to help keep more families in DC. WTU had such a bad influence on DCPS that many of us chose charters for this reason. However, I do believe that there's an argument to be made that charters are now siphoning off MC/UMC families who might go to their IB DCPS if they didn't have a charter spot. But that wasn't the case 10 years ago and there are still parts of the city with very poorly performing DCPS schools and we would lose those families if they didn't have a charter spot. There's no easy answer. Fenty did more to improve public education in DC than any other Mayor. But remember that he butted heads with the WTU when he fired the worst of the worst teachers - including ones who abused children - and that cost him the election because a lot of blacks saw him as taking away good jobs from black people. That was the WTU message to vote against him and it worked. There are no perfect answers here, but WTU-endorsed Robert White would set us back to the pre-Fenty years and DCPS would basically become a jobs program. I'm not a big Bowser fan, but she at least tried to reopen schools when Robert White and WTU were agitating to keep them closed. She's by far the least worst candidate, so she has my vote. P.S. The people voting against Bowser due to increased crime are ignorant at best. The increased crime is due to WTU keeping schools closed and bad policies like defunding the police from WTU-endorsed candidates like Robert White and Janeese Lewis George. Bowser is opposed to defunding the police and in favor of keeping schools open. Schools and crime would get much, much worse under Robert White as Mayor. He's done enough harm as a council member. |
Anonymous
In progressive Twitterverse, anyone who doesn’t fully support your utopian vision is clearly Team MAGA. The fact that you guys are coming out so strong and so early for Robert White should speak volumes. Smears against Robert White??? Check out the title of this thread. I’m agnostic on Bowser but don’t believe she is out to damage and destroy DCPS. |
Anonymous
I actually think if Bowser gets kicked out of office by people angry about crime and schools, White will respond to those issues because he’ll want to be re-elected. That’s usually how politics works. |
Anonymous
Who is “you guys.” You realize you’re responding to a bunch of different people here, right? For example I am a moderate democrat who hates Bowser. |
Anonymous
Nice try. If school closures were all Trump’s fault, explain how my nieces and nephews in blue states across the country were able to attend public elementary school in person all last year. Here in DC, it was Bowser’s fault for capitulating to the WTU, and Robert White would have handled it worse. |
Anonymous
And as a council member, what is he doing to address rising crime, and specifically rising youth crime (associated with extended school closures)? (trying to keep on topic for a schools forum) |
Anonymous
What? He has literally no plan whatsoever that impacts regular K-12 students in any way. Like he actually does not address them at all. |
Anonymous
| I will vote for whoever hates the teachers union the most. |
Anonymous
| I get the sense that White will generally do what the WTU wants. That I like that appears to go against the general sentiment of DCUM, but that's not news. |
Anonymous
+1 lol |
Anonymous
This sentiment is so ridiculous. We have actual evidence that Bowser can't handle the WTU. Bowser kept the schools closed FOR MORE THAN A YEAR. Even when they "reopened" many kids couldn't attend because of arbitrary capacity limits. |
Anonymous
| Wait, which part? That Robert White will do what WTU wants? |
Anonymous
lol wait wait wait. you're trying to argue that white will stand up TO the WTU? |