Anacostia High School Walk Out

[Anonymous]

Chancellor made a bad call not to delay opening for Anacostia HS. I guess then she rushed over to try and salvage the situation..
From what I've heard, the principal at Anacostia is not popular with the teachers so they may have staged a walkout to embarrass him.

Also, why did Wilson HS get dragged into this discussion? Everyone is saying that Wilson would never get treated this way. A couple of months ago, the Wilson Beacon ran a front page story on how most of the bathrooms are broken and unusable at Wilson and in really poor state. No soap in almost all of them since the soap dispensers are all broken. Sounds very unsanitary. I have also heard Wilson teachers complain about a rat/mice infestation.

DGS is a hot mess. Ballou teachers complain of continuous maintainence issues there. At our school, most service requests/phone calls that we file with DGS are completely ignored. We never even hear back.

[Anonymous]

Many times Murch had few working toilets and water that barely ran. When I say few I mean ltimed when there were 4 working toilets for almost 700 kids including special ed kids. When the unisex staff toilet (one toilet for the entire staff) was broken they would have to close one kid bathroom for staff use only. This happened for years.

Guess what. Everyone survived, the school day went on and they made it work. No walkout. No news stories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the Post article, which is much better than the WJLA article.


"Anacostia Principal Eric Fraser emailed staff just after 7 a.m. Wednesday to inform them of the faulty plumbing. He said that the water flow stopped Tuesday evening and that city agencies were working to fix the problem. Staff and students, Fraser wrote, could use the restroom facilities at Kramer Middle School, about two blocks away.

“We have not yet confirmed alternative arrangements for the meantime but have reached out to Kramer MS who we assume will provide us access to their staff restrooms should anyone need one between now and then,” according to the email obtained by The Washington Post.

Although some bathrooms reopened near the start of the school day — the morning bell rings at 8:45 a.m. — teachers said they were dismayed that classes began with not all restrooms functioning. About 40 percent of the student body requires special education services, with some in wheelchairs and requiring assistance to use the restroom.

Teachers and students said that if the school was in another part of the city, the problems would have been addressed more quickly, parents would have been informed beforehand and classes would have been canceled.

“If it was any other school in the District, they would have closed school,” said Tamone Carter, a junior. “That’s unsanitary.”

School starts at 8:45.
ALL bathrooms reopened at 10:15.
1 hr 30 minutes without ALL bathrooms opened.
There were always bathrooms open during that time.

Do you think on their 1 hour walkout they were able to hold it?

Are you serious? After a 20 minute walk to the metro in the morning I have to pee so badly I feel like I'm going to burst. I would have walked out, too. And ran to the nearest bathroom. And no, I don't have incontinence.

Good for those kids and staff for standing up for themselves.

[Anonymous]

At 815 they did not know the toilets would repaired at 1015. Or today at any time.

They should have cancelled school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many times Murch had few working toilets and water that barely ran. When I say few I mean ltimed when there were 4 working toilets for almost 700 kids including special ed kids. When the unisex staff toilet (one toilet for the entire staff) was broken they would have to close one kid bathroom for staff use only. This happened for years.

Guess what. Everyone survived, the school day went on and they made it work. No walkout. No news stories.

Last year, there was a time when the water pressure at Deal was low and so toilets weren't flushing, guess what - they sent the children home for the day and fixed it? Let's stop making excuses, if the situation wasn't bad, the Chancellor wouldn't have gone over there. We are talking about teenagers at Anacostia, the teachers and hard-working students at that school put up with so much bullish## and disrespect every day, respect!

[Anonymous]

Some of you need to check yourselves. You'd be PISSED if this was your kids school. Stop trying to play someone else online. I don't believe any single person here who is shrugging their shoulders.