Joe Weedon wants permission to send his daughter to Walls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in an office with several African American PG county parents who also hate their own neighborhood schools and won't send their kids to them if they can help it. We have regular conversations about the dilemma of sending the kids to the underperforming local school vs trying to foot the bill for private school or affording to save to move to a more expensive area with better performing schools. When discussing EH and Eastern as my son's inbounds schools, their response? You are NOT sending your kid to those schools, no way. Also, interestingly, they want their kids to also have diversity, as in to not be in predominantly African American schools, stating their kids have to learn to work and function with diversity.

This post is incoherent. Also, opinions of PG county parents should have little relationship to your decision on where to educate your child (unless you are moving to PG county).

np: The post made sense to me. She was just expressing that these issues are common to a lot of people, and that people of all races worry about E-H and Eastern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not Weedon that failed, it's DCPS. Article fails to mention that he worked for a non-profit focused on Eastern before running for school board. He told everyone his plan was to have his daughter attend Eastern. You could not find anyone more dedicated to the cause.

And yet ...

He is being dragged because he was so sure of what was right for everyone else, judged everyone else and now he realizes there isn’t a simple answer. It was arrogant then and he would be far more sympathetic if he said maybe I was wrong and there isn’t one answer that is right for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not Weedon that failed, it's DCPS. Article fails to mention that he worked for a non-profit focused on Eastern before running for school board. He told everyone his plan was to have his daughter attend Eastern. You could not find anyone more dedicated to the cause.

And yet ...

He is being dragged because he was so sure of what was right for everyone else, judged everyone else and now he realizes there isn’t a simple answer. It was arrogant then and he would be far more sympathetic if he said maybe I was wrong and there isn’t one answer that is right for all.

I like Joe a lot and was saddened when he lost his seat. But I think that a lot of the rah-rah spirit of that cohort from Maury going to Eliot-Hime wasn’t going to last. I just wish he and Amy hadn’t been so openly disappointed when older kids from the Hill chose Walls and Ellington, or god forbid, private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not Weedon that failed, it's DCPS. Article fails to mention that he worked for a non-profit focused on Eastern before running for school board. He told everyone his plan was to have his daughter attend Eastern. You could not find anyone more dedicated to the cause.

And yet ...

He is being dragged because he was so sure of what was right for everyone else, judged everyone else and now he realizes there isn’t a simple answer. It was arrogant then and he would be far more sympathetic if he said maybe I was wrong and there isn’t one answer that is right for all.

I like Joe a lot and was saddened when he lost his seat. But I think that a lot of the rah-rah spirit of that cohort from Maury going to Eliot-Hime wasn’t going to last. I just wish he and Amy hadn’t been so openly disappointed when older kids from the Hill chose Walls and Ellington, or god forbid, private.

Yes, I too wish people weren't so openly sanctimonious know-it-alls.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was pretty hilarious when he lost his election last fall

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Difficult decision, my ass. It's a lock she'll go to Walls and the performative hand-wringing is for cover.

+1000. There is no hypocrite like a liberal hypocrite. No way will he sacrifice his own kid on the altar of political correctness.

Well put. See also: Samantha Bee and her husband blocking diversity from their kids' neighborhood school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not Weedon that failed, it's DCPS. Article fails to mention that he worked for a non-profit focused on Eastern before running for school board. He told everyone his plan was to have his daughter attend Eastern. You could not find anyone more dedicated to the cause.

And yet ...

He is being dragged because he was so sure of what was right for everyone else, judged everyone else and now he realizes there isn’t a simple answer. It was arrogant then and he would be far more sympathetic if he said maybe I was wrong and there isn’t one answer that is right for all.

Well put. Instead he has to spin up this bullsh*t in an attempt to rationalize his shameless hypocrisy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Difficult decision, my ass. It's a lock she'll go to Walls and the performative hand-wringing is for cover.

+1000. There is no hypocrite like a liberal hypocrite. No way will he sacrifice his own kid on the altar of political correctness.

Well put. See also: Samantha Bee and her husband blocking diversity from their kids' neighborhood school.

What did Samantha Bee do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Difficult decision, my ass. It's a lock she'll go to Walls and the performative hand-wringing is for cover.

+1000. There is no hypocrite like a liberal hypocrite. No way will he sacrifice his own kid on the altar of political correctness.

Well put. See also: Samantha Bee and her husband blocking diversity from their kids' neighborhood school.

Samantha Bee and her husband did no such thing.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/samantha-bees-husband-school/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Difficult decision, my ass. It's a lock she'll go to Walls and the performative hand-wringing is for cover.

+1000. There is no hypocrite like a liberal hypocrite. No way will he sacrifice his own kid on the altar of political correctness.

Well put. See also: Samantha Bee and her husband blocking diversity from their kids' neighborhood school.

Okay, so that one is patently false. Fake news. You can stop spreading that one, PP.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/samantha-bees-husband-school/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not Weedon that failed, it's DCPS. Article fails to mention that he worked for a non-profit focused on Eastern before running for school board. He told everyone his plan was to have his daughter attend Eastern. You could not find anyone more dedicated to the cause.

And yet ...

He is being dragged because he was so sure of what was right for everyone else, judged everyone else and now he realizes there isn’t a simple answer. It was arrogant then and he would be far more sympathetic if he said maybe I was wrong and there isn’t one answer that is right for all.

I like Joe a lot and was saddened when he lost his seat. But I think that a lot of the rah-rah spirit of that cohort from Maury going to Eliot-Hime wasn’t going to last. I just wish he and Amy hadn’t been so openly disappointed when older kids from the Hill chose Walls and Ellington, or god forbid, private.

I think it also matters that at the highschool age, kids have an opinion on where they go, regardless of their parents wanting to put them in the neighborhood school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Difficult decision, my ass. It's a lock she'll go to Walls and the performative hand-wringing is for cover.

+1000. There is no hypocrite like a liberal hypocrite. No way will he sacrifice his own kid on the altar of political correctness.

Well put. See also: Samantha Bee and her husband blocking diversity from their kids' neighborhood school.

Okay, so that one is patently false. Fake news. You can stop spreading that one, PP.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/samantha-bees-husband-school/

God, between the pop-ups and the poor scrolling that Snopes site is virtually unreadable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, the article came across to me as the ES was saved once it was mostly white.

Any school can be approved if enough resources and attention are invested. The attendees’ race is irrelevant, unless that is what is determining what resources and attention are available for improving that school.

Agreed. This is what rubbed me the wrong way also. I am Indian American and my kids half white. They go to a majority black and Hispanic school. One got into an extremely sought after dcps and switched in 4. Top of her class. The first school prepared her extremely well, and she observed that the kids in school 1 worked harder. It was more rigorous, more homework, higher expectations from teachers on behavior as well as homework. How much longer do we go before we realize skin color does not equate to potential or intelligence? I’m dismayed that s progressive type like wheedon is struggling with this still. Hypocrisy— that is the name of this story. His daughter is the clear thinking one.

By the way, my parents didn’t care when I was the only Asian in my class. Nor did they care about that when they came to this country for graduate school. They (unlike some others of my background) did not flinch st all when I sent my kids to a title 1 school. They observed as I did, that the teaching and the students were good, and that my kids loved school and had made good friends. Kids will show us the way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not Weedon that failed, it's DCPS. Article fails to mention that he worked for a non-profit focused on Eastern before running for school board. He told everyone his plan was to have his daughter attend Eastern. You could not find anyone more dedicated to the cause.

And yet ...

He is being dragged because he was so sure of what was right for everyone else, judged everyone else and now he realizes there isn’t a simple answer. It was arrogant then and he would be far more sympathetic if he said maybe I was wrong and there isn’t one answer that is right for all.

I like Joe a lot and was saddened when he lost his seat. But I think that a lot of the rah-rah spirit of that cohort from Maury going to Eliot-Hime wasn’t going to last. I just wish he and Amy hadn’t been so openly disappointed when older kids from the Hill chose Walls and Ellington, or god forbid, private.

I think it also matters that at the highschool age, kids have an opinion on where they go, regardless of their parents wanting to put them in the neighborhood school.

Except the article says the kid wanted Eastern. It also said she was concerned with whether it would be more challenging than EH, where the complaint was a loss of instructional time due to teacher absences.

So did kid decide she wanted to sit for the Walks exam or did parents suggest ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, the article came across to me as the ES was saved once it was mostly white.

Any school can be approved if enough resources and attention are invested. The attendees’ race is irrelevant, unless that is what is determining what resources and attention are available for improving that school.

Agreed. This is what rubbed me the wrong way also. I am Indian American and my kids half white. They go to a majority black and Hispanic school. One got into an extremely sought after dcps and switched in 4. Top of her class. The first school prepared her extremely well, and she observed that the kids in school 1 worked harder. It was more rigorous, more homework, higher expectations from teachers on behavior as well as homework. How much longer do we go before we realize skin color does not equate to potential or intelligence? I’m dismayed that s progressive type like wheedon is struggling with this still. Hypocrisy— that is the name of this story. His daughter is the clear thinking one.

By the way, my parents didn’t care when I was the only Asian in my class. Nor did they care about that when they came to this country for graduate school. They (unlike some others of my background) did not flinch st all when I sent my kids to a title 1 school. They observed as I did, that the teaching and the students were good, and that my kids loved school and had made good friends. Kids will show us the way.

PP, would you be willing to name school 1? It sounds fantastic.