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

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Anonymous wrote:I JUST WATCHED THE CLIP OF THE INTERVIEW. FU$%k HIM! I AM LIVID. I AM ALMOST IN TEARS I AM SO UPSET. MY DC IS AT AN EOTP SCHOOL WITH A BUNCH OF RUFFIANS. THE TEACHERS ARE FANTASTIC--THE KIDS ARE INCORRIGIBLE. DC HAS DEMONSTRATED BEHAVIOURS THAT NEVER BEFORE WERE PRESENT. WE HAVE BEEN AFRAID THAT DC IS GOING TO HURT HERSELF. SHE IS DESPONDENT AND HATES HER SCHOOL., IT IS AN IMMENSE STRUGGLE TO HELP DC AND WE ARE JUST HOLDING OUR BREATH WAITING FOR THE END OF THE YEAR TO COME SO WE CAN MOVE DC INTO HOPEFULLY A CHEAP PRIVATE-IF WE CAN GET IN AND IF WE CAN GET FINANCIAL AID. OH YEAH, AND WE ARE TRYING TO LOTTERY INTO MURCH, HEARST, OR LAFAYETTE---PROB WONT HAPPEN. AND THIS FUC&%ING IDIOT JUST BREAKS HIS OWN G---D RULES!!!! I DONT FEEL SORRY FOR HIM. HE NEEDS TO GO.

I wonder if you're at our EOTP school.

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Anonymous wrote:I know it’s been said already but I still cannot get over why he would buy in NE with 3 school-aged kids. Even if he assumed his daughter would be okay at Wilson, what was his plan for his other two kids? He could’ve bought a gorgeous home in Shepherd Park for $1m (same as what he paid in NE).

Have you seen the pics of the home he bought in N.E.? It’s Langdon, not Brookland, and screams nouveau-riche.

NP, I tried shopblocker to no avail.

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Every interview just makes it that much more enraging to every other EOTP parent who can’t break the rules like he did.

Especially because he gives those speeches where he tells parents to send their kids to their IB school and work with him to improve them.

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OH my goodness. Just when I thought this could not get worse.
Last night the WTU sent out an email about how we should rally around Wilson- because our kids have had so many chancellors. As a WTU member I responded and said it was misguided. We do not tolerate fraud for continuity.

Then, this morning my UNION PRESIDENT responded to me and told me that I was 'disgusting' for having a zero tolerance policy. And that this same zero tolerance policy is what is sending many of our students to prison.

Now this is DC at its finest.

Way to go WTU. I am have tried to stand by you all in the past, but this- oh lord.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every interview just makes it that much more enraging to every other EOTP parent who can’t break the rules like he did.

Especially because he gives those speeches where he tells parents to send their kids to their IB school and work with him to improve them.

Classic do as I say, not as I do.

In generally every other school district in the country, short of ones that have lottery-based magnets and or application magnet schools, you go to the school in the town you live in, end of story. It's not like (I'm originally from CT so I'll use it as an example) I can't live in New Haven, where the schools are generally not good, and decide I want to go to Amity, one of the best schools in the state. It just doesn't work that way. Short of special needs your local school cannot meet (and even then, you don't get to go to a public school in another town, you possibly get to have the town pay to place your child at a private school that can meet those needs) you go to your school, you go private, or you move. End of story.

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Anonymous wrote:OH my goodness. Just when I thought this could not get worse.
Last night the WTU sent out an email about how we should rally around Wilson- because our kids have had so many chancellors. As a WTU member I responded and said it was misguided. We do not tolerate fraud for continuity.

Then, this morning my UNION PRESIDENT responded to me and told me that I was 'disgusting' for having a zero tolerance policy. And that this same zero tolerance policy is what is sending many of our students to prison.

Now this is DC at its finest.

Way to go WTU. I am have tried to stand by you all in the past, but this- oh lord.

That makes me sick. So now the WTU is in the Mayor’s back pocket?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OH my goodness. Just when I thought this could not get worse.
Last night the WTU sent out an email about how we should rally around Wilson- because our kids have had so many chancellors. As a WTU member I responded and said it was misguided. We do not tolerate fraud for continuity.

Then, this morning my UNION PRESIDENT responded to me and told me that I was 'disgusting' for having a zero tolerance policy. And that this same zero tolerance policy is what is sending many of our students to prison.

Now this is DC at its finest.

Way to go WTU. I am have tried to stand by you all in the past, but this- oh lord.

That makes me sick. So now the WTU is in the Mayor’s back pocket?

Thanks for standing up. Don’t understand that WTU is asking it’s members to support Wilson. Dunbar’s teachers have to be amazed.

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I have 2 children with IEPs / 504s. The process to get them support through DCPS is ridiculous. Just for the school to acknowledge that they are going to start to have a conversation about this took longer than his daughter was enrolled at Ellington.

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‘Disgusting teacher’ here. wTU is a house Union. Always has been- always will be. That’s why I laugh when scum folks act like the WTU is some powerhouse for teachers.

[Anonymous]

Re WTU — seems they are choosing the devil they know bs an unknown. Also he negotiated a contract with them that invited a raise. That hadn’t happened since Rhee (or maybe before?).

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*dcum not scum

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And now we know that Chancellor Wilson was the loser in the negotiations with the WTU.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked in another thread and it sounds like one of his kids is at Wilson, but not sure where the rest are.

what other school would his kid have been at if it is HS. Did he move from Wilson to SWW? Or are we talking middle school. Hardy to deal?

Duke Ellington to Wilson, but lives in Brookland so was in boundary for Dunbar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OH my goodness. Just when I thought this could not get worse.
Last night the WTU sent out an email about how we should rally around Wilson- because our kids have had so many chancellors. As a WTU member I responded and said it was misguided. We do not tolerate fraud for continuity.

Then, this morning my UNION PRESIDENT responded to me and told me that I was 'disgusting' for having a zero tolerance policy. And that this same zero tolerance policy is what is sending many of our students to prison.

Now this is DC at its finest.

Way to go WTU. I am have tried to stand by you all in the past, but this- oh lord.

What's disgusting is equating an the loss of an executive position (for cause!) with going to prison. Unbelievable!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Well, earlier this fall when my husband and I thought our son was struggling with anxiety what did we do? We paid out-of-pocket for a neuropsych evaluation. It is what his pediatrician recommended. And trust me, we do not have the financial means the chancellor clearly has. But we did what we needed for our child. I agree with PP that he is trumping up the claims of social emotional issues because as DC’s supposed supreme educator why wouldn’t Wilson have arranged for an evaluation for his daughter.? Perhaps he did but you would think he would mention it. And my guess is he wouldn’t even have had to do it out of pocket. He could probably pick up the phone and have DCPS do the evaluation, which takes the rest of us kicking and screaming to get. He’s an embarrassing excuse maker.

+1 Furious at his excuses. The cruel irony is that I spent years as a very committed volunteer and advocate for education issues in DC, just as Chancellor Wilson has told people they should. It took me away from my kids multiple nights a week and was incredibly stressful. Unlike the Chancellor, I didn't get paid for it. I found that DCPS and DC elected officials expected too much of parents and started relying on me to do their jobs. Eventually I gave up and quit because I didn't see it helping my kids. A few years later, my child's persona, behavior and grades changed dramatically at the start of this school year. We have persevered for 6 months so far (not 3 weeks like Chancellor Wilson) working every day to help our child while fearing for the child's health and welfare. We have personally paid for a neuropsych evaluation and are paying for expensive therapy -- with far less income and resources than the Chancellor's. We know that there are no better options currently available in DCPS beyond our in-boundary school. If it comes to it, our only choice is to home school our child for the rest of the year or longer -- until we can move or get a spot in a private school (and figure out how to pay for either option).

Plus my husband would never throw me or our kids under the bus like that. Never.