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Anonymous
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Posted on our Charter School List Serve by a team coach:
I had the most disappointing experience this afternoon and I'm certainly sure that I was not the only one. Our upper school girls went to play soccer at the new PUBLIC SCHOOL NAME DELETED School field this afternoon. Mayor Adrian Fenty was the chief guest and he with other officials cut the special ribbon...and wow wasn't I truly surprised! In all the speeches that were delivered from the first one at the microphone, to the Mayor, some of his city officials, the Public School Head and faculty, not one of them acknowledged the participation of the CHARTER students or even welcomed them. Not one single person!!! One would think that either the first citizen of this wonderful city or his officials would have at least researched the whole afternoon activities and found out that the visiting school is a DC school - one he spoke in back in 2007! Very, very disappointing. Sometimes I wonder...being from a different culture and all, maybe things are done differently here. Our girls did everyone proud by their great show of sportsmanship. They remained cheerful and all smiles the whole afternoon. Although the other team was clearly a more experienced team, they could only manage to get past our fantastic working back line 5 times! In my opinion...the score should have been higher had it not been for the hard-working team! Thank you for your excellent display of what good sportsmanship is!!! |
Anonymous
| I'm a soccer mom. I'm sorry but this was an away game. It's possible that they would have not mentioned the opponent if it were not a charter school. Sure, a mention would have been nice. However the focus was on the new school, not the opponent. I suggest your coach get a grip! (Also, I hope your daughter's coach knows you've posted this here. From my experience, coaches do not like surprises!) |
Anonymous
| Great to get your input; I think it's rude to acknowledge one school and not the other. Sorry. |
Anonymous
| I absolutely agree that the ideal would have been for the Mayor to welcome the team to the new school. I just think it's a bit much for your daughter's coach to think the mayor neglected to mention the team because it came from a charter school. Which is the thrust of his/her comments as I read them. |
Anonymous
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Maybe...maybe...
As charter parents b/cause this Mayor has gone out of his way to cut us out of budgets it is possible that we project that into situations like this; kind of the lesser stepsister syndrome? I guess I can just chalk him down as equal opportunity rude? 
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