Fenty's boys -- where are they going?

[Anonymous]

Yes, "my" game is much more civilized. It's called point/retort or point/counterpoint. There is no point/vomit.

But you did make a value judgement about a school and about the kind of families who attend them based on their "title I" status that is pretty elitist on its face. I found it somewhat offensive. What do you know about Cooke other than the fact that it's a title I school?

[Anonymous]

He needs to send his kids to a DC public school. Walk the talk...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He needs to send his kids to a DC public school. Walk the talk...

Sure he does.

Admittedly, there's a big difference between Lafayette and, say, H.D. Cooke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, "my" game is much more civilized. It's called point/retort or point/counterpoint. There is no point/vomit.

But you did make a value judgement about a school and about the kind of families who attend them based on their "title I" status that is pretty elitist on its face. I found it somewhat offensive. What do you know about Cooke other than the fact that it's a title I school?

It's judgment, and I made none. Instead, I posed four questions. Those were:

1. Why, did you deliberately choose to enroll your child in a Title I school?
2. Or is vomiting on people what you learned was acceptable behavior in your home environment or school?
3. To what extent must other people validate your choices before you feel the need to assault them?
4. Can you understand that if these are your standards of behavior that other people might not want their children exposed to you or your influence?

The world doesn't owe you the fantasy of never being offended. Some people might take offense, but then they pull up their big girl panties and move on. Others get their wittle feewings hurt and threaten to vomit all over everything. Such is the difference between the women and the girls.

In any case, what's known about H.D. Cooke is that according to the most recent data (2008 ) the FARMS percentage is 85% and the DC-CAS numbers were 42% Math and 35% Reading. Those are the PASSING percentages. If these figures offend or distress you, I suggest you take that up with DCPS in general and H.D. Cooke in particular.

If Adrian Fenty doesn't have H.D. Cooke at the top of his list, it's certainly not because of anything I said.

[Anonymous]

wow. you have a serious anger issue. i cannot imagine what motivates you, other than seeking out opportunities to be impressed with yourself.

[Anonymous]

Can you understand that if these are your standards of behavior that other people might not want their children exposed to you or your influence?

Here is your "value" judgement.

Some people might take offense, but then they pull up their big girl panties and move on. Others get their wittle feewings hurt and threaten to vomit all over everything. Such is the difference between the women and the girls.

Here is you acting like a "little girl" and thus losing your "upper hand" in the mature argument category.

(I'm not the vomiting poster, BTW)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is your "value" judgement.

Some people might take offense, but then they pull up their big girl panties and move on. Others get their wittle feewings hurt and threaten to vomit all over everything. Such is the difference between the women and the girls.

Oh please. Once somebody threatens to vomit because they're offended, it's completely reasonable to call them out on their immaturity.

[Anonymous]

Why do you care where Fenty's kids go?

[Anonymous]

I care where Fenty's boys go because he took over DCPS, then he didn't follow the law when he hired Rhee (notificied council after not before he'd made his offer), then let's Rhee behave atrociously, if DCPS is not good enough for his children then, absent any learning differences, they should go to DCPS. Also, he's been promising they would. It's pretty basic, don't know if there are any mayors with young children in other cities, would be interesting to see what they do.

[Anonymous]

They should go even if they have 'learning differences'--that has been one of Rhee's promises.

[Anonymous]

I think if he's said that they'll go to public school he should back up his words with actions. Otherwise he risks been seen as "all talk."

Personally I would be fine with them attending a charter school, as those are public too, but I agree that's politically untenable.

[Anonymous]

7:10 I draw the line there, and don't think he should have to explain himself if a private school suits his sons' needs more because they have learning issues. Of course any issues may not have been apparent when he made his pledge to send them to public.

[Anonymous]

Rhee, under Fenty, is moving to bring all children with special needs back into the public fold. If he and she think they can get a good education there, why not his kids?

[Anonymous]

Public is not for every child with special needs and I'm sure Fenty and Rhee would agree to that in general, separate from whatever Fenty does regarding his two boys who, as far as I know, have none.

Fenty's increasingly unpredictable and arrogant so who knows where his boys will go.

[Anonymous]

Actually, Rhee is trying to bring all special needs students back into the public fold--not to especially good result so far:

A D.C. councilwoman Monday pressed Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to explain what went wrong in her attempt to create a special school for the city’s most troubled kids.

Mary Cheh, D-Ward 3, said Rhee should give a public explanation for a series of costly failures at the Transition Academy at Shadd Elementary, a refuge school designed to provide intensive therapy for some 175 “emotionally disturbed” teens and young adults.

“As they’re experimenting, our kids aren’t getting the services and care they need,” Cheh said. “You may have had a colossal waste of money in a part of the school system that has been wasting money for years.”

An Examiner investigation published Monday revealed a host of problems in the planning and opening of the school. Not enough teachers or staff were hired, the building was considered unsafe and infested with rats, and kids were rushed to emergency rooms in droves thanks to daily, sometimes hourly, riots in the hallways.

The school was supposed to be Rhee’s case study in rebuilding the moribund $300 million special education system, which is already subject to two federal consent decrees.