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

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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.

Please share, if someone knows. Because evidently the chancellor and I must be close neighbors if he is in Langdon. I'd really like to know why MY son has to play the lottery and hope for the best to avoid Dunbar, but his daughter is somehow above my child.

Easily searchable on redfin. The Post reported that he paid 980k for it in June of 2017.

So he closed on the house after the lottery fornthis current school year. Bizarre to me that he has a nearly $300k salary and didn’t buy IB for Wilson.

I agree, although he couldn't have gotten something updated and with 6 bedrooms WOTP for 980k.

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Anonymous wrote:The long term mental health effects of stressors in childhood have been WELL documented. I'm guessing the Chancellor knows all the latest research and that's why he pulled his kid. No kid should face this scenario though. OSSE is a horrible, school reform organization. You DON'T want them running DCPS. Who can detail all the fingers in the pie (I've never been able to figure it out, and I worked for DCPS) so we can figure out the ideal structure????? I would personally say MORE power should go to Mayor/Council/Chancellor/DCPS central office and MORE accountability-but that the hires should be legit educators willing to innovate, and throw out the garbage testing. right now, with so many circus masters, they can play the age-old fingers pointing game.

So all the kids at Dunbar should be transferred to Wilson because of "stressors"? Why just one kid?

What about Gallium?

No. Dunbar should be improved. Period. Or closed.

A couple years ago, I sat in to observe a gang murder trial and there were these "snitches get stitches" type witnesses who refused to testify and the prosecutor had to read back their previous refusals to testify, and others who testified to being nearby but not seeing anything. Listening to them testify that they had attended and maybe graduated from Dunbar made me think, "whoa."

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Now McDuffie is saying that he should resign...

http://www.kenyanmcduffie.com/councilmember-mcduffie-statement-on-dcps-chancellor-antwan-wilson/

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So where is the girl today?

Poor thing, on so many levels.

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Anonymous wrote:So where is the girl today?

Poor thing, on so many levels.

Great college essay though.

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Anonymous wrote:I picture this: Wilson announces to his family that they are moving to DC. Child doesn't want to upend life and leave friends yadda yadda. A teenager can be difficult in the best of circumstances. Imagine this one. Parents tell her, but we'll be in an awesome house and this fantastic, brand new performing arts high school where you can study dance. You'll love it. Let's go! Fast forward to three weeks into the school year--new place, new people, hard to break into social groups in sophomore year. School does not live up to the awesome experience her parents promised to get her across the country. She's lonely, anxious, depressed, still in touch with good friends back in Oakland, mad as hell at her parents. emotional and social crisis ensues. Parents panic and do whatever it takes to get their lovely, happy girl back amidst guilt over making her so unhappy. "tunnel vision". The worst is that IF she was making a good go of it at Wilson, she has now been yanked out of that school. Horrible all around. No matter what the dad has done, I do wish they had let the girl stay at Wilson until the end of the year if at all possible. Also wish the parents had opted for private or Dunbar if she absolutely had to leave Ellington. Going private due to social/emotional issues is much easier to explain than cheating the whole system and losing integrity and trust.

This.

Yep, he could have easily put this back on Bowser/Niles and told them he needed to make arrangements for his kids sake and that if he didn’t have their support he would have to quit.

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Anonymous wrote:I picture this: Wilson announces to his family that they are moving to DC. Child doesn't want to upend life and leave friends yadda yadda. A teenager can be difficult in the best of circumstances. Imagine this one. Parents tell her, but we'll be in an awesome house and this fantastic, brand new performing arts high school where you can study dance. You'll love it. Let's go! Fast forward to three weeks into the school year--new place, new people, hard to break into social groups in sophomore year. School does not live up to the awesome experience her parents promised to get her across the country. She's lonely, anxious, depressed, still in touch with good friends back in Oakland, mad as hell at her parents. emotional and social crisis ensues. Parents panic and do whatever it takes to get their lovely, happy girl back amidst guilt over making her so unhappy. "tunnel vision". The worst is that IF she was making a good go of it at Wilson, she has now been yanked out of that school. Horrible all around. No matter what the dad has done, I do wish they had let the girl stay at Wilson until the end of the year if at all possible. Also wish the parents had opted for private or Dunbar if she absolutely had to leave Ellington. Going private due to social/emotional issues is much easier to explain than cheating the whole system and losing integrity and trust.

Pretty much texto what I said last night watching television, with a bit of girl AND wife running the show and making a scene. Wife says "see the mess you've made having us all rush out here to do see, let me handle that". Or maybe worse: "see, how Malia get's to go to Sidwell!". No, in so many ways, this isn't going to go away. Speaks so poorly for him as a leader, not to mention his low confidence in our schools, teachers, and administrators, while the rest of us have problems exactly like these (and often more god knows) and we do make it work. We have parent-teacher conferences, daily check-ins, get counselors involved, contemplate the lottery for the next round or private school. It's what we do as parents and the least of what a chancellor can be expected to do, or mostly better. It's understandable but not excusable. He's not going to be effective. How can he now stand up and say to teachers, for example, whatever adversity you face (a classroom full of kids yelling, screaming at you, the principal breathing down your neck), you can't pass a student who has more than (what did they say, 5?!) absences in your course. Cry me a river!

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The Chancellr is resigning. You heard it here first.

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If he can't even handle his teenage daughter, and her social/ emotional need, how is he supposed to initiate social emotional learning within an entire school district?

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Anonymous wrote:The Chancellr is resigning. You heard it here first.

for real?

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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.

Please share, if someone knows. Because evidently the chancellor and I must be close neighbors if he is in Langdon. I'd really like to know why MY son has to play the lottery and hope for the best to avoid Dunbar, but his daughter is somehow above my child.

Easily searchable on redfin. The Post reported that he paid 980k for it in June of 2017.

Right! How could I forget that bathroom.

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Anonymous wrote:The Chancellr is resigning. You heard it here first.

for real?

Anyone else notice the email about Cafritz Cooper’s passing was signed by DCPS and not by Antwan Wilson? Does that mean anything? Like that he isn’t employed at DCPS anymore? Just a thought.

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Anonymous wrote:If he can't even handle his teenage daughter, and her social/ emotional need, how is he supposed to initiate social emotional learning within an entire school district?

Exactly the point I was making about standing in front of hundreds of teachers to tell them how it's gonna be. No way, this will work for him, nor the rest of us. I don't need Rhee with her broom back but we do need someone who has integrity and practices what they preach. Too bad indeed, but that's not him then.

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Anonymous wrote:The Chancellr is resigning. You heard it here first.

Heard it from Swami first.

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Anonymous wrote:If he can't even handle his teenage daughter, and her social/ emotional need, how is he supposed to initiate social emotional learning within an entire school district?

Now let's be real, lot of great marriage counselors have terrible marriages. There is a difference between doing something profesionally and doing something personally (teachers get tutors for their kids, for example)