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Letter from Cancellor re moving schools - opps - I got caught moving my kid?
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Anonymous
+1000. DCPS is essentially experimental outside Upper NW. Wilson has needed to focus on his seriously demanding (and very well-paid) work - no need to experiment with his children in the process. |
Anonymous
Are we really talking about it? Wilson danced a circle around the question about why he didn’t send his daughter to Dunbar. If he had said “Dunbar is f’ed up, and but here’s how I’m going to fix that.” I’d be a lot less cynical. |
Anonymous
I had to unsubscribe from those relentless, insipid emails chock-full of nothing. |
Anonymous
If you want 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, move to the suburbs. (Does it have a driveway and 2-car garage too?) City living is a family of five living in a 1250 square foot row house, 3brs and 1 bath, either a coat closet or half-bath on the main level (not both), and a partially finished basement that eventually becomes the oldest's kid's space courtesy of a futon and desk. Get real. And compared to the Bay Area, DC home prices (and taxes) are way more affordable. |
Anonymous
Except he couldn't do it professionally either. |
Anonymous
And Rashad Young's twins. Don't forget about them! |
Anonymous
Somehow, with that answer, he managed to both insult Dunbar and the intelligence of the people watching the interview. It's pretty incredible when you think about it. |
Anonymous
That is one tacky house. |
Anonymous
It's about time. It's McDuffie's ward's HS that the chancellor is shitting all over by avoiding it at all costs. |
Anonymous
| So a friend of mine sent an email to Mr. Wilson about Brent Elementary cherry picking kids to enroll rather than following the order on the wait list. He wrote back to my friend saying that he was opening an investigation etc etc etc taking it all very seriously. How can we expect him to keep schools like Brent from enrolling whoever they want if he breaks the rules himself? Not to mention the kind of role model we want for our children. I highly doubt that anyone at Brent got into any trouble for their actions. It's such a shit show. |
Anonymous
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He should go for sure but I think the question is, who would want this job?
DCPS is not a normal school district in any sense of the word. Instead it is a battleground where local liberal politics and national conservative politics clash and no one wins. You have a mayor that who no one seems to like, yet no one is running against her. Plus, she has made it clear that she isn't really interested in fixing the schools. Add Grosso to the mix, who is clearly running for Berkeley city council, and you create a toxic mix where nothing actually gets done (but no one gets their feelings hurt). Let's not forgot the Hill forcing more and more charter schools into the city, regardless of quality, and you get an almost impossible task. There is a path forward but it would require planning, 10 years, and some hurt feelings. Instead we'll get continued turnover and failures in leadership. |
Anonymous
| You all sound so ridiculous! Ok, he was wrong, but is it worth unsettling DCPS mid year? Most of you on here are just whining because you did the same thing he did, you purchased a home that you liked in the city EOTP and now you are mad that the lottery did not work out for you or you can't afford private school. Stop being selfish and move! Go where the schools are better and stop complaining or pony up for private. I am tired of reading the attacks. Move on. DC can't get ahead because of the witch hunters that come on here bitching. I said it before and i will say it again, when Rhee did this it was not a problem. New rule or not, she did the same damn thing! I am really tired of you all criticizing him for choosing his EOTP home and not wanting to send his kid to Dunbar. Would you send your kid to Dunbar if you could find a better school? I do think he should have selected Banneker or Walls and that would have caused less of a stir, especially Banneker because only black people use that school, so he would not have to worry about the jealous residents that want so badly to have their kids at Wilson, but were not willing to buy a fixer upper or a small one bedroom for their entire family to live in so they could be IB. Move on. |
Anonymous
Can anyone with experience paying property taxes (I rent...) look at the tax payments. There's a late payment and fee assessed but it doesn't look like they are fully paid. Not sure if I'm just reading it wrong. |
Anonymous
No. We are not moving on. I'm a charter parent IB for Dunbar and incensed about this. It would have been great if the Chancellor made some effort to improve Dunbar for all of us, but he took the easy way out, just like you're recommending for everyone else who lives EOTP. |
Anonymous
This is not a witch hunt. He broke the policy he wrote. This does not compare to Rhee. Rhee's children were enrolled in the neighborhood school where they lived. [primarily with Rhee's ex] If his DD was having challenges at Ellington - do you think Banneker would have been easier? |