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[quote=Anonymous]I'm torn as well, and I was a fan of Michelle Rhee. I lived here in 2010 and when I told (educated, liberal) coworkers that I wanted to send my kids to DCPS schools one day they literally LAUGHED at me. The idea of people with options sending their kids to DCPS schools was literally laughable. Now - I'm in a similar job in the same industry, and not only do I send my kids to DCPS EOTP schools, so do tons of other people (and lots at public charters, too). I want mayoral control to continue - it worked.

I'm generally a fan of unions in that workers should have a voice, and should have rights and should have good working conditions and income. But the WTU is just that - a union supporting what's best for teachers. Important, yes, workers rights are important, but not the be all end all of what's best for STUDENTS, and I fear JLG doesn't see that distinction. And things like all those extra snow days they wanted to do made me so angry, and JLG supported them in that. Either kids being at school is important, or it's not. And I think for JLG, it's... not. She was also crazy about this around Covid, wanting to keep schools closed even longer!

I do like what McDuffie is saying about screen time. No screen time before 3rd grade is so smart, no YouTube videos, no ads, go back to computer labs.

He honestly might get my vote because of education, even though I prefer JLG on basically everything else. And I think the linked article about efficiency of the related departments is probably something she'd be better at.

Have any of them said anything about the crappy ELA curriculum? Or the problem with middle schools? [/quote]

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