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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At this point I'm pretty strongly suspecting the poster(s) most fervently criticizing Rhee are probably among the ones that she wanted fired for underperforming.[/quote]

At this point I'm pretty strongly suspecting the poster most fervently criticizing the people who criticize Rhee are probably DCPS employees trying to discredit any criticism of Rhee.

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I was never a DCPS teacher.  Heck, I was never a teacher anywhere.  I am a parent who had a child in a DCPS under Rhee.  I jumped ship and transferred my child immediately upon given a better opportunity.  I doubt that there is anything that would allow my child to practiced on in DCPS again.

When Rhee decided to configure DC's elementary from a PS-8, and remove Spanish language instruction, that was the last time I tried to keep my middle class kid in a failing school system.  The school was not equipped for middle school children.  The school did not have science labs (I dissected frogs in the 7th and 8th grade student).  The school did not have a gym.  The school did not offer foreign language.  The school did not have a field.  The school was an elementary school with a child's playground.

In addition to poor planning of school facilities, Rhee decided to fire 242 teachers in September.  The classes became crowded as classes were merged.  BTW, the improper firing of those teachers, regardless of their capabilites violated labor practices.  There was a right way and a wrong way.  The tax-payers ended up paying back-pay to many of those teachers.  Rhee should have listened to her lawyers.  So, unless you actually had some stake (children) in the DCPS under Rhee, you need to keep your trap closed.

My family had options.  I felt for those families that did not have options.  And, I really felt for the bright kids my child left behind because they did not have parents savvy enough to poke around for better educational options.  [/quote]

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