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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"You guys need to get over the obsession with Kaya Henderson. She is a person of adequate but not exceptional talent in charge of the school system of a small american city. Yes, it happens to be the city where you live, so you care about the outcomes! But stop obsessing over her and her motives. To me she comes across as a better than average DC civil servant, generally honest and trying to do the right thing. She is not in the same league as someone like [b]Rhee who, despite the heavy criticism, is a visionary, founded her own organization at a young age prior to DCPS and went on to other good gigs post-DCPS. [/b]

Henderson will not be offered any lucrative jobs after this if she cannot show good results with DCPS. If she cannot show good results, this will turn out to have been the highest-paying and best job she ever has in her life, and she will be seen as someone who got lucky and was over-promoted following Rhee's ouster. Whereas if she does succeed, she will quite rightly be seen as a great candidate for many other education jobs.

In other words, her incentives are aligned with ours. And I am pretty sure she herself is aware of this."

This is a great synopsis of Kaya Henderson.  She just isn't that good.  We need to do better for our children.

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Yeah, but what did Rhee do for THE CHILDREN she was supposed to be serving?  Seriously, Napoleon was a "visionary" too.[/quote]

I wasn't writing in favor of rhee's legacy. I was comparing the talent and potential of two people. In response to those who compare the two and imagine that somehow henderson is destined for lucrative jobs post-dcps. 
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