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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I just can't get over the antipathy she shows towards the white students at her school. It's kind of incredible. If this is what she's willing to say publicly... She really shouldn't be allowed to keep her job.

The article is also bad. USDA changed the definition of CEP (from estimated 40% to 25% at risk), which is why DCPS practice changed with respect to calculating Title I eligibility (which is also federally determined); it's not that the underlying criteria for eligibility changed and it's not like DCPS could change it if it wanted to. And, in fact, it's actual reported at-risk population times a multiplier specifically to account for undercounting. The author on this article really doesn't know much about schools seemingly.
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Agree.  Wonder if some of the antipathy is due to resentment at having to deal with a less deferential and more demanding parent population.  And the snarky "I couldn't afford to live in this neighborhood" comment.  [b]That is one of those things you might think, but that you shouldn't be saying out loud, much less to the press.  [/b]And yes, affluent well-educated parents are demanding.  They also raise lots of money for the PTA and do a lot of volunteering.  There is a higher degree of scrutiny on quality of faculty/staff/leadership.   For years, the rap on Bancroft among the non-Latino row house population was that the school administration liked being a Title 1/predominantly low-income school and weren't exactly welcoming to higher income families.  Those families then went OOB to Eaton, since so many of the kids who were in-bound for Eaton went private, there were always seats.  Bancroft got renovated and now the younger generation of families moving into Mt.P (who are even more affluent than the row house owners of a decade ago), have decided to invest en masse in the school so they don't have to trek across the park every day and can walk to school.  I really hope the principal is not as she is portrayed in this article.[/quote]

To be fair, she didn't say that to the press. She said it at a panel discussion at Georgetown University, the video of which is online on Facebook for anyone to watch: https://www.facebook.com/edtransform/videos/913462802948648

DCPS wouldn't make the principal available for comment to the journalist.

But yeah, the principal getting to pick and choose families on the PK lottery list based on their their home language - which is simply a proxy for ethnicity - is insane in a by-right public school. And, perversely, it harms lower income English-speaking black kids the most. There absolutely should be a lawsuit about this - if you want to advantage certain ethnicities by focusing on primary language, do it at a charter school. [/quote]

well, then Oyster and Marie Reed, who do the same thing, should be sued as well. [/quote]

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