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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This film is powerful indictment of the Rhee/Henderson leadership.

Incredibly dedicated and caring faculty.  Terrific principal.  The problem?  DCPS.  This is a school system that has no idea what education is supposed to be.  Education is opportunity to learn. It's not test scores or other metrics.

DC Met needed books, computers, a science lab.  Additional staff to deal with the truancy and social problems of it's students.  Did you see the scene of that wonderfully talented music teacher loading up a U-Haul trailer full of instruments he personally provided?  And DCPS forced them to excess him?

Shame on you, DCPS, for not supporting this school and this principal.
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It was Rhee who was trying to fix the shocking problems at Central Office of schools not having books and other materials they desperately needed.  It was the prior DCPS administration that put that do-nothing, give-nothing infrastructure in place.[/quote]

Correct -- Rhee/Henderson are not the only ineffective school leaders DCPS has ever seen, just the most recent ones -- and the worst ones in my opinion, because they had  so much more authority, via mayoral control, than their predecessors, and they still made a mess of things.

How good is it that the books are delivered on time, if kids still can't read what's in them?[/quote]

What books, they may not be in the warehouse any more but there not in the classroom either. Discouraged from using textbooks, teachers write their own curriculum folks, we still don't have a comprehensive one.  Standards yes (Common Core) - curriculum NO!!!!![/quote]

Thank you for bringing that up.  Henderson and her staff decided to implement the Common Core Math Standards this school year, all grades in one year, without providing new textbooks that address the new standards.  Henderson has apparently admitted that she expects math scores to take a dive.  She has already said that she doesn't have to live or die by annual test scores.  It's Group 1 teachers that have to do that.[/quote]

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