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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was a kid, summer was two weeks longer.  I don't remember teachers packing up towards the end of the school year, and I would have to believe that maybe they let school out early & then paid the teachers to stay over and clean out their classrooms and submit their grades.  Now, in their wisdom, DCPS has decided that the school year needs to be 14 days longer, but they don't extend the teachers' admin time.  So the last two weeks of school becomes admin time.  No the teachers can't take our kids out all day.  They need to stay in and pack. Newsflash: extending the school year didn't improve test scores.  It just makes the kids unteachable.

so, write off the last two weeks of school.  It's not like it used to exist anyway.  Hey, it's cheaper than summer camp[/quote]

This thread makes me hate DC parents even more than I did before I read it. (And, no, not a dcps employee.) [/quote]

Are you a DC parent? That would be ironic.[/quote]

Yes. And one increasingly wishing I was not.

I keep wondering how far we'd have to go outside the DMV ring to escape this relentless striver snob culture.[/quote]

I sit here laughing my highly ivy educated ass off at the parents trying so hard to seem above it all--when I know the reality to be that if you've really got it that good and you're so above the teachers and DC school system, you put your kids in private or go to the 'burbs and live your life. You don't whine and grovel at Henderson's feet to be loved and catered to. You take your privileged kids and LEAVE![/quote]

Perhaps if you were using your brain instead of your "highly ivy educated ass" you'd have less trouble with reading comprehension.

Obviously a lot of parents on this thread have in fact left the system.  I don't hear whining and groveling though, what comes through is righteous indignation.  The students, the taxpayers, and the citizens deserve better.  That's a statement of fact (in case you're using your eyes instead of your anus to take in information, proud though you seem to be of that skill).[/quote]

Righteous indignation does not come with attempts to down others and pretend to be so much better (and higher educated) than they are--while at the same time entrusting (or wanting to entrust) your children to their substandard care.

A lot of parents on this board constantly cry about how having their children in DCPS will raise scores, make the system so much better, etc. If only....Henderson would cater to us, kiss our asses, do what we want...Then comes that "righteous indignation" (as you call it) when no one from Central Office salivates, squeals with delight, claps their hands and jumps up and down at the thought that you'd give DCPS a chance.

Sure, the kids of DC deserve so much better for a school system. But this is not the 'burbs, ma'am. If you were so smart you'd realize that. If you're kids are in good privates, charters or suburban schools, stop crying and complaining. Be glad.  But don't think for a minute that what so many try to pull on this site is "righteous indignation" and genuine concern for the poors. You're pissed that you can't have your cake and eat it too. You can have the fun and experiences of living in a major city, but you can't have the suburban public school experience along with it.[/quote]

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