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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Voted for Bowser after having worked for the DC Government in the prior term (but no longer do). While I may not always have agreed with the decisions being made, once there is a chosen path, [i]shit gets done. [/i][b] I had no confidence that would happen under Robert White- he's a very nice guy, but comes off as far too much of a "people-pleaser" to take the sort of decisive action that is needed in the role.

Also,[b] shifting back from Mayoral Control of schools to an elected school board making operating decisions would be an unmitigated dumpster fire[/b]. [/quote]

I agree with this. Especially since DC has such low voter turnout and people are often incredibly uninformed about races below the mayoral/council level. The people who want this change want it explicitly so that they can pack that board with people who serve their interests. NOT the interests of the city or of the entirety of school children in the city, but their specific interests. But even a lot of teachers don't want this because when it comes to something like union negotiations, it really is easier/better for the union to be negotiating directly with the mayor/chancellor (so the mayor) than with a committee. It just would not work.

I would like to see Ferebee replaced and I do wish we could overhaul Central Office. Which Bowser is not going to do. It's a bloated office that sucks up resources without offering much value, in a district that needs those resources elsewhere. But the idea that an elected school board would be able to get that done is ridiculous.

It would have been great to get an actual pragmatist to challenge Bowser. White was more of an idea than an actual leader. Same with Palmer. A lot of progressives in this city don't seem to understand how city government actually works -- most of it is not high minded policy making. Almost none of it is. You can set an agenda, but at the end of the day you need concrete plans and the willingness/ability to grease the city's wheels to make it happen. I had very limited interest in sitting around waiting for White to figure that out.[/quote]

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