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[quote=Anonymous]I knew that when Fenty was kicked out and Gray and the pro-teacher union came in things that directly help the quality of life for kids and their families would be cut loose without a thought. This aftercare cut is a direct shot to the stomach of lower income working families--upper-middle class families like ours in ward 3 don't like this cut but we'll manage--I can't believe there is no outrage directed at Gray over this! Fenty would never have let something so egregious happen. How do you just say "sorry, screw you guys; you've got a month to figure something out here..."

[b]Are you people who voting for Gray feeling this now?[/b] Old "phone it in" Aunt Joanne or whatever kept her teaching job by the skin of her teeth, but for years to come the kids and parents of DCPS are going to suffer for that--this aftercare thing is just one of the more visible ways. Believe me not ALL schools are losing aftercare. Just the ones with parents who were cheating the system and not paying or not paying enough. The population at Deal could have afforded to pony up $500 per advisory for aftercare--but the PTA was too lame to demand that people do it. Deal teachers are "sick of doing aftercare" so now. its. just. gone. Deal lost its great principal (Kim)and the school is slipping into the hands of "old school DC crap--lack of accountability, lack of responsiveness to parents requests and students needs--that apathy is palpable. I am so, so disappointed by the direction things are going. And our PTA needs to get a clue and hire a real company like the one at Janney and Murch so we can have meaningful study halls and clubs that are not run by bored entitled teachers--but rather active young people who are out there looking for jobs. [b](there are plenty of these types who are in local colleges studying for education degrees at AU and Catholic)[/b]--[b]PTA Presidents please discover the internet and comb the sites!)[/b] I hope the new principal at Deal will have grown a pair over the summer and stand up to the teachers. After last year's performance, it doesn't seem likely. Grrrrrawr.[/quote]

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