Reply to New Wilson Principal and the Beacon paper

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "New Wilson Principal and the Beacon paper "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]We're not at Wilson (yet) but I'm a DCPS parent and this has been an ugly spectacle to watch.

The first interview Martin had with the Beacon did NOT make her look bad, that's just how it landed here.

I've seen several posts stating that the scheduling system is new, and at least a couple saying that the snafus were the same at other schools.  But it seems that what happens at other schools doesn't really matter on DCUM.

My speculation is that a new leader facing the scheduling fiasco is spending much of their time dealing with it.  The only place where the Beacon issue became an issue is right here on DCUM.  Kudos go to the student editors for deftly laying out their case, and to the principal for letting them publish it.  It seems that people here wanted here wanted her to deliver a mea culpa via press conference, all they while gripe that she's made the issue a priority over everything else.

I think she's probably been pretty busy in the last week, yet she took time to find reasonable compromise on this subject that the community made [i]their[/i] priority.

But as I posted in another thread, I think her enthusiastic endorsement of Kaya Henderson was her most tragic mistake.  Not a dumb mistake, given that Cahill was supposedly fired for not raising scores at Wilson, and especially if that's a personal objective of her career as an educator. But it was an honest mistake of misperception that it's something most DCPS parents care about.  She couldn't have known it would raise the ire of parents who see that as a threat to the success of their higher achieving kids.  Kids who will do well no matter what.

I think the selection team, which I assume included parents, must have thought that her experience in Aspen would inure her from classist churn and make her less likely to bend to the will of parents accustomed to clout. I'm hoping they were right and that she'll be force for the good of the school.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics