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Bless your heart. It seems like you mean well and really want to understand, but the Hear Only What I Want To Hear disease has gotten you.

I'd love nothing more than to see DC schools improve. But that point went right over your head.

The reality is that criticizing teachers, trying to be condescending to someone (esp knowing NOTHING of who s/he is or their accomplishment, credentials, etc) whining because a teacher showed movies--especially after it's been fully explained WHY!--will not improve the system. If you don't like the way things are going in DCPS, do better for your children!

Other services have made improvements in the past 20-25 years, you say? Great! But until DCPS does, do better for your kids. If you're willing to work to improve the school system, DO SO! But criticizing and making demands that will benefit YOUR snowflake while ignoring the reality of the other 98% in the system does no good.

DCPS is concerned with the education of ALL of its kids. However, [b]the overwhelming majority is poor, black, traumatized, angry, and dealing with serious dysfunction at home[/b]. So what are they to do? Offer more foreign languages, more AP courses? Guess what? They've done that. But it hasn't worked. Fire and replace most of the teaching/principal corps every year? Done that too! Didn't work. Switch to a 100% organic menu? Guess what...

Understand[b] the issues in DCPS are larger than teachers, movie-showing and not having enough white kids.[/b][/quote]

The issues you cite are nothing that DCPS can solve (nor should be expected to, despite an odd, and perhaps desperate, expectation among some that it should).  These issues should be addressed by social services outside of (and earlier than) the schools.

What's wrong with parents expecting better of the system (and, yes, the teachers) for matters that are under the schools control, like whether teachers have reasonable time to pack up?![/quote]

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