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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This will die down of course, but the stink is on Maret forever.[/quote]

I’d say the blowback is on Hardy as well.  The school looks like it puts students second, by using scarce on-site play space for a staff parking lot.  This reflects an “old DC” government mentality - that DC government employees come first, and services to customers and stakeholders is ancillary.[/quote]

The private school posters just don't seem to understand how different public schools are. The relationship between parents, school and administration is much more complex at public schools. Families aren't stakeholders at public schools the way they are at private schools. And there is a layer of administration -- downtown -- that just doesn't exist in private schools.

Most of the facilities decisions are made downtown, the in-building administration may be no happier about it than the parents. And the parents don't have nearly the voice they have at a private, where money for facilities comes from fundraising from the parent community. [/quote]

DCPS needs to adjust to the 21st century reality that the public schools are more diverse, and parents expect more.  When DCPS enrollment was overwhelmingly black and mostly poor, the school bureaucrats just assumed that families would accept whatever they dished out, and they largely did.  The fact that school principals are still addressed and referred to as “Principal [Jones] is a throwback to when principals were seen as authority figures whose decisions could not be questioned.  Even white patents in upper NW a decade ago were reluctant to speak up, lest they be seen as to demanding or greedy.

That’s changed.  The DCPS population is far more diverse and newer families aren’t as willing as their predecessors to put up with the bureaucratic bulkshit.  DCPS has to adopt a new service mentality that treats the students and their families as premier stakeholders. [/quote]

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