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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there are some teachers and a small group of parents who are VERY VERY angry at DCPS.  Then there are others who see things that could be improved.  The V.V. Angry people place all blame on the mayor, but don't really have any comprehension of how changing mayoral control would solve any of the problems.  They are just mad.  It's like the people that were so mad that there was a Black president that they voted for Trump.  It's not like he solved any problem at all, but that vote satisfied their need to "stick it to authority" or something.[/quote]

You’re missing some key parts of the puzzle. The people behind “End Mayoral Control” are the ones who are very unhappy about educational reforms that allowed for charters in DC and accountability for DC teachers, in the form of standardized assessments (PARCC) and IMPACT, which rates teachers on their effectiveness. These are seen as outgrowths of mayoral control and other reforms accelerated by Fenty/Rhee. One big unhappy group is the WTU.

The other piece of the puzzle is the mayor race. CM Robert White is running against Bowser and is using “end mayoral control” as a way to gain points against her by hand-waving about what a terrible job she is doing.

So yeah - If you want to go back to the days when we had no charter options, no way to measure the effectiveness of instruction, and no way to fire bad teachers … end mayoral control![/quote]

Ma’am sir are you an educator or in education? If not, then you have no platform to stand on in regards to Impact and PARCC[/quote]

Do you have an actual argument?[/quote]

Sure. You can read the 50+ page American university study on Impact, or any literature on PARCC.

Or you could spend six months in any DCPS school and see how biased IMPACT is depending on the admin.

Or you could continue to bury your head in the sand and think teachers are idiots who should be told what to do by a mayoral system that dehumanizes them.

But thanks for checking. I don’t really know why I bothered responding the DCUM tea leaves make it very clear where you all stand [/quote]

I get rated every year at my job. almost everyone does. [/quote]

Do you get rated on stuff that you have absolutely no control over? Why do you think Ballou, Woodson and Anacostia HS keep losing math teachers? One reason is that they get rated on impact for how well they are teaching grade level math (9th, 10th, or whatever grade level they teach) when the reality is that kids often come into HS at a 4th or 5th grade math level.[/quote]

Yeah, um most of us don’t have complete control over our working conditions and some of us do have harder assignments than coworkers and are evaluated on the same scale or rubric. Man, a lot of these teacher complaints seem really out of touch. Remember the teacher who thought the rest of us could buy all sorts of stuff on expense accounts like we all exist in some sort of 80s corporate utopia?[/quote]

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