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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My primary reaction to these scores is concern - and dismay.  DC/DCPS really needs to figure out how to help all the students in DCPS.  There are so many schools with scores below 10%, the MS in Ward and have 1-2% of the students tested proficient at grade level in reading and math and I think none or almost none are advanced.  That means less that [u]less then 10 students[/u] in grades 6-8 enrolled in DCPS in Ward 8 tested as on grade level.  [b]We as a city are failing to educate these kids[/b].  The difference between white and black,  white and Hispanic, the haves and the have nots  in D.C. is staggering.  I know this has been a focus of DCPS for some time but whatever they are doing is not working. I know this is nothing new (unfortunately) but it just makes me so mad and also sad.  I know people who work in these schools who try so hard and are so frustrated and discouraged by these scores.  I really want to know if there are [b]urban school systems that managed to turn around a significant number of struggling schools[/b].  It just feels impossible yet we as community need all of our children to be educated.

I just think the schools that are really struggling should be of more concern.[/quote]

That'a Michelle-RHee - phony school-reform talk.  Forget it.  Schools don't fail children.  Parents do - and sometimes it's because that cards are stacked against them.  Schools aren't
"turned around" -- society is.   It takes a while, especially if you've wasted years[b] punishing teachers[/b] and expecting miracles instead.[/quote]

Jesus lady, give it up. These tests are not about the teachers, they are about testing the readiness of the kids! If anyone in my company talked like DCPS teachers and made the institution about the employee instead of the customer, they'd be terminated.  But, or course, our employees are;t granted jobs for life and don't have the right to appeal terinations and stay on payroll as they work an administrative system designed to protect them.

Not about YOU!!!!!!!!!!![/quote]

Terminated -- that's rich -- teachers have been terminated by the dozens -- by the hundreds -- with no visible benefit to the kids.    Meanwhile, I can't think of one  DCPS administrator who been terminated for failing to follow through with their insane promises.  What "customers" have they served?[/quote]

OMG. You don't get it. Only DCPS teachers think this is about them vs administrators. The rest of us who are just trying to get our kids educated do not care about your noise. The students (and their parents) are the customers. And you simply can't say that the reform didn't work. Sorry, you can't know that.  I think it did.  I think Brent and Mary and other schools that are improving, and the fact that I'm still here and my friends are still here and people are willing to try to buy into the DC school system is directly correlated to the prior reforms.  You are free to disagree, but you simply can't "know" what you stated as a fact. You, ma'am, are blinded by your self interest and anger and cannot get out of your own way or find perspective.  I actually feel sorry for you. [/quote]

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