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[quote=Anonymous]Rhee was the worst possible person to come into play when DCPS was finally freed with Mayoral control.  I believe she was thrust upon Fenty by her fans in NY (Bloomberg, Klein, etc) as part of a larger corporate scheme that continues to supply fat fees tied to contracts with numerous testing companies and the like. Before Rhee we were constrained in a terribly dysfunctional system but community/parent involvement and innovation was rewarded --remember the "10 autonomous schools" that Janey was promoting, so school communities could be creative and address the particular needs of each school?  Instead, the momentum that could have been harnessed by an experienced actual Superintendent more interested in DCPS than a national spotlight was killed.  Our schools that could have soared once OPEFM took over the nasty business of facilities/modernization from the super. office have largely not improved academically, hordes of our best teachers have left the system or been fired, the achievement gap is wider.  And this former DCPS parent, who was able to boost the lives of kids without resources simply by being involved serves only my own family now, paying for private school.  This is the real problem with placing robots in charge of schools and shutting out real community input. Parents who have a way out, unless they are in privileged W3 or pockets of Cap. Hill, leave for charters or pay for private to get out of the one-size-fits-all bureaucracy striving only for "proficiency" and memorization.  The students left behind in still terrible DCPS schools lose out on the improvement that came with more economic diversity.  Sad.[/quote]

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