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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I would attribute any issue your school has had with DGS to Mayoral control. Inability to respond to specific conditions in specific schools because only the Mayor is accountable and she had no one run against her. Meanwhile she hobnobs with developers and does nothing with the dchools. Mayoral control means DC is run by the DME, Chancellor, OSSE boss, Central Office and the PCSB.

I can feel that some like it that way. To me it’s profoundly undemocratic. Elites choosing for us. I get it. Some of us ARE the elites or like their choices. But I don’t like it. [/quote]

This starts to get to why I vehemently oppose mayoral control of the schools. There is actually zero accountability because all of the power is locked up with the mayor’s office. If you don’t like what’s happening in the schools, where can you go? Who will listen to you? More importantly, even if they will listen, what can they actually do?

If you who like mayoral control under Bowser, will you like it if someone else is mayor?

Elected school boards are not without challenges. But a system with multiple accountable parties is better than one where I feel hopeless that any change is possible because the only ostensibly accountable party stiff-arms all challenges.
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The Mayor is an elected official.  The SBOE are elected officials.  There's the same accountability for both (if one of the other is in charge of schools).  You can vote these elected officials out if you do not like them.

And to me, I don't see my elected officials below the mayor as responsive.  I write to them, they never write back.  They echo certain voices of their constituents, and not others.

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The SBOE has no power. The Council has virtually no power. That’s the problem. If you have an issue with the schools, the only person who has the power to address it is the mayor. [/quote]

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