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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/DCWard7teacher/status/1459250119438704644?s=20[/twitter]

I saw this today and it made me think.

We know that Bowser and politicians in general get a lot of money from school privatizers – from the Walton and DeVos crew, and from the big charter school corporations.
(This is one of the biggest problems with charters. They distort our political process by injecting huge amounts of money into it.  In contrast, public school parents don't have big PACs that are donating to politicians that defend them – donating to pro-public-school and pro-democracy politicians.)

If Bowser really wanted to harm public schools, what would she being doing differently?
- She appointed Ferebee, a Chancellor trained by pro-charter Broad, who works hard to deceive parents and keep them in the dark.
- Bowser's team seems not to care about students who are above the median. Once a kid gets a 5 on PARCC they're not Bowser's problem anymore.
- Bowser's school opening plan was the right idea but the implementation was a chaotic farce and its making parents dislike DCPS.
- Now Bowser is appointing another school privatizer to run OSSE.
- DCPS Central Office is a total mess, and not getting better.  No vision, no improvement.
- OSSE is a total mess.
- Instead of building two schools in Shaw, a middle school and New Banneker, Bowser chose to divide those communities against each other, trying to get the Banneker people to hate the Shaw middle people and vice versa.

Seriously, if Bowser wanted to hurt DCPS, what could she be doing differently?

Can we get a next mayor who cares about DCPS, please?!

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Look. There is no grand plan or conspiracy. DCPS has been a political entity, a middle class jobs program and a playground for leftist experimenters for many years. The adults in charge are lame and so the schools are lame. That’s why almost 50% of public school families choose charters and why charters are a huge part of the solution here in DC[/quote]

Love it when the Republicans arrive to a DC thread.  (Your radical word choice and ideas make it clear, so please don’t protest.)

I know it’s hard being in a city where people try to improve society for working people and not just sell out the government for billionaires’ profit. I know it’s hard to be a pro-billionaire anti-democracy radical if you live in DC because you have to hide your actual horrible ideas, and only post them here on DCUM.  But really— few actual real-life parents agree with you. Please stop. Maybe move to a red area and stop bothering us.

Also:

The whole problem is that there is no grand plan.
And that the adults in charge — Bowser, Ferebee — are lame.
It’s nice you agree.

I think the next mayor will hopefully have a lot more focus on DCPS.
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I’m PP and the degree to which you are completely wrong about my political leanings demonstrates the problem with trying to solve education issues in DC with didactic progressive tropes.  Open your mind, dump out the preconceived notions, really look at what’s working ( or not ) for students in our city and then we’ll talk. In the meantime, you are predictable boring and ineffective[/quote]
+1 Anyone that tells you to move somewhere else because you have a different opinion is a jerk who should be ignored.[/quote]

Agreed.  I really try to ignore them, but they are so LOUD.  The minute you make clear that you aren't 100% on-board their bus they squeal and shout.[/quote]

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