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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][quote]11:39 :  shout out to rhee?  got the ball rolling?  Wrong, not realizing it would kill his promise and lead to early demise, Fenty got the ball rolling by taking DCPS away from a dysfunctional school board and separating DCPS Ed. from DCPS Facilities, and his greatest success was hiring Allen Lew for buildings.  His worst failure and undoing was annointing Rhee and then standing by her no matter how idiotic her actions were.  She is literally a piece of garbage, stepped all over people to get her way and today has the nerve to show up with a book acknowledging she maybe could have done somethings differently, but will never apologize for firing -- indiscriminately -- and ruining the careers of -- numerous talented and wise principals and teachers.  No, I'm not a teacher.  I'm now a private school parent who can't stomach Kaya either.[/quote]
Wow, there's a lot going on there.

Another big shout out to Rhee for unlocking the gears.[/quote]

Quick history lesson. Fenty voted AGAINST mayoral control when he was on the council and GRAY pushed it through. Lew, Rhee, Tata and others were pretty much sanctioned by the real behind the scenes powers in this town. I don't doubt Rhee's intent, but she needed a boss who could guide and mentor her to stop cutting off her nose to spite her face. Fenty did her, and the city, a great disservice by drinking the kool aid.

Regardless, much of Impact and sweeping change Rhee gets credit for were developed by Henderson. But that's another story.[/quote]I was angry at Fenty about the mayoral takeover at first.  He never mentioned it when he ran in the Democratic primary.  He only brought it up when he ran in the general election - which of course was an after thought.  In this city, whoever wins the Democratic primary is going to be the next mayor.  I was very angry about Fenty running around the voters like that and I was opposed to the mayoral takeover.  [b]However, I later became convinced that it wasn't a bad idea after all EXCEPT that Fenty went and hired Rhee, who was a novice at administrating large bureaucratic systems.  Maybe if he had hired an effective leader (who knew how to hire other competent people) his story would have been different.  But his support for Rhee completely  poisoned my feelings towards Fenty, who I felt had betrayed me as a voter - especially because anyone who criticized Rhee was painted as someone who loves bad teachers and bad schools.  (Wow. She screws up and I'm a bad person for wanting to hold her accountable? Talk about irony.) But I am no longer opposed to the mayoral takeover of the schools.[/quote]
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OP here. sorry, busy work week. I'm glad these PPs were here to hold it down. My sentiments exactly. Rhee was incompetent. And arrogant. Bad combo. Plus fame-hungry. I disagree with a PP that she was thrust into the public spotlight. She did the reality stuff - fired teachers on TV. What? Putting aside whether or not those teachers deserved to be fired, I'm gobsmacked that she did it on tV and thought that was okay. This is a role model involved in helping us bring up our kids? No thanks.

I didn't think Stewart asked her tough enough questions, it seemed clear that she'd vetted them all - had answers that were just TOO ready to go, and she consistently side stepped his quesitons in a not very subtle way and said her same old tired song and dance. Me me me, here's why I'm so great. I disliked her going in, and that just made my skin crawl. I was disappointed that Stewart, who can really make people defend their position in a way that is real, went so easy on her.  [/quote]

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