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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.[b] The rest of us [/b]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]

And how can you know what "only DCPS teachers think" and that you're speaking for the "rest of us?"  And any chance that YOU are blinded by self-interest?  I'm happy that the school your kids are going to has improved -- don't assume it's because of "reform" and that reform has been a good thing overall.   It hasn't -- it's failed in it's primary objective -- narrowing the achievement gap, which has widened instead.  Not that narrowing it was ever possible, given DCPS limited understanding of how students learn. [/quote]

Saying "it hasn't" and speaking in certainties doesn't make so.  I don't think you understand that.  I'm not "assuming", I'm expressing my informed opinion. But I find it interesting that your response to that is that somehow my expressed opinion is an "assumption" while your statement is a "fact".

Are you really incapable of understanding this concept?  ANd where does your hatred come from? Were you or your spouse or mother or father one of the DCPS teachers let go? Seriously, you lack perspective. Why do you even bother to read or reply to anything when you "know" and everyone who doesn't agree with you is just wrong.  And not because you are relying on data, just cause you simply know it?

I feel even worse for you now.   [/quote]

The thing is, the achievement gap hasn't narrowed. that is a fact.   I have hopes for DCPS too and they are based on engaged parents and dedicated teachers and principals making a difference, in spite of the terrible management of the schools.   Henderson and her programs have been a huge failure. [/quote]

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