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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will repeat my prior statement. [b]Only someone who earns a paycheck from DCPS or WTU or has some equivalent vested interest could argue that the school system isn't better off now than it was before Rhee. In all honesty, I expected you WTU lackeys to try and argue that demographic shifts and gentrification would have happened anyway with the economic growth of DC and that, although things are better now, they'd have even better than they are now without Rhee.  I mean,  that'd be a BS argument, but it would at least play the cards as they lay.  What you two are doing is just laughable and sad.  You should get outside the teacher breakroom and WTU meetings and get some much needed perspective.[b][/b]

The more of your BS and whining and "me, me, me" crap I read on DCUM the less sympathy I have for teachers. People like you have taken lefty liberals like me who grew up in houses with teachers and completely turned me the other way. The fewer of you teaching my kid, the better.[/quote]

I posted the two posts you are referring to, one after the other, the first about Rhee's education campuses, destruction of MS, and her decision to vest feeder rights for OOB kids in 2009 that has caused tremendous overcrowding at Ward 3 schools from Janney to Deal to Wilson.  I also posted about the cheating scandal, the snobbery towards SWW, and how the recession had more of an impact than Rhee (at least in Ward 3).  In other places families may just be delaying moves to Moco.

[b]I am not and have never been a teacher.  I am white and live in Ward 3.  I have several children who have been at one DCPS and two charter schools where for the most part they got excellent educations but still have had some bad teachers at our JKLM and the charters, but at least at the charters it is not all up to one teacher.  I am not a fan of Rhee or Henderson and NEVER will be.  I think Rhee was an unethical opportunist who has made money off her "success" in DC when actually she created more problems than she solved, and Kaya Henderson is not only following in her footsteps but is stupid to boot, and I am not alone in my opinions on these matters. I am, however, exceedingly grateful that their failures have increased the number, variety, and caliber of charter schools in this city.  [/b][/quote]

Wow. You and your kind need to get your story straight.  Was it her failure that led to charter schools, or was that her master plan and she succeeded in propping up charters?

People in Ward 3 JKLM-land have no concept of the improvement in the schools over the last 15 years because your schools haven't seen the dramatic improvement (they had less distance to close). But I get your objection to OOB kids in your schools. And your objections to spending money on any schools not in Ward 3. Things should have stayed as they were; and DCPS should only spend money on the schools in your neighborhood. I feel you, girl.[/quote]

You do not feel me, chica, and you do not know me.  Things in Ward 3 are not as they were pre 2008, when most upper SES families did not attend even their public elementary schools (unless it was Mann).  The parents spend the money in Ward 3, not the school system. Mann fundraising puts an assistant teacher in every classroom, not DCPS.

Blame Kaya for your empty high schools and Duke Ellington bleeding money while its students commit residency fraud.  We went to Mann because 40 years ago it was the only school kids attending my private school came from.  Had no intention of staying in the public school system for the long haul.  Were not victims of the recession, but rather attracted by a particular charter school that catered to our kids' strengths.  And Mann until its recent renovation was an absolute dump physically so it had nothing to do with the building.  My girl spent her first year at Latin in a trailer that confined the entire fifth grade so ditto.  And my other kids had the experience of trailers during the Mann renovation.

My objection to OOB kids in overcrowded schools [b]anywhere[/b] is that until Michelle Rhee came in on her broom there were no feeder rights.  Pre 2009 kids had to lottery in to every new school up the chain.  Instead of reducing the boundaries and diversity of Wilson, the DME should have had the guts to cut this off given that the 2008 recession had created a critical mass and there is a serious overcrowding problem.  No skin in the game - none of my kids going to Wilson, sad about the budget cuts for Wilson's sake, same way sad about the no principal for Walls.........

Michelle Rhee was tasked with cleaning up DCPS.  Had she done so, there would not have been the massive flight to charter schools for those who would not or could not move.  Rhee's utter failure to do that is reflected by the rise in number, popularity, and diversity of charter schools - from KIPP and DC Prep to Yu Ying, LAMB and Mundo Verde, to Washington Latin and BASIS DC.  She had no control over charter schools and their popularity and the fact that they now serve half of the DC population absolutely reflect her failures.

Feel me all you want, girl, but you getting on my last nerve because you don't have the least idea where I'm coming from, who my family is, or what school my kids are at now.  We can't afford to discriminate because except for me ain't no one white in my family or anyone who comes close.  We already started having talks with my boys about what you do if the cops ever stop you because it is life or death out there and my husband grew up on those mean streets in New York.  Shit I never imagined or thought about that now scares me to death.

So our kids are most comfortable around other kids who are not white, and we at a charter that is not majority white, where they see kids of color like my husband making it every day.  Very different and much better than being the token x unidentifiable mixed race kid in a Ward 3 school classroom.  Far from Ward 3 in a school where kids of color are succeeding every day, but many speak the same way my MIL's family do and still get good grades.  Interesting mixture of deliberate bad grammar and high academic achievement.  They can be as ghetto as they want as long as they keep bringing home those A's.  And they know the difference between joking around and the real thing, which is also inside the school sometimes, and stay far away from it.  Proud of my kids, proud they succeeding in that environment, wasn't good for them to be tokens, and not have any high achieving friends but white kids.

We doing well, girl !!!!!!!!!  And we not in Ward 3 anymore.  You feel me????????[/quote] Slow clap! This could have come straight from a Rosa Guy novel![/quote]

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