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We disagree.  I think the schools are much better than they were 10 or 15 years ago. There are many more schools that I'd want my kid attending. Some charters, some DCPS that weren't good options when I moved to DC. Perhaps you feel the system was just the same before Brent, Murch, Maury and the charters were viable options.  I simply don't. [/quote]

NP. It's interesting that the school's you named are all on capital hill. The notion that Rhee made the DCPS schools better is an asinine notion. At least for the schools in Brookland and Woodridge, Rhee decimated them. What Rehee did do was provide the remaining middle class families in the area who were giving DCPS a go  a valid, guilt-free reason for abandoning these schools to the families who had neither the financial or political will to improve the schools. Rhee took a Blue ribbon, momtessorie elementary school with good numerical stats and provided five hours of weekly Spanish and tuned into a school for PS3 to 8. She removed the entire Spanish curriculum and called the school a stem school. Interesting, since the school had absolutely no facilities for science experiments, computer labs, etc.  The school was without a gym, or even an acceptable playing field for the older children to exercise and release energy. I, and apparently many other families, had no desire for my 4-year old DC to be in an environment among teenagers and their raging only reason to send your DC to said school was because of lack of options. Guess what, the middle class families exercised their options. Kaya 's administration put the nail in the coffin when momtessorie was taken away from the school. A couple of years ago, out of curiosity, I looked up the school's scores and was not surprised that they had plummeted. DCPS has a very hard job in getting Brookland and Woodridge parents to return to DCPS.  They started with recreating two middle schools, McKinley and Brookland. I don't know if it's enough for the middle class parents, but surely DCPS can do something for the other children.

And yes, I am one of many who believes that Rhee's primary job was to decimate a tenuously struggling public school system and push it off the cliff for privatilization. She did hire private companies to take over some DCPS high schools.  Her protégée, Ms Henderson, readily testified that the middle schools should be privatized. And now, Ms Rhee is making her living off of the privatization of public schools. How quaint. [/quote]

When did Murch relocate to the Hill?[/quote]

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