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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting comment from Reddit. Does anyone remember the post here about the teacher who left CHEC after two months this fall?

Columbia Heights Educational Campus is an absolutely disaster of a school and I have no idea how DCPS doesn’t do something about it. The principal is a horrible woman with a bad reputation who works her teachers with ridiculous demands and is constantly going against the contract. Their turnover is ridiculous. I know of 3 teachers who left this year before winter break alone. They also have huge gang problems, lots of issues between the ms13 kids and 18th street kids yet the administrators (all young and inexperienced) pretend that nothing is wrong. About half of the students speak no English yet are forced to take AP English language and AP English Lit and teachers cannot fail them. The students know this and take advantage. All of the ESL students have to pass their classes, teachers have been punished for failing more than 5% of their students, even though they don’t turn in work, don’t understand what’s going on, and miss 1-2 days a week. Tons of drugs too. A student was apparently caught using synthetic drugs and tried to throw herself in traffic right in front of the school a few months ago. I would love to see someone do an exposé on what really goes on at Columbia Heights.[/quote]

there was a whole website blog about CHEC around 2010, posted lots of emails showing how awful this place was (DC urbanteacher blog I think). Was there an investigation, no Tukeva won principal of the year! Just like Ballou and other schools DCPS rewards principals who do their bidding and don't spill the beans! Previous cheating at McKinley tech reported in the post maybe about 4 years ago, same thing the principal who was accused became principal of the year a couple of years later!  It's all a sick joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote]

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