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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there parents who really still believe their whiteness and money didn’t directly influence their ability to impact this school this quickly? I mean beleive what you gotta believe about WHY you felt PJ had to go but the fact that he was removed and HOW he was removed is directly related to ya’lls clout in this City. To believe otherwise is naive and absurd and as others have tried to point out—reeks of your privilege and cluelessness.  Do you believe if you were an upset group of Ward 8 parents any of this would have happened. Your collective refusal to acknowledge this makes it difficult to take any of you seriously.

It doesn’t matter that everyone at DCPS is black. You all represent the richest (and whitest) Ward in the City. DCPS knows who they CAN and CANT ignore. I don’t excuse any of it…but for Christ sake stop trying to deny it.

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It was impressive that the parents were able to get organized in the way they did. That reflects the resources in terms of time, knowledge, organization, etc that parents were able to being to the problems.

I haven't seen any posts disputing that.

What I have seen is posters rejecting the idea that no change should happen because it's not also happening somewhere else that maybe it should be. That seems to be what you are saying:  How dare those Hardy parents speak up when others don't/don't get heard?!

That's a silly conclusion.

What posters have said is that *all* parents should be heard and, if some are getting dismissed, them let's address that.  But deciding that no problems should be fixed so all parents are equally unheard is a bizarre path to fairness.[/quote]

This is exactly right. I don’t think anywhere doubts that there is such a thing as institutionalized racism, but accusing Hardy parents of racism because they took issue with PJ’s performance is beyond the pale. If there are examples of cases where parents at EOTR schools where similarly outraged at the performance of their school administrators and were ignored, it would be great to hear about them. It would greatly benefit DCPS for other PTOs and parents to learn how to organize like they did at Hardy. I don’t doubt though that there are those here who want nothing less for that to happen, hence their faux outrage at how effective it was.[/quote]

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