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[quote=Anonymous]Someone on here once compared Rhee to Sarah Palin, and I think it's apt. At bottom, she's all about her own survival and gain, as evidenced by her decision to quit a job where she could have had a major impact on a bunch of kids who really needed help to go make big bucks as a consultant to frauds like Rick Scott. She has the same self-promotional instincts as Palin, and the same street-fighter impulses. And I'm someone who used to praise her on this board.

I will say this--like Sarah Palin, who actually did a few good things as governor of Alaska (probably not for the right reasons), there are some positive legacies of Rhee's tenure. Her brash, clean-house style did instill confidence in DCPS among a subset of parents who otherwise would not have invested in the system. So schools in Wards 2 and 3 are busting at the seams with folks who now believe in DCPS--that's mostly good news.

Unfortunately, she probably hurt the kids in the system who really needed help the most--the ones in failing schools who need more than a school can provide and in terms of education need intensive remediation but have been taught to the test instead. These are the kids she claimed her reforms were going to help, and it's pretty clear that she failed. And now the gap between Wards 2/3 and the rest of the city are even more stark because there's no longer room in the top schools for kids who in the past would have been able to attend OOB.

Because, like Sarah Palin, Rhee has a major martyr complex and no sense of personal accountability, she will never look critically at her work in DC or accept any responsibility for her failures. The small bit of good news is that Kaya Henderson, even if she comes from the same reform background as Rhee, seems not to have the same sort of narcissistic personality. [/quote]

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