Reply to A Note from a Public School Mom of Three & a Candidate's Wife

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "A Note from a Public School Mom of Three & a Candidate's Wife"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Ok I'll vote for him if you think everyone else is more stuck in their position..............

Is that your position?[/quote]

My position is that you could remove education from the table completely and Settles is still the best candidate for the At-Large seat. Add education and it is not even a contest. As someone recently said to me, the only way you can find a candidate with whom you agree completely is to run yourself. I don't agree with Settles completely about the neighborhood preference issue, but since I'm not running myself, I am happy to support him.

The issue about cooperation instead of competition goes back to the entire structure of education in DC. We have the Deputy Mayor of Education, the Superintendent (OSSE), the DCPS Chancellor, the State Board of Education, and the Public Charter School Board. These groups are not working off the same sheet of music. Settles wants them all working together to achieve the best outcomes for our students rather than working either inadvertently or purposely to undermine each other.

[/quote]

Well said.  You forgot the Council also.  It's so incredibly frustrating to see so many great people, both at charters and DCPS schools, working so hard to build and maintain great schools, to be constantly hamstrung by this ramshackle mess that we have devised.  With the at times meddling help of Congress, of course.

And totally agreed about the way to look at candidates.  It shouldn't be about a single issue or set of issues, It should be about how a candidate approaches problems, and devises/decides on potential solutions.  Settles seems to approach things in the right manner.  I wish him the best, and hope that enough voters agree.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics