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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What keeps ward 3 going is the kids and parents in it -- not DCPS.

The "status quo" is the reform that's existed for the last six years and what the mayor and chancellor are calling to "stay the course."

The only "entrenched establishment" in DCPS is the one that the reformers created when they fired huge numbers of administrative staff, principals and teachers  and hired their own kind.  Thanks to IMPACT, all teachers know exactly what's expected of them and if they don't measure up, they are fired at the end of the year.

The great majority of teachers are now "effective" according to the standards DCPS reform has set - and still the schools are "failing."

It almost sounds like you're in a time warp -- making the same kind of accusations that the reformers were making when they arrived 6 years ago.

I hope you're right that there is a growing number of pissed off parents outside of ward 3 who want decent DCPS education for their kids in their own neighborhoods.  It's my feeling that it's only the parents who can force  the city to make changes to benefit your children.

The taxpayers are the city's customers after all.  The city should be working for you - not throwing good money after bad while your kids' education suffers (unless you're lucky enough to get a charter or OOB spot and willing and able to haul your kids across town.)

But remember when you organize yourselves, that you're taking on the reformers who have had the power under two very different mayors to make DCPS into the dysfunctional system it is today.

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You act as though "reform happened" and "it's already been tried" which is complete BS.  Rhee was only there from June 2007 to October 2010, and she met with a huge amount of inertia and resistance, and only a small part of her reform agenda was even put into place.  What she found was massive inefficiencies and waste in central office, which she was working on fixing, warehouses full of textbooks that weren't even being distributed, teachers who didn't even know the subject matter they were supposed to be teaching, and lots of other huge problems.  Only a tiny portion of those issues were addressed and dealt with, yet here you are pretending "it's already been tried".  And most of that proactive agenda has stagnated under Henderson.  Those problems still exist, and are still deeply entrenched, my friend.[/quote]

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