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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people could stop arguing about whether the suburbs or the city are better for a minute, please note that one of the main reasons there was cheating which led to this teacher's firing was because of the pressures the administration put on teachers to make sure their students improve on DC CAS. The article notes that DC CAS accounts for 50% of a teacher's score whereas in other school systems it counts for a much smaller percentage.

And who was it that instituted this kind of lopsided teacher evaluation? And instituted it without a trial period, so any flaws could become apparent before they were used to evaluate teachers?  And who was it that dismissed subsequent reports of cheating? The heroine of many folks in DC's white middle class, Michelle Rhee - who continues to make scads of money as a consultant despite the mess she left behind.

Yes, I think the system will improve as more middle class people decide to stay in DC and raise their kids here.  But we've got to do a better job of picking our chancellors.  Rhee lacked the proper experience to run a school system and this article shows us one more reason why.

Of course, it's also deeply embarrassing that DCPS is saying that this teacher would have been fired anyway even if she had reported her suspicions about cheating. (That can't be blamed on Michelle Rhee - other mindless administrators did that.)  Jeez, it's like the Supreme Court saying that a condemned man has to die anyway even though there may still be evidence exonerating him....oh wait.

At any rate, as a former DCPS parent, I find this story deeply embarrassing and you folks in FCPS may laugh all you want.  You  have every right to![/quote]

Just want to point out that, for most DC residents, and DCPS parents, you guys just look silly. There's a million and one reasons why DCPS isn't a world-class school system. People are fighting every day to make it so. Pointing at one person, or one story, and saying, "See! There you go! This is why the system is broken!" just makes you look incredibly myopic.

And Michelle Rhee is in serious danger of becoming a mash-up of Emmanuel Goldstein and Moby Dick for you guys. [/quote]Sigh...okay, I don't have time to write a book about DCPS but of course, dear pp, Rhee wasn't the only reason that DCPS is broken - but she was responsible for instituting this broken testing system, which happened to lead to the teacher being fired.  Her failed leadership [i]is[/i] ultimately to blame for this particular problem.  But, no, I dare say she wasn't to blame for bathroom stalls not having doors, for example - that predated her, but then again, this thread is not about the structural problems of DCPS schools.  It's about a talented person who went through a lot of unnecessary pain and struggle because of a flawed test and her students who lost the benefit of her teaching.[/quote]

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