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[quote=Anonymous]A lot of people talk about Michelle Rhee.  What about Kaya Henderson?  She is far worse, and people on the outside have no clue.  She hires her friends to be principals, and they lack credentials, experience, people skills, and much more.  They are the most mean-spirited, incompetent school leaders I have ever met as an educator in DCPS and parent.  Most parents are not aware that the system is losing its most talented teachers because there is total cover up of anything that looks or sounds negative.  One hundred teachers who need their jobs and came into this profession with enthusiasm and a desire to change lives is a reflection of the chaos, poor leadership, and low morale found throughout DCPS.  If you ask the average teacher what he or she thinks about Chancellor Henderson, Jason Kamras, the instructional superintendents, and the principals in this public school system, they will tell you they have a low opinion of all them, and they wish all of them would get put out of their jobs because they're destroying our schools.

The sad part of this discussion is some folks look at 100 and see a percentage; I look at 100 teachers leaving, and I see human beings who have given up on fighting for basic things like computers, books for students, paper, a day when you're not retaliated against or yelled at by a cruel supervisor who has little experience with running a school, and a year without the IMPACT evaluation system.

Rhee got rid of many phenomenal teachers who were put on a list by their principals to be fired just because they were not LIKED or did not kiss up enough or spoke out about things too much.  The public has no idea how that whole process worked and how much what the principal said allowed that principal to get you thrown out of your job.

My heart breaks when I think of all the inspiring leaders we had before Rhee and Henderson who cared about students and knew how to support their teachers.  These were leaders who knew how to manage without bullying and without being petty and retaliatory.  If you don't know anything about the horrible leaders we have running DC public schools, then you certainly do not work in the schools today.  Maybe our new mayor will let Henderson go and give us a fresh start.  I hope so.[/quote]

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