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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd like to go back to the PE/Locker issue again.  So the boys got to go to PE for 2 weeks but the girls did not?  Why was that?  [/quote]

I'd also like to go back to this. Circumstances aside, parents really emailed the super about this? Just...wow.

How are your kids going to handle life? I ask in all seriousness, because this sounds detrimental to their development. [/quote]

Wait? You seriously think it was wrong for parents to complain about a sexist PE teacher + locked-with-no-explanation locker room meaning their kids got no PE for TWO weeks? And worse yet, had to sit and watch boys do PE? I think that is 100% where *of course* parents have to step in.[/quote]

It was not the PE teacher, it was a sub.  [/quote]

PP and the person two before that are quintessential DCPS responses. Deflection, failing to take responsibility, and trying to blame parents for abject failure on the part of the school.  "How will your kids handle future gross incompetence if you don't accept our gross incompetence?  Asking us to minimally do our jobs is harming your kids."

The person DCPS put in place to teach PE did something appallingly bad.  The fact that s/he wasn't the "regular" PE teacher is in no way whatsoever an excuse.  The fact that anyone thinks it IS an excuse is further evidence of total failure.

I can answer PP's question about how kids will "handle life" if school staff are, gasp, required to actually do their jobs.  Those kids will handle it much better than kids taught to accept incompetence, laziness, and failure to take responsibility for falling short.  In life, people who make excuses and/or allow blatantly discriminatory stuff to happen often end up getting fired (just like happened at Hardy).  I know because I've fired lots of people like this.

Adults who teach kids that it's OK to not do the work you were hired to do, shift blame for failures, and accept discrimination are not doing those kids any favors. They are setting those kids up for failure in life.[/quote]

You just know zero about hiring or the options of people available to long term sub. Keep blaming everyone and calling us incompetent as much as you want. It's truly water from a stone.[/quote]

I’ve hired a lot of people and fired a fair number, and I’ve been brought in to manage failing organizations.  There are always constraints, but success lies in acknowledging the constraints and acknowledging when you fall short.  DCPS does none of that, which you illustrate by your inability to acknowledge that the organization failed here.  [b]This is the culture of ingrained, continued failure.[/b] [/quote]

+100![/quote]

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