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[quote=Anonymous][quote=JSteele]What I opposed was Rhee meeting with a small group of parents and agreeing to fire the principal without any discussion with the parents of students who were already attending the school. I think it is sad that the families whose efforts destroyed a very good program now refuse to attend the school. [/quote]

Hold on a second. You can't blame the parents for what Rhee did. It was Rhee who did the damage here, not the in-boundary parents.  What should the parents have done? Said "We refuse to meet with you, because we know that in the next 18 months, between now and when you fire Pope, you're not going to meet with the Hardy Parents"? And they should have known this how, by being psychic?

It's like blaming the guy who ordered a pizza when the pizza delivery guy crashes on the way to deliver.

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Further, the Palisades families who want another MS? You have one. Hardy. You made the noise and got your way...now make it work.[/quote]

The people agitating for a new middle school are a very distinct group from those who agitated for Pope's removal. The anti-Pope movement hit its high point in the spring of 2006, when then-candidate Fenty promised people in the Hardy district that if elected he would get rid of Pope. That was 5+ years ago, the kids of the folks behind that are in high school now. The people pushing a new middle school are parents of kids in the early years of elementary school who saw the mess at Hardy and have given up hope on the situation there coming together in time for their kids.  There is actually quite a rift between the younger families pushing a new middle school and the anti-Pope old guard, who feel that giving up on Hardy is a repudiation of what they worked for.

Blaming the current parents for what the previous generation did is like blaming the pizza driver's crash on the guy who now lives in the house where the guy who ordered the pizza used to live.[/quote]

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