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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope Jackson didn't write his own bio... it's full of typos. With that said, I hope he is successful at Amidon-Bowen. It won't be easy to come in with a pending renovation, the newly built day care center (so foolish not to coordinate but that's dcps/dgs for you!) a very economically and racially diverse community, the departure of some very long-tenured staff, and a previous principal who was there for 8 years and thus is the only principal any parents or students are likely to have known.[/quote]

The optics look really bad for them to move a white man into a predominately black school to lead. They should have chosen a black man or a black woman to lead Amidon-Bowen.[/quote]

I don't know who else applied for the job. He might have been the best option. And the school is increasingly diverse. If he can get the test scores up and cope with everything else, that will be wonderful. I don't believe the principal necessarily has to be the same race as the majority of the students, especially if the staff as a whole are diverse.[/quote]

It seems as if the leaders are no longer reflective of the schools unless they are in the NW. Do the parents of some of the lower performing schools get a say? Do they even matter to DCPS? Where are the Black women principals?[/quote]

Dr Reid at Barnard, Carmen Shepard Thomson, etc[/quote]

Happy to see a shout-out here for two of the longest serving and most effective DCPS principals of any race or gender! (Speaking as a Thomson parent who has buddies at Barnard).

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