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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a DCPS parent of a foster child.  Our elementary child
Was forced to share a History(social studies) text AND workbook With another child.  All the children had to share books.
I went to the teacher, school principal, school social worker and our council member about this with ZERO response.  I gave them two months to supply our child with his own book.

Response was "we are on this".... Two months of nothing.

One night after midnight, I found Michelle Rhee's email address and gave it a shot-- I sent her an email about the situation at 12:37am.  I figured I'd hear nothing.  I received a detailed response at 12:50am.  My son and his class had
Sets of text and workbooks by weeks end.

Say what you will it Rhee was the only person to get those books after months of begging.[/quote]

I believe you and I know of many other examples of this kind of responsiveness.

However she did nothing to make sure that the staff at your child's school had the ability or the means to get textbooks. Michelle Rhee ran a great help desk. She did nothing though, to put systems in place to address these sorts of issues. And then she quit.

But yes, she was really, really good at email.[/quote]Yes, she deserves some credit for things like getting the pp's child the textbooks so quickly but she is supposed to be a high-level manager who is skilled at putting systems into place so that overall textbook delivery works better because [i]she can't be everywhere all the time[/i]. And I think this is why it's hard for some folks to see her flaws - because she was very responsive over email and that was something new. After she removed Patrick Pope as principal of Hardy Middle School, she responded promptly to my email complaint about her move. It was nice that she responded via email but the fact is that this move was quite disruptive to the school and removed a highly competent principal from active duty in the school system for a year to supposedly create a middle school arts magnet program - which everyone knew there was no money for.  Today there's no magnet arts middle school and Pope is back leading Savoy Elementary School and just won a highly competitive arts grant from the Federal government for the school.  I'm glad to see he's back.  But Rhee wasted a year of his time and ours as parents and taxpayers to accomplish [i]nothing[/i].

I'd rather have someone in charge who was more effective in deploying staff and resources and less prompt about answering emails.[/quote]

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