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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Janeese Lewis George says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school. [/quote]

Wait, did she really say that??? :shock: [/quote]

No, I don't think she did, but I think I know how this misinformation came to be: 
1) In some survey (I think the WTU survey), Lewis George said she supported "more differentiated professional development" ...if you read it, you can tell it means "professional development that is differentiated better" not "more professional development"
2) Matt Yglesias then tweeted a screenshot of it and said something along the lines of: Lewis George is calling for less classroom time
3) People then accepted his totally incorrect reading of it and retweeted it saying oh no she wants less class time

The bottom lines are: Lewis George didn't advocate for less classroom time - Matt Yglesias made that up, and if you're annoyed about half-day Wednesdays, that is not actually a mayoral issue because the mayor is over DCPS but doesn't set policies like that for charters and only charters do half-day Wednesdays. [/quote]

This is Janeese talking out of both sides of her mouth, per usual. She came out in favor of PD days, then, when the inevitable blowback came, pretended that didn't necessarily mean less classtime and came up with this meaningless "professional development that is differentiated better" phrasing. [/quote]

The basic trade JLG has made with the teachers union throughout her career is that she gives them carte blanche over her education policies in exchange for them giving her its get-out-the-vote operation at election time. [/quote]

I am a teacher, I was in every meeting we had with her. This is not true, stop lying because as a whole we didn’t support McDuffie, [b]who refused to meet with us or really anyone for that matter.[/b]

If you have been paying attention teachers would like less PD days or more meaningful ones. Also you want the experts who teach children to have NO say in policies? That’s a very odd stance.[/quote]

Thank you for saying this. McDuffie and his team have barely engaged on education issues. [/quote]

They skipped the education debate. Regardless of where you stand on JLG I can't fathom voting for a guy who has put in basically zero effort and refuses to do any actual constituent work.[/quote]

Janeese wants to slash funding for charter schools, reduce classtime so teachers can get more time off and opposes raising education standards, including created gifted and talented programs. No thanks. I want someone who won't just do the bidding of the teachers union. [/quote]

You must be the same person. Stop lying. I am a teacher, the union does not want this. You also must not be engaged in education, teachers have testified FOR higher standards not against.

There will be no slashing of charter funds. Tell me where JLG says this.

It’s fine to want someone else to win, albeit a poor choice if you have children in public schools -what’s not fine is lying out of your ass to slander a candidate but also the very people who teach children.
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The budget that's currently before the city council would slash charter funding. The charter community has gone completely ape shit over it. Has JLG said she opposes it? She filled out a questionnaire saying teachers need more PD days. Where has she said she wants to raise educational standards? She's never said any such thing. She's been in the government for almost a decade. [/quote]

Where’s the link to the questionnaire? I have it (as a teacher) and I do not see anything about more PD. Also you do realize more PD wouldn’t mean LESS school, it’d mean more days for teachers. 🙄

The charter community? No, a few of them. Because that 10k is a lie. It’s about $900.
Have those few also gone crazy gotten upset for the millions DCPS loses for kids charters send to them after count day?

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Bowser and Janeese think the DC government should spend $9,675 more per child in DCPS than kids in charters.

https://dccharters.org/blog/the-numbers-dont-lie[/quote]

Tired of this and forming responses you people obviously don’t get, here I had AI explain it to you like you’re 12.

Okay so imagine you and your neighbor both get an allowance from your parents.

You get $100. Your neighbor gets $100. Same, right?

But your neighbor says: “That’s not fair — you actually get way more than me!”

Here’s how they’re counting it:

•	Your parents fixed your bedroom roof this year. That cost $500. Your neighbor says “that’s basically extra allowance for you!” — but… it’s not. It’s your parents maintaining their own house. Your neighbor rents their room from someone else and already gets a separate housing stipend for that.
	•	Your parents pay into a pension for your babysitter under a contract they signed. Your neighbor’s family hired a different babysitter with totally different terms. But your neighbor is counting your babysitter’s pension as part of your allowance.
	•	Your parents paid for a doctor’s visit to figure out if you need extra help in school. Your neighbor says that’s extra money for you — but it’s a service you needed, not cash in your pocket.

When you add all that up, your neighbor says you’re getting $10,000 more. But if you only count the actual spending money — the part that’s actually comparable — the real difference is closer to $488.

Some of their complaints are fair. But the $10,000 number is built to sound dramatic, not to be accurate.[/quote]

More like you have two kids.  You fund one kid’s college costs and not the other.  You tell the other kid it is fair and the college costs don’t count because they were in a 529 account.  [/quote]

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