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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OH this happened during the era when Arlene Ackerman was the Superintendent, rest her soul.

11:42, Now hold onto your coffee cup, the principal ended up being an Assistant Superintendent, as an out of court settlement.  So the absurdity is like pouring sugar into black coffee.  As an assistant superintendent he fell out of favor with Rhee and was banished off to over-seeing a warehouse of supplies.  Don't laugh.

The shame of it all, is that vindictiveness is so evident at DCPS, you haven't lived until you've been on the wrong side of headquarters.

The "off with your head" attitude can come early in the school year.  Yet, they will not lead on that you have a bull's eye on your back, it will upset the apple cart.

The Chancellor's staff is pretty transparent in who they like and don't like.

The days of being walked out of your school building was truly a power play and/or pissing match.  The rumor was if they liked you enough they call you to Central Office and give you the news.  But if they hated your guts or you had sorely pissed them off, they would escort you out of your school.

At one school they had the principal's replacement sitting beside her at the graduation, lyingly introduce the perspective new principal as a special guest to audience.  Graduation was at 10am over at 12noon, the princicpal got the news to report to Central Office at 2pm.  The new principal was moving in his boxes at 4pm.

Scandalous!!!

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Don't laugh? Too late. I was laughing when I read that statement. Then I had to go back and read it again to make sure I got it right.

It's too bad that the kids get the short end of the stick with all of this posturing and bullshyt that's going on with the adults. That was obvious in the 180 Days documentary. Ms. Minor was able to move on and find an even better position, but where did that leave the kids??? They're the ones who suffer. The capable, educated adults simply move on to greener pastures where they don't have to deal with as much bullshyt once they run off to the burbs.[/quote]

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