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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree Abigail Smith would be a good choice. I think she understands the scope of the problems facing DCPS and would listen to parents and teachers. She really does care and doesn't seem arrogant. [/quote]

If you recall, several years ago, she wanted to do away with elementary school boundaries in favor of a system like Boston's, where parents are only guaranteed a spot at one of several schools in a local cluster.  Our local cluster would have included a school with a DC-CAS proficiency pass rate of 80% and two in the 30s.  Parents buying million dollar houses so their children could attend school #1 were really shaken up.  She was the architect of the madness. Parents rose up in protest all over the city, and not just in upscale neighborhoods like Upper NW and Cap Hill. She squandered far too much political capital in the process to make an effective chancellor.  The woman clearly lacks common sense in a big way. No thanks.

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To be equally as fair in presentation, most of those community meetings used DC CAS scores as coded race discussions. I'm not a charter fan and agree that was the wrong approach, but let's keep in mind that at some point DC will have to address its growing classist and re-segregating schools.

Personally I feel it needs to be an outside candidate, hopefully with Fortune 500 experience. I want a buisness woman, not an DC politico.[/quote]

We are black. We bought in Shepherd Park to attend the school. Shepherd is 80% black. We were mortified with that proposal as we paid a premium to go to Shepherd. Shepherd's CAS scores were significantly higher than cluster schools. My friends that bought near Burroughs felt the same. Also some clusters were 2+ miles away.[/quote]

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