Anonymous wrote:

This is precisely the reason the cheating needs to be throughly investigated and not brushed under the rug. She was fired because students who couldn't read "scored" advanced on the DC-CAS at a previous school.

amen to this!!

Agreed. Kaya's refusal to investigate speaks volumes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many DC families have only stayed because they are underwater on their homes. Once it rises, absent a good school, the middle class will flee DC again.

Don't be such a silly.

http://www.zillow.com/local-info/DC-Washington/Capitol-Hill-home-value/r_121685/

People may be underwater in the greater Dumfries-Manassass metropolitan area, but most middle-class DC folks have plenty of equity in their houses..even those who bought during the bubble.

Exactly. I don't understand people who revel in predicting DCPS's impending doom. The OP is the best example. Why such glee? Why do you want it to fail? Why are you so invested in believing (wrongly) that families are going to abandon DCPS? Just schadenfreude?

Anonymous wrote:Many DC families have only stayed because they are underwater on their homes. Once it rises, absent a good school, the middle class will flee DC again.

Don't be such a silly.

http://www.zillow.com/local-info/DC-Washington/Capitol-Hill-home-value/r_121685/

People may be underwater in the greater Dumfries-Manassass metropolitan area, but most middle-class DC folks have plenty of equity in their houses..even those who bought during the bubble.

Many DC families have only stayed because they are underwater on their homes. Once it rises, absent a good school, the middle class will flee DC again.

11:08, I give you two other DCPSs one is Dekalb County Public School System and the other is Duval County Public School System. Middle-class don't have enough babies. Therefore, if we only depended on that group we would be down to a set of schools that would probably be all charters.

Anonymous wrote:More middle-class DC residents in DC, with the same number of poor folks, and all these problems will be solved.

Why would a middle class family move to DC with all the problems with public schools and over priced housing?! Most people choose private schools for a reason DCPS Central Office is a nightmare. There isn't much hope that DCPS is improving.

Anonymous wrote:how do you get to that conclusion?

Anonymous wrote:More middle-class DC residents in DC, with the same number of poor folks, and all these problems will be solved.

Point me to a middle-class school system that is as profoundly broken as DC's. Point me to a school system in the developed countries that is as poor as DC's which is successful. Fixing DCPS means changing the ratio of poor to middle-class kids.

how do you get to that conclusion?

Anonymous wrote:More middle-class DC residents in DC, with the same number of poor folks, and all these problems will be solved.

More middle-class DC residents in DC, with the same number of poor folks, and all these problems will be solved.

"But Wysocki was worried. Some students who had scored advanced in fourth grade, she said, could barely read."


This says it all.

As a former teacher who left the "profession" I can tell you that cheating is rampant in schools and not just DC schools though urban schools have a real reason to cheat. One of my all time favorites are the administrators who change the attendance data so that a kid who was absent fifty times is listed as being absent five times. When you ask they'll say that the parent wrote a note.

This is precisely the reason the cheating needs to be throughly investigated and not brushed under the rug. She was fired because students who couldn't read "scored" advanced on the DC-CAS at a previous school.

amen to this!!

This is precisely the reason the cheating needs to be throughly investigated and not brushed under the rug. She was fired because students who couldn't read "scored" advanced on the DC-CAS at a previous school.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for making this dedicated teacher available to FCPS, you DCPS nuts with your IMPACT matrix that doesn't account for past manipulation of test results.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/creative--motivating-and-fired/2012/02/04/gIQAwzZpvR_story.html

What a fiasco. You can just hear some of the barely literate administrators in DCPS justifying their decision to fire this young teacher.

Tragic. How appropriate that she benefited in the end. I'm so glad we're in a high-performing charter that doesn't have to deal with this system!

Thanks for making this dedicated teacher available to FCPS, you DCPS nuts with your IMPACT matrix that doesn't account for past manipulation of test results.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/creative--motivating-and-fired/2012/02/04/gIQAwzZpvR_story.html

What a fiasco. You can just hear some of the barely literate administrators in DCPS justifying their decision to fire this young teacher.