Since Tubman is the topic---what is up with allowing the staff to park in the field area? Tubman got a great new turf field several years ago and my kid's Stoddert team plays there often. I couldn't figure out why the area between the playground and the field was really ratty-looking torn up dirt until I passed by during school hours and realized that Tubman lets its staff park in its playground/field area.

WTH? School got a brand new expensive playground/field renovation and instead of making it welcoming for kids, the school administration let the parking desires of the staff take priority? Metro, two major buslines and the under-utilized DCSA parking deck are all within two blocks.

(They do at least keep the cars off the astro-turf, so they aren't completely careless---just mostly careless.)

I believe that school has improved tremendously and the students have improved scores because of saturday school. MAny students who were low on their test scores were required to attend school on saturdays. Also instead of worrying about the new principal we should be focused on some teachers who should be fired. For instance a third grade teacher who apparently has been on watch should be fired. I have heard from students that she is always on her phone texting, telling them they are dummies when they get an answer wrong, and was seen smacking a student on the head!

Actually, the white Tubman president teleworks to his DC job. He and his wife (a former ANC rep) were incredibly upset about the former principal's exit (short notice days before the school year ended, abridged candidate search, etc.) They had devoted an entire year to the school only to be kept out of the loop when clearly this was in the works for a LONG time. They got along very well him--just not the general demographic of the school. So, they cut there losses and moved (since telework was an option).

Teachers want to leave because the student way students act. Huh? Just asking this question, when did the realization come during this 9-month school year?
This discussion about a principal who didn't want a white PTSA president, is what stuff reality television show are all about.

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Anonymous wrote:I have met the former principal in his new role, as cluster superintendent supervising my DCPS, and I am very impressed. I am sure it was a loss for Tubman when he left. I do think that a lot of staff turns over when a new principal comes in, and that that's not necessarily a bad thing, if the people who leave don't want to be a part of the new principal's vision for the school.

I second this. He does seem like he was an awesome principal.

I talked to someone IB for Tubman about that Post story - they told me the white PTA person wasn't "run off" but moved out of DC for a job relocation and it wasn't even remotely as contentious as portrayed in the Post.

I third this. Tubman is my IB school (don't attend though). I have intel, which supports that the PTA person moved out of state.

I'm not a Tubman parent, but I went to their open house and also visited personally with the principal this year about their special ed services in particular. The new principal struck me as young but very dedicated and energetic. I was pretty impressed that she agreed to meet with me; I wrote to principals at several schools to ask for meetings and most of them didn't even write back.

The school is certainly high-poverty, but it seems like they have some good stuff going on. For instance they had people there from Linda Mood Bell working with kids in groups of 2 kids to one adult on reading. Their test scores, for what those are worth, are higher than those at many other high-poverty schools.

Sigh, 19:25, this has been asked and answered in other threads. Tubman has been tutoring its low performing students on Saturdays for 4 years, and last year moved a huge % from below basic to basic. They had another jump this year as those kids moved from basic to proficient. Not gaming; just good, hard work, which I'm sure you support. NOT.

The test scores there did make a strangely large jump this year. (Cheating? Teaching right to the test? Sudden influx of children educated elsewhere?) But even with that increase, the scores still look like a failing school to me.

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/58-Tubman-Elementary-School/?tab=test-scores

Link to wapo article?

Hmmm...again the troll brings up the WaPo article, which was incredibly poorly researched. You bring this up every single time Tubman is mentioned, and you go out of your way to give wrong information - the article makes no mention of the principal being hostile to the PTA president. What exactly do you have against Tubman? Are you irked that this school's test scores are so high?

Anonymous wrote:I have met the former principal in his new role, as cluster superintendent supervising my DCPS, and I am very impressed. I am sure it was a loss for Tubman when he left. I do think that a lot of staff turns over when a new principal comes in, and that that's not necessarily a bad thing, if the people who leave don't want to be a part of the new principal's vision for the school.

I second this. He does seem like he was an awesome principal.

I talked to someone IB for Tubman about that Post story - they told me the white PTA person wasn't "run off" but moved out of DC for a job relocation and it wasn't even remotely as contentious as portrayed in the Post.

I'm not sure what you mean by a new VP at Tubman--the VP (assistant principal) has been there for 2 years.

I have met the former principal in his new role, as cluster superintendent supervising my DCPS, and I am very impressed. I am sure it was a loss for Tubman when he left. I do think that a lot of staff turns over when a new principal comes in, and that that's not necessarily a bad thing, if the people who leave don't want to be a part of the new principal's vision for the school.

The former principal was " well loved"? Is that the same one that didn't want a white PTA president and bascially tried to run the white parents out?

I hear from a reliable source that a significant number of teachers want to leave Tubman due to poor student behavior and a new VP who has proved difficult to work with. I know Tubman had an excellent record with their former principal who was well-loved. And many parents have posted positive things here about the school and their experience.

Teachers, please speak up.

My DD is IB for your school.

Thank you.