Anonymous wrote:I'm very satisfied with the school but the Henderson praise made my heart sink.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM = Wolf Pack

Your math seems 2nd grade, at best.

DCUM = Wolf Pack + Whiners Pack + Sycophants Pack + Racist Pack + Jeff Himself.

Anonymous wrote:DCUM = Wolf Pack

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent there I'm willing to give her a chance. She's made mistakes, and I'm the first to agree she does not always make a good impression. She's inconsistent. One thing I don't like is the constant sucking up to the Chancellor. This is from this week's email:
"Finally, a big congratulations and thank you to our Chancellor, Kaya Henderson, who reached her five year anniversary as Chancellor of DCPS this past weekend. In that time, the district has seen far-reaching success with test scores, graduation rates, and increases in student satisfaction and enrollment. Thank you, Chancellor, for providing great experiences for all our students."
It just makes it seem like Kaya hired her because she will be a cheerleader for DCPS. Wilson needs someone who can advocate for the school and not just follow along.

Not to mention that not all of the information in the email is accurate -- and some parents know it.

also -- I give her a pass on Open House night, but not on this letter to parents. She could have been complimentary without so obviously kissing up.

Anonymous wrote:She seems to not understand the politics of DCPS or Wilson. I keep thinking she did not do her homework before coming here.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent there I'm willing to give her a chance. She's made mistakes, and I'm the first to agree she does not always make a good impression. She's inconsistent. One thing I don't like is the constant sucking up to the Chancellor. This is from this week's email:
"Finally, a big congratulations and thank you to our Chancellor, Kaya Henderson, who reached her five year anniversary as Chancellor of DCPS this past weekend. In that time, the district has seen far-reaching success with test scores, graduation rates, and increases in student satisfaction and enrollment. Thank you, Chancellor, for providing great experiences for all our students."
It just makes it seem like Kaya hired her because she will be a cheerleader for DCPS. Wilson needs someone who can advocate for the school and not just follow along.

Not to mention that not all of the information in the email is accurate -- and some parents know it.

Anonymous wrote:As a parent there I'm willing to give her a chance. She's made mistakes, and I'm the first to agree she does not always make a good impression. She's inconsistent. One thing I don't like is the constant sucking up to the Chancellor. This is from this week's email:
"Finally, a big congratulations and thank you to our Chancellor, Kaya Henderson, who reached her five year anniversary as Chancellor of DCPS this past weekend. In that time, the district has seen far-reaching success with test scores, graduation rates, and increases in student satisfaction and enrollment. Thank you, Chancellor, for providing great experiences for all our students."
It just makes it seem like Kaya hired her because she will be a cheerleader for DCPS. Wilson needs someone who can advocate for the school and not just follow along.

Anonymous wrote:As a parent there I'm willing to give her a chance. She's made mistakes, and I'm the first to agree she does not always make a good impression. She's inconsistent. One thing I don't like is the constant sucking up to the Chancellor. This is from this week's email:
"Finally, a big congratulations and thank you to our Chancellor, Kaya Henderson, who reached her five year anniversary as Chancellor of DCPS this past weekend. In that time, the district has seen far-reaching success with test scores, graduation rates, and increases in student satisfaction and enrollment. Thank you, Chancellor, for providing great experiences for all our students."
It just makes it seem like Kaya hired her because she will be a cheerleader for DCPS. Wilson needs someone who can advocate for the school and not just follow along.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the feedback about the Open House. I regret that my performance was less than you anticipated. The questions and answers I provided during the unscripted Q and A were somewhat vague, I agree, and in my perspective they were questions that I would typically answer in an email or individual conversation, but not in front of a large group, due to their complexity. For instance, "what do you anticipate being the biggest issue in the next five years" and "is your school safe?" (there was no question about discipline). In my view, those questions require a bit of background knowledge and, as I mentioned in my response to the group, have many variables to consider, which I'm not sure a group of parents who are largely unconnected to our school would understand. In fact, I hold monthly Parent Coffees, which are well attended by Wilson parents, and I often hear that these meetings are informative, thoughtful and productive. The parents who are present set the monthly agenda, however, we do not speak about issues like school safety, presumably because it is not an issue for parents who are insiders. In thinking about school safety: does the speaker want to know about our suspension rates? The number of fights in the school? The number of safety drills we have each month? The results of the student satisfaction survey? The results of the teacher survey? Or are there other factors that are important? Perhaps there is something more to the question, of which I am unaware? When I prompted the speaker for clarification, he stated, "does your school feel safe?" How am I to answer a questions about "feeling" without discussing how someone "feels," which is why I stated, "my son feels safe and students tell me they feel safe." I could have stated that our suspension rate has declined over the last several years, but does that mean a school is more or less safe in an outsiders' perspective? In relation to the questions about my biggest concern for the next five years, I am quite concerned about the boundary issues that have been discussed and analyzed over the last few months since I've arrived. Our school is the largest school in DCPS and as I mentioned in the Open House, we are 150 students over capacity THIS YEAR, but as our enrollment continues to increase....? When asked, "what will you do about it?" I explained that there are several possible solutions, none that has been determined to be THE solution as yet. Then I was asked, "what are the possible options for solving this problem?" I stated that there are several possible solutions that have been discussed, which include looking at our boundaries and making changes to our boundaries, as has been done within the last 12 months, and changes were already implemented last year. Then, "why is this a concern?" and yes, I stumbled, because I hesitate to say that our school may unwittingly exclude a specific demographic of students and yes, then the question of race came up. If there was concern from me about the presentation it was that I was being asked to answer to situations that are already and still occurring and in forums like this, I cannot share "what ifs" since my words are often distorted and those distortions are made as fact.
How my race plays into this conversation is another matter entirely and I will not comment on that in this forum or at any other time.
All the best,
Kim Martin

Just ran this through writing quality software. It's 10th grade level.

Time magazine is written at the 8th grade level.

Have they discovered the Paragraph?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the feedback about the Open House. I regret that my performance was less than you anticipated. The questions and answers I provided during the unscripted Q and A were somewhat vague, I agree, and in my perspective they were questions that I would typically answer in an email or individual conversation, but not in front of a large group, due to their complexity. For instance, "what do you anticipate being the biggest issue in the next five years" and "is your school safe?" (there was no question about discipline). In my view, those questions require a bit of background knowledge and, as I mentioned in my response to the group, have many variables to consider, which I'm not sure a group of parents who are largely unconnected to our school would understand. In fact, I hold monthly Parent Coffees, which are well attended by Wilson parents, and I often hear that these meetings are informative, thoughtful and productive. The parents who are present set the monthly agenda, however, we do not speak about issues like school safety, presumably because it is not an issue for parents who are insiders. In thinking about school safety: does the speaker want to know about our suspension rates? The number of fights in the school? The number of safety drills we have each month? The results of the student satisfaction survey? The results of the teacher survey? Or are there other factors that are important? Perhaps there is something more to the question, of which I am unaware? When I prompted the speaker for clarification, he stated, "does your school feel safe?" How am I to answer a questions about "feeling" without discussing how someone "feels," which is why I stated, "my son feels safe and students tell me they feel safe." I could have stated that our suspension rate has declined over the last several years, but does that mean a school is more or less safe in an outsiders' perspective? In relation to the questions about my biggest concern for the next five years, I am quite concerned about the boundary issues that have been discussed and analyzed over the last few months since I've arrived. Our school is the largest school in DCPS and as I mentioned in the Open House, we are 150 students over capacity THIS YEAR, but as our enrollment continues to increase....? When asked, "what will you do about it?" I explained that there are several possible solutions, none that has been determined to be THE solution as yet. Then I was asked, "what are the possible options for solving this problem?" I stated that there are several possible solutions that have been discussed, which include looking at our boundaries and making changes to our boundaries, as has been done within the last 12 months, and changes were already implemented last year. Then, "why is this a concern?" and yes, I stumbled, because I hesitate to say that our school may unwittingly exclude a specific demographic of students and yes, then the question of race came up. If there was concern from me about the presentation it was that I was being asked to answer to situations that are already and still occurring and in forums like this, I cannot share "what ifs" since my words are often distorted and those distortions are made as fact.
How my race plays into this conversation is another matter entirely and I will not comment on that in this forum or at any other time.
All the best,
Kim Martin

Just ran this through writing quality software. It's 10th grade level.

Time magazine is written at the 8th grade level.