Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The political class are so out of touch. They're actually surprised people care that the lottery is run fairly? This article just out on WashPost. Looks like Bowser's failures are piling up just in time for her re-election campaign.

"D.C.’s mayor played down a school-lottery scandal. Now parents are ‘livid.’"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dcs-mayor-played-down-a-school-lottery-scandal-now-parents-are-livid/2017/05/12/0c0f8f50-367c-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html

Pretty tone deaf response, even if legal.

It seems that for Mayor "Marion" Bowser, the chickens are finally coming home to roost.

Anonymous wrote:The political class are so out of touch. They're actually surprised people care that the lottery is run fairly? This article just out on WashPost. Looks like Bowser's failures are piling up just in time for her re-election campaign.

"D.C.’s mayor played down a school-lottery scandal. Now parents are ‘livid.’"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dcs-mayor-played-down-a-school-lottery-scandal-now-parents-are-livid/2017/05/12/0c0f8f50-367c-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html

Pretty tone deaf response, even if legal.

The political class are so out of touch. They're actually surprised people care that the lottery is run fairly? This article just out on WashPost. Looks like Bowser's failures are piling up just in time for her re-election campaign.

"D.C.’s mayor played down a school-lottery scandal. Now parents are ‘livid.’"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dcs-mayor-played-down-a-school-lottery-scandal-now-parents-are-livid/2017/05/12/0c0f8f50-367c-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html

Anonymous wrote:Yes, you'd be tempted to ask; but if your job required you to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, you wouldn't ask. These government officials are held or sure as hell should be held to a higher standard so we don't look corrupt.

You're so naive and clearly don't know the "ways of DC." The only place in the region that has more cozy, crony corruption is P.G.

Anonymous wrote:it just sounds like the "secret menu at Starbucks" or something. Sure everyone can get it, but who knows to ask?

At least three people asked and were denied. They didn't have any quo for the quid.

it just sounds like the "secret menu at Starbucks" or something. Sure everyone can get it, but who knows to ask?

Yes, you'd be tempted to ask; but if your job required you to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, you wouldn't ask. These government officials are held or sure as hell should be held to a higher standard so we don't look corrupt.

I find this whole thing interesting. I happen to know someone who is pretty good friends with Kaya. Not besties per se but close enough I would have expected that if Kaya were giving out favors, her children would be on the receiving end of that favor. But, her kids are in an average to below average DCPS school. Clearly.. no favors. Maybe this person never asked. Maybe she did. I have no clue.

I know Kaya and Co are claiming this discretionary ability to pull sway is legal- and I don't doubt that- but I really wonder what criteria she is applying. If one of my close friends had the ability to help my kids get into a great school... I sure would be tempted to ask.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Supposedly now the City Administrator got special treatment too???????

Although Jennie Niles says he has proof that he entered the lottery and got his child into school off the wait list. The IG is saying he may have made a mistake in including him.

This is all a big mess.

What was his waitlist number? How many people was he allowed to skip ahead of to enroll his child(ren)?

None - it says he went through the proper process.

It says that he went through the proper process by enrolling in the lottery. It does not say that he did not to skip to the top of (and off) the waitlist.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Supposedly now the City Administrator got special treatment too???????

Although Jennie Niles says he has proof that he entered the lottery and got his child into school off the wait list. The IG is saying he may have made a mistake in including him.

This is all a big mess.

Not sure I believe that. And also, how fluid is the waitlist? Some get miraculously in front of others.

I bet the did "get off" the waitlist which was nudged along by the Chancellor. He probably had no clue that happened.

Well, the only way the principal would nudge his kids is if Kaya called the principal and Rashad had told Kaya abut his predicament. Low and behold, admission occurred. My God, another DC miracle. Kaya can become the Saint of Miraculous Matriculation.

I want to know who the White House official was and what they could do for Henderson to make their request approved over the many other people in this town who feel important and entitled but didn't have strings pulled for them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Supposedly now the City Administrator got special treatment too???????

Although Jennie Niles says he has proof that he entered the lottery and got his child into school off the wait list. The IG is saying he may have made a mistake in including him.

This is all a big mess.

Not sure I believe that. And also, how fluid is the waitlist? Some get miraculously in front of others.

I bet the did "get off" the waitlist which was nudged along by the Chancellor. He probably had no clue that happened.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Supposedly now the City Administrator got special treatment too???????

Although Jennie Niles says he has proof that he entered the lottery and got his child into school off the wait list. The IG is saying he may have made a mistake in including him.

This is all a big mess.

What was his waitlist number? How many people was he allowed to skip ahead of to enroll his child(ren)?

None - it says he went through the proper process.

Excerpt from the Washington Post story -- My School DC says he followed the standard process.

"Kevin Harris, a spokesman for the mayor, provided an email from the executive director of the school lottery to Jennifer C. Niles, the deputy mayor for education, stating that Young’s children had gone through the lottery process, been placed on a waiting list at a school and came off the waiting list to enroll at the school, which was not identified."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/bowser-inspector-general-may-have-made-error-in-school-lottery-probe/2017/05/11/e82e10b6-3667-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html?utm_term=.7d1d7d6b6e56

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Supposedly now the City Administrator got special treatment too???????

Although Jennie Niles says he has proof that he entered the lottery and got his child into school off the wait list. The IG is saying he may have made a mistake in including him.

This is all a big mess.

What was his waitlist number? How many people was he allowed to skip ahead of to enroll his child(ren)?

None - it says he went through the proper process.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Supposedly now the City Administrator got special treatment too???????

Although Jennie Niles says he has proof that he entered the lottery and got his child into school off the wait list. The IG is saying he may have made a mistake in including him.

This is all a big mess.

What was his waitlist number? How many people was he allowed to skip ahead of to enroll his child(ren)?