Oh here we go with the attempts at being cute and haughty--which I find hilarious! The bottom line is that my children weren't raised in a danger zone nor subjected to failing schools. But yours are, as you lament it all and stew about it. So I totally get your anger. And the fact that you'd move into an urban area then be pissed that the schools don't cater to you allows me to understand why you can't stick to or address a topic without name calling and attempts at snobbery. The teachers are ineffective, posters who disagree are _____. But what do you call a 'parent' who subjects her kids to the shitshow that is DCPS? Better yet, one who claims their kids are safe from the dysfunction yet they're so passionate about everyone else's kids and tax dpillars? BS: You're pissed that you have to shell out $ you can't afford to send your kids to private. You're upset that your white skin doesn't make the black leaders of DC fall over to please you. I find that hysterical!

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Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, summer was two weeks longer. I don't remember teachers packing up towards the end of the school year, and I would have to believe that maybe they let school out early & then paid the teachers to stay over and clean out their classrooms and submit their grades. Now, in their wisdom, DCPS has decided that the school year needs to be 14 days longer, but they don't extend the teachers' admin time. So the last two weeks of school becomes admin time. No the teachers can't take our kids out all day. They need to stay in and pack. Newsflash: extending the school year didn't improve test scores. It just makes the kids unteachable.

so, write off the last two weeks of school. It's not like it used to exist anyway. Hey, it's cheaper than summer camp

This thread makes me hate DC parents even more than I did before I read it. (And, no, not a dcps employee.)

Are you a DC parent? That would be ironic.

Yes. And one increasingly wishing I was not.

I keep wondering how far we'd have to go outside the DMV ring to escape this relentless striver snob culture.

I sit here laughing my highly ivy educated ass off at the parents trying so hard to seem above it all--when I know the reality to be that if you've really got it that good and you're so above the teachers and DC school system, you put your kids in private or go to the 'burbs and live your life. You don't whine and grovel at Henderson's feet to be loved and catered to. You take your privileged kids and LEAVE!

Ivy Tech Community College? You misspelled high.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS.

If your standards were so high, you wouldn't send your child to a DCPS. I didn't. For that reason: I'm highly educated and my standards are just too high.

All it takes to close the achievement gap is to cater to educated parents??? Forget the poverty and traumas many of the kids come from. They're of no consequence. Just cater to us. Ain't gonna happen cap'n.

Face it: DCPS has zero plan to cater to and beg the 'more educated' parents to come, stay and play. They're too busy with the anger, dysfunction and triage of the masses.

And is this really all because Larla's teacher showed Frozen last week?

Looks like someone's missing the point. There are a lot of people posting to this thread who obviously aren't sending their children to DCPS, and for good reason. That doesn't mean they don't have a right to their negative opinions and the very valid charges they are leveling at the system. As taxpayers and citizens we have a right to care about the quality of education in our city, and a duty to speak up when it's clearly being overlooked.

No, it isn't obvious that those whining and claiming to be more highly educated than the "ineffective", inferior teachers and those in DCPS leadership aren't sending their children to DCPS.

And, if they're not sending their children to a DCPS, it's painfully obvious that they want to.

As taxpayers and citizens...blah blah blah. Your first obligation is to your own kids. Do what's best for them. That's your true duty.

I know I'm not sending my children to DCPS and I most definitely do not want to. I'm also not the only poster to this very lengthy thread. I do however, feel a sense of duty to the students in the system (not to mention that I don't like seeing the tax dollars wasted). So again, as a taxpayer and a citizen I have a clear right and duty to voice my objections. We deserve better. You don't seem to have any response other than that it's a lousy system, but as long as my children aren't in it, I shouldn't care. Fortunately, most of us don't see the world that way.

You're right. Some do choose to see the world through rose-colored glasses. Others choose to be realistic.

The reality is that urban school systems have existed for ever. And most have always been crappy. The intervention of the federal gov't, sanctions, and righteously indignant parents haven't changed that. Sooooo you can continue to fight a losing battle. Orrrrrr accept reality and do what's best for your kids.

Your either/or scenario is pretty jaded: suck it up or shut up.

Convenient for you, but not everyone is wired to just eat sh!t.

But you're not eating shit; your kids are nowhere near the shit that is DCPS, are they?

But have it your way: Continue to insist that you're thrilled your kids aren't experiencing the shithole that is DCPS-while simultaneously rallying to make the system that they can be a part of it. Then come back in 5 years and let us know how your activism worked out fer ya! Mmkay?

DCPS English teacher? Admin? Or union hack?

Probably at least two out of three.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS.

If your standards were so high, you wouldn't send your child to a DCPS. I didn't. For that reason: I'm highly educated and my standards are just too high.

All it takes to close the achievement gap is to cater to educated parents??? Forget the poverty and traumas many of the kids come from. They're of no consequence. Just cater to us. Ain't gonna happen cap'n.

Face it: DCPS has zero plan to cater to and beg the 'more educated' parents to come, stay and play. They're too busy with the anger, dysfunction and triage of the masses.

And is this really all because Larla's teacher showed Frozen last week?

Looks like someone's missing the point. There are a lot of people posting to this thread who obviously aren't sending their children to DCPS, and for good reason. That doesn't mean they don't have a right to their negative opinions and the very valid charges they are leveling at the system. As taxpayers and citizens we have a right to care about the quality of education in our city, and a duty to speak up when it's clearly being overlooked.

No, it isn't obvious that those whining and claiming to be more highly educated than the "ineffective", inferior teachers and those in DCPS leadership aren't sending their children to DCPS.

And, if they're not sending their children to a DCPS, it's painfully obvious that they want to.

As taxpayers and citizens...blah blah blah. Your first obligation is to your own kids. Do what's best for them. That's your true duty.

I know I'm not sending my children to DCPS and I most definitely do not want to. I'm also not the only poster to this very lengthy thread. I do however, feel a sense of duty to the students in the system (not to mention that I don't like seeing the tax dollars wasted). So again, as a taxpayer and a citizen I have a clear right and duty to voice my objections. We deserve better. You don't seem to have any response other than that it's a lousy system, but as long as my children aren't in it, I shouldn't care. Fortunately, most of us don't see the world that way.

You're right. Some do choose to see the world through rose-colored glasses. Others choose to be realistic.

The reality is that urban school systems have existed for ever. And most have always been crappy. The intervention of the federal gov't, sanctions, and righteously indignant parents haven't changed that. Sooooo you can continue to fight a losing battle. Orrrrrr accept reality and do what's best for your kids.

Your either/or scenario is pretty jaded: suck it up or shut up.

Convenient for you, but not everyone is wired to just eat sh!t.

But you're not eating shit; your kids are nowhere near the shit that is DCPS, are they?

But have it your way: Continue to insist that you're thrilled your kids aren't experiencing the shithole that is DCPS-while simultaneously rallying to make the system that they can be a part of it. Then come back in 5 years and let us know how your activism worked out fer ya! Mmkay?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS.

If your standards were so high, you wouldn't send your child to a DCPS. I didn't. For that reason: I'm highly educated and my standards are just too high.

All it takes to close the achievement gap is to cater to educated parents??? Forget the poverty and traumas many of the kids come from. They're of no consequence. Just cater to us. Ain't gonna happen cap'n.

Face it: DCPS has zero plan to cater to and beg the 'more educated' parents to come, stay and play. They're too busy with the anger, dysfunction and triage of the masses.

And is this really all because Larla's teacher showed Frozen last week?

Looks like someone's missing the point. There are a lot of people posting to this thread who obviously aren't sending their children to DCPS, and for good reason. That doesn't mean they don't have a right to their negative opinions and the very valid charges they are leveling at the system. As taxpayers and citizens we have a right to care about the quality of education in our city, and a duty to speak up when it's clearly being overlooked.

No, it isn't obvious that those whining and claiming to be more highly educated than the "ineffective", inferior teachers and those in DCPS leadership aren't sending their children to DCPS.

And, if they're not sending their children to a DCPS, it's painfully obvious that they want to.

As taxpayers and citizens...blah blah blah. Your first obligation is to your own kids. Do what's best for them. That's your true duty.

I know I'm not sending my children to DCPS and I most definitely do not want to. I'm also not the only poster to this very lengthy thread. I do however, feel a sense of duty to the students in the system (not to mention that I don't like seeing the tax dollars wasted). So again, as a taxpayer and a citizen I have a clear right and duty to voice my objections. We deserve better. You don't seem to have any response other than that it's a lousy system, but as long as my children aren't in it, I shouldn't care. Fortunately, most of us don't see the world that way.

You're right. Some do choose to see the world through rose-colored glasses. Others choose to be realistic.

The reality is that urban school systems have existed for ever. And most have always been crappy. The intervention of the federal gov't, sanctions, and righteously indignant parents haven't changed that. Sooooo you can continue to fight a losing battle. Orrrrrr accept reality and do what's best for your kids.

Your either/or scenario is pretty jaded: suck it up or shut up.

Convenient for you, but not everyone is wired to just eat sh!t.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS.

If your standards were so high, you wouldn't send your child to a DCPS. I didn't. For that reason: I'm highly educated and my standards are just too high.

All it takes to close the achievement gap is to cater to educated parents??? Forget the poverty and traumas many of the kids come from. They're of no consequence. Just cater to us. Ain't gonna happen cap'n.

Face it: DCPS has zero plan to cater to and beg the 'more educated' parents to come, stay and play. They're too busy with the anger, dysfunction and triage of the masses.

And is this really all because Larla's teacher showed Frozen last week?

Looks like someone's missing the point. There are a lot of people posting to this thread who obviously aren't sending their children to DCPS, and for good reason. That doesn't mean they don't have a right to their negative opinions and the very valid charges they are leveling at the system. As taxpayers and citizens we have a right to care about the quality of education in our city, and a duty to speak up when it's clearly being overlooked.

No, it isn't obvious that those whining and claiming to be more highly educated than the "ineffective", inferior teachers and those in DCPS leadership aren't sending their children to DCPS.

And, if they're not sending their children to a DCPS, it's painfully obvious that they want to.

As taxpayers and citizens...blah blah blah. Your first obligation is to your own kids. Do what's best for them. That's your true duty.

I know I'm not sending my children to DCPS and I most definitely do not want to. I'm also not the only poster to this very lengthy thread. I do however, feel a sense of duty to the students in the system (not to mention that I don't like seeing the tax dollars wasted). So again, as a taxpayer and a citizen I have a clear right and duty to voice my objections. We deserve better. You don't seem to have any response other than that it's a lousy system, but as long as my children aren't in it, I shouldn't care. Fortunately, most of us don't see the world that way.

You're right. Some do choose to see the world through rose-colored glasses. Others choose to be realistic.

The reality is that urban school systems have existed for ever. And most have always been crappy. The intervention of the federal gov't, sanctions, and righteously indignant parents haven't changed that. Sooooo you can continue to fight a losing battle. Orrrrrr accept reality and do what's best for your kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, summer was two weeks longer. I don't remember teachers packing up towards the end of the school year, and I would have to believe that maybe they let school out early & then paid the teachers to stay over and clean out their classrooms and submit their grades. Now, in their wisdom, DCPS has decided that the school year needs to be 14 days longer, but they don't extend the teachers' admin time. So the last two weeks of school becomes admin time. No the teachers can't take our kids out all day. They need to stay in and pack. Newsflash: extending the school year didn't improve test scores. It just makes the kids unteachable.

so, write off the last two weeks of school. It's not like it used to exist anyway. Hey, it's cheaper than summer camp

This thread makes me hate DC parents even more than I did before I read it. (And, no, not a dcps employee.)

Are you a DC parent? That would be ironic.

Yes. And one increasingly wishing I was not.

I keep wondering how far we'd have to go outside the DMV ring to escape this relentless striver snob culture.

I sit here laughing my highly ivy educated ass off at the parents trying so hard to seem above it all--when I know the reality to be that if you've really got it that good and you're so above the teachers and DC school system, you put your kids in private or go to the 'burbs and live your life. You don't whine and grovel at Henderson's feet to be loved and catered to. You take your privileged kids and LEAVE!

Perhaps if you were using your brain instead of your "highly ivy educated ass" you'd have less trouble with reading comprehension.

Obviously a lot of parents on this thread have in fact left the system. I don't hear whining and groveling though, what comes through is righteous indignation. The students, the taxpayers, and the citizens deserve better. That's a statement of fact (in case you're using your eyes instead of your anus to take in information, proud though you seem to be of that skill).

Righteous indignation does not come with attempts to down others and pretend to be so much better (and higher educated) than they are--while at the same time entrusting (or wanting to entrust) your children to their substandard care.

A lot of parents on this board constantly cry about how having their children in DCPS will raise scores, make the system so much better, etc. If only....Henderson would cater to us, kiss our asses, do what we want...Then comes that "righteous indignation" (as you call it) when no one from Central Office salivates, squeals with delight, claps their hands and jumps up and down at the thought that you'd give DCPS a chance.

Sure, the kids of DC deserve so much better for a school system. But this is not the 'burbs, ma'am. If you were so smart you'd realize that. If you're kids are in good privates, charters or suburban schools, stop crying and complaining. Be glad. But don't think for a minute that what so many try to pull on this site is "righteous indignation" and genuine concern for the poors. You're pissed that you can't have your cake and eat it too. You can have the fun and experiences of living in a major city, but you can't have the suburban public school experience along with it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS.

If your standards were so high, you wouldn't send your child to a DCPS. I didn't. For that reason: I'm highly educated and my standards are just too high.

All it takes to close the achievement gap is to cater to educated parents??? Forget the poverty and traumas many of the kids come from. They're of no consequence. Just cater to us. Ain't gonna happen cap'n.

Face it: DCPS has zero plan to cater to and beg the 'more educated' parents to come, stay and play. They're too busy with the anger, dysfunction and triage of the masses.

And is this really all because Larla's teacher showed Frozen last week?

Looks like someone's missing the point. There are a lot of people posting to this thread who obviously aren't sending their children to DCPS, and for good reason. That doesn't mean they don't have a right to their negative opinions and the very valid charges they are leveling at the system. As taxpayers and citizens we have a right to care about the quality of education in our city, and a duty to speak up when it's clearly being overlooked.

No, it isn't obvious that those whining and claiming to be more highly educated than the "ineffective", inferior teachers and those in DCPS leadership aren't sending their children to DCPS.

And, if they're not sending their children to a DCPS, it's painfully obvious that they want to.

As taxpayers and citizens...blah blah blah. Your first obligation is to your own kids. Do what's best for them. That's your true duty.

I know I'm not sending my children to DCPS and I most definitely do not want to. I'm also not the only poster to this very lengthy thread. I do however, feel a sense of duty to the students in the system (not to mention that I don't like seeing the tax dollars wasted). So again, as a taxpayer and a citizen I have a clear right and duty to voice my objections. We deserve better. You don't seem to have any response other than that it's a lousy system, but as long as my children aren't in it, I shouldn't care. Fortunately, most of us don't see the world that way.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS.

If your standards were so high, you wouldn't send your child to a DCPS. I didn't. For that reason: I'm highly educated and my standards are just too high.

All it takes to close the achievement gap is to cater to educated parents??? Forget the poverty and traumas many of the kids come from. They're of no consequence. Just cater to us. Ain't gonna happen cap'n.

Face it: DCPS has zero plan to cater to and beg the 'more educated' parents to come, stay and play. They're too busy with the anger, dysfunction and triage of the masses.

And is this really all because Larla's teacher showed Frozen last week?

Looks like someone's missing the point. There are a lot of people posting to this thread who obviously aren't sending their children to DCPS, and for good reason. That doesn't mean they don't have a right to their negative opinions and the very valid charges they are leveling at the system. As taxpayers and citizens we have a right to care about the quality of education in our city, and a duty to speak up when it's clearly being overlooked.

No, it isn't obvious that those whining and claiming to be more highly educated than the "ineffective", inferior teachers and those in DCPS leadership aren't sending their children to DCPS.

And, if they're not sending their children to a DCPS, it's painfully obvious that they want to.

As taxpayers and citizens...blah blah blah. Your first obligation is to your own kids. Do what's best for them. That's your true duty.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, summer was two weeks longer. I don't remember teachers packing up towards the end of the school year, and I would have to believe that maybe they let school out early & then paid the teachers to stay over and clean out their classrooms and submit their grades. Now, in their wisdom, DCPS has decided that the school year needs to be 14 days longer, but they don't extend the teachers' admin time. So the last two weeks of school becomes admin time. No the teachers can't take our kids out all day. They need to stay in and pack. Newsflash: extending the school year didn't improve test scores. It just makes the kids unteachable.

so, write off the last two weeks of school. It's not like it used to exist anyway. Hey, it's cheaper than summer camp

This thread makes me hate DC parents even more than I did before I read it. (And, no, not a dcps employee.)

Are you a DC parent? That would be ironic.

Yes. And one increasingly wishing I was not.

I keep wondering how far we'd have to go outside the DMV ring to escape this relentless striver snob culture.

I sit here laughing my highly ivy educated ass off at the parents trying so hard to seem above it all--when I know the reality to be that if you've really got it that good and you're so above the teachers and DC school system, you put your kids in private or go to the 'burbs and live your life. You don't whine and grovel at Henderson's feet to be loved and catered to. You take your privileged kids and LEAVE!

Perhaps if you were using your brain instead of your "highly ivy educated ass" you'd have less trouble with reading comprehension.

Obviously a lot of parents on this thread have in fact left the system. I don't hear whining and groveling though, what comes through is righteous indignation. The students, the taxpayers, and the citizens deserve better. That's a statement of fact (in case you're using your eyes instead of your anus to take in information, proud though you seem to be of that skill).

Wouldn't that be "highly ivy-educated ass?" I mean, I went to a small liberal arts school, so I could be wrong: but that is how I'd write it.

I dont think I'm above anyone, except insecure snobs who take every opportunity they can to mock other people, denigrate their choices, and complain about poor children. Those people are fair game.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, summer was two weeks longer. I don't remember teachers packing up towards the end of the school year, and I would have to believe that maybe they let school out early & then paid the teachers to stay over and clean out their classrooms and submit their grades. Now, in their wisdom, DCPS has decided that the school year needs to be 14 days longer, but they don't extend the teachers' admin time. So the last two weeks of school becomes admin time. No the teachers can't take our kids out all day. They need to stay in and pack. Newsflash: extending the school year didn't improve test scores. It just makes the kids unteachable.

so, write off the last two weeks of school. It's not like it used to exist anyway. Hey, it's cheaper than summer camp

This thread makes me hate DC parents even more than I did before I read it. (And, no, not a dcps employee.)

Are you a DC parent? That would be ironic.

Yes. And one increasingly wishing I was not.

I keep wondering how far we'd have to go outside the DMV ring to escape this relentless striver snob culture.

I sit here laughing my highly ivy educated ass off at the parents trying so hard to seem above it all--when I know the reality to be that if you've really got it that good and you're so above the teachers and DC school system, you put your kids in private or go to the 'burbs and live your life. You don't whine and grovel at Henderson's feet to be loved and catered to. You take your privileged kids and LEAVE!

Perhaps if you were using your brain instead of your "highly ivy educated ass" you'd have less trouble with reading comprehension.

Obviously a lot of parents on this thread have in fact left the system. I don't hear whining and groveling though, what comes through is righteous indignation. The students, the taxpayers, and the citizens deserve better. That's a statement of fact (in case you're using your eyes instead of your anus to take in information, proud though you seem to be of that skill).

Anonymous wrote:BS.

If your standards were so high, you wouldn't send your child to a DCPS. I didn't. For that reason: I'm highly educated and my standards are just too high.

All it takes to close the achievement gap is to cater to educated parents??? Forget the poverty and traumas many of the kids come from. They're of no consequence. Just cater to us. Ain't gonna happen cap'n.

Face it: DCPS has zero plan to cater to and beg the 'more educated' parents to come, stay and play. They're too busy with the anger, dysfunction and triage of the masses.

And is this really all because Larla's teacher showed Frozen last week?

Looks like someone's missing the point. There are a lot of people posting to this thread who obviously aren't sending their children to DCPS, and for good reason. That doesn't mean they don't have a right to their negative opinions and the very valid charges they are leveling at the system. As taxpayers and citizens we have a right to care about the quality of education in our city, and a duty to speak up when it's clearly being overlooked.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, summer was two weeks longer. I don't remember teachers packing up towards the end of the school year, and I would have to believe that maybe they let school out early & then paid the teachers to stay over and clean out their classrooms and submit their grades. Now, in their wisdom, DCPS has decided that the school year needs to be 14 days longer, but they don't extend the teachers' admin time. So the last two weeks of school becomes admin time. No the teachers can't take our kids out all day. They need to stay in and pack. Newsflash: extending the school year didn't improve test scores. It just makes the kids unteachable.

so, write off the last two weeks of school. It's not like it used to exist anyway. Hey, it's cheaper than summer camp

This thread makes me hate DC parents even more than I did before I read it. (And, no, not a dcps employee.)

Are you a DC parent? That would be ironic.

Yes. And one increasingly wishing I was not.

I keep wondering how far we'd have to go outside the DMV ring to escape this relentless striver snob culture.

I sit here laughing my highly ivy educated ass off at the parents trying so hard to seem above it all--when I know the reality to be that if you've really got it that good and you're so above the teachers and DC school system, you put your kids in private or go to the 'burbs and live your life. You don't whine and grovel at Henderson's feet to be loved and catered to. You take your privileged kids and LEAVE!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, summer was two weeks longer. I don't remember teachers packing up towards the end of the school year, and I would have to believe that maybe they let school out early & then paid the teachers to stay over and clean out their classrooms and submit their grades. Now, in their wisdom, DCPS has decided that the school year needs to be 14 days longer, but they don't extend the teachers' admin time. So the last two weeks of school becomes admin time. No the teachers can't take our kids out all day. They need to stay in and pack. Newsflash: extending the school year didn't improve test scores. It just makes the kids unteachable.

so, write off the last two weeks of school. It's not like it used to exist anyway. Hey, it's cheaper than summer camp

This thread makes me hate DC parents even more than I did before I read it. (And, no, not a dcps employee.)

Are you a DC parent? That would be ironic.

Yes. And one increasingly wishing I was not.

I keep wondering how far we'd have to go outside the DMV ring to escape this relentless striver snob culture.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, summer was two weeks longer. I don't remember teachers packing up towards the end of the school year, and I would have to believe that maybe they let school out early & then paid the teachers to stay over and clean out their classrooms and submit their grades. Now, in their wisdom, DCPS has decided that the school year needs to be 14 days longer, but they don't extend the teachers' admin time. So the last two weeks of school becomes admin time. No the teachers can't take our kids out all day. They need to stay in and pack. Newsflash: extending the school year didn't improve test scores. It just makes the kids unteachable.

so, write off the last two weeks of school. It's not like it used to exist anyway. Hey, it's cheaper than summer camp

This thread makes me hate DC parents even more than I did before I read it. (And, no, not a dcps employee.)

Are you a DC parent? That would be ironic.