Anonymous wrote:According to the WP, Bowser did NOT apologize:

"The fallout from findings that a former schools chancellor misused her authority to place children of top city officials in coveted schools seemed clear. From city hall, where council members were inundated with calls last week, to neighborhood email groups, where parents fumed, there was outrage that well-connected people had stepped ahead of everyone else in the city’s notoriously competitive school lottery.

But the mayor doesn’t see it that way."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/after-favoritism-revealed-in-school-lottery-dc-parents-wait-on-apology/2017/05/21/8876c2da-3c25-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.0783d5fe86d5

Anonymous wrote:Mayor's chief of staff claims Bowser apologized and took action.
Post reporter asks okay, well what specifically is she apologizing for?
Chief of staff goes silent

https://mobile.twitter.com/PeteJamison/status/865680625872773120

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Anonymous wrote: Could those of you trying to take this thread off-topic by going on and on about the stupid Brent situation and where it sits in proximity to, give it a rest? The poor mother who made the request and already has her plateful dealing with the deaf child was told no. Happy? Now let's focus on the fat bureaucrats who selfishly took advantage

Really???!!! Cause deaf kids are such a burden? I bet you are one of those people who probably give your gay friends permission or absolution, like they need your approval. Ignorant fool.

So, it was the mom who is Deaf, not the kid. The mom wanted her child with other children of Deaf adults so she could sign at school, and for a sense of community. It seems like an eminently reasonable request to me. Also, someone else can weigh in on this, but my understanding is that Brent actually does have some sort of specialized program for D/deaf and hard of hearing kids, since my friend's child was placed their OOB for hearing loss.

I have never seen anything about a special program at Brent for sign language except this article, which mentions a Brent teacher (who is still there) using a bit of ASL for students to request bathroom passes and the like: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101501373.html

There may be CODAs there and from googling, some of their PTA meetings appear to have ASL interpretation (so do JO Wilson's). But the special program for Deaf/hard of hearing kids in DCPS is at Payne. Given that the child whose mom requested placement seems to be hearing, she wouldn't have been placed in the self-contained class. But to have signing teachers and kids (and probably some parents), Payne would have made sense. I don't fault the mom for asking for Brent or Ross but also don't think it's obvious that the request should have been granted...we don't have all the details. We can still think that Snowden and Young's cases were wrong.

All of this makes me wonder if I could have gotten my kid out of a school situation that was a bad fit had I asked for a transfer (I am not a DC official and certainly don't have the stature of any of the people who got them!). It truly didn't occur to me that this was an option and now I feel like a rube.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe people are giving the citizen requesters grief. They had the right to ask as discretion was a valid option. The denials reflect lack of political connection in geting the request approved. All of the requests granted were connected and all of the denials were not.

I don't really care if the request is reasonable or not, but I do resent the political calculations between Henderson and Beers about whether or not to grant.

Yeah acting like Adrian Fenty (one of the "citizens") was treated the same way you or I was is completely ludicrous. This was his second special placement in a WOTP school, and he's dating a mega-billionaire!!!! Not to get all ad hominem but honestly you should be embarrassed for making this argument

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Anonymous wrote: Could those of you trying to take this thread off-topic by going on and on about the stupid Brent situation and where it sits in proximity to, give it a rest? The poor mother who made the request and already has her plateful dealing with the deaf child was told no. Happy? Now let's focus on the fat bureaucrats who selfishly took advantage

Really???!!! Cause deaf kids are such a burden? I bet you are one of those people who probably give your gay friends permission or absolution, like they need your approval. Ignorant fool.

So, it was the mom who is Deaf, not the kid. The mom wanted her child with other children of Deaf adults so she could sign at school, and for a sense of community. It seems like an eminently reasonable request to me. Also, someone else can weigh in on this, but my understanding is that Brent actually does have some sort of specialized program for D/deaf and hard of hearing kids, since my friend's child was placed their OOB for hearing loss.

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Anonymous wrote:David Grosso calls for a review of all 4 years of lottery data

Link: http://www.nbcwashington.com/blogs/first-read-dmv/Review-All-Four-Years-of-DC-School-Lottery-Councilmember-Says-423045494.html

Well, assuming all of the data and relevant emails will be made available, the next step would be to subpoena Kaya Henderson about what she did. As long as she doesn't lie, she's not going to be in any legal jeopardy. As for her future employment prospects, probably not so great.

Grosso loves Kaya and would never do anything that would put her in bad spot. Plus he was in charge of oversight during these years so could potentially reflect badly on him. This is just window dressing for us dumb voters

+1 Yup. Lottery data will not show anything as these are discretionary spots. Grosso will say x thousand kids were fairly matched in the lottery process, and these 7 cases were aberrations.

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Anonymous wrote:David Grosso calls for a review of all 4 years of lottery data

Link: http://www.nbcwashington.com/blogs/first-read-dmv/Review-All-Four-Years-of-DC-School-Lottery-Councilmember-Says-423045494.html

Well, assuming all of the data and relevant emails will be made available, the next step would be to subpoena Kaya Henderson about what she did. As long as she doesn't lie, she's not going to be in any legal jeopardy. As for her future employment prospects, probably not so great.

Grosso loves Kaya and would never do anything that would put her in bad spot. Plus he was in charge of oversight during these years so could potentially reflect badly on him. This is just window dressing for us dumb voters

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Anonymous wrote: Could those of you trying to take this thread off-topic by going on and on about the stupid Brent situation and where it sits in proximity to, give it a rest? The poor mother who made the request and already has her plateful dealing with the deaf child was told no. Happy? Now let's focus on the fat bureaucrats who selfishly took advantage

Really???!!! Cause deaf kids are such a burden? I bet you are one of those people who probably give your gay friends permission or absolution, like they need your approval. Ignorant fool.

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Anonymous wrote:David Grosso calls for a review of all 4 years of lottery data

Link: http://www.nbcwashington.com/blogs/first-read-dmv/Review-All-Four-Years-of-DC-School-Lottery-Councilmember-Says-423045494.html

Well, assuming all of the data and relevant emails will be made available, the next step would be to subpoena Kaya Henderson about what she did. As long as she doesn't lie, she's not going to be in any legal jeopardy. As for her future employment prospects, probably not so great.

Grosso loves Kaya and would never do anything that would put her in bad spot. Plus he was in charge of oversight during these years so could potentially reflect badly on him. This is just window dressing for us dumb voters

Also, isn't the issue that they are going AROUND the lottery for these placements? What will lottery data show?

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Anonymous wrote:David Grosso calls for a review of all 4 years of lottery data

Link: http://www.nbcwashington.com/blogs/first-read-dmv/Review-All-Four-Years-of-DC-School-Lottery-Councilmember-Says-423045494.html

Well, assuming all of the data and relevant emails will be made available, the next step would be to subpoena Kaya Henderson about what she did. As long as she doesn't lie, she's not going to be in any legal jeopardy. As for her future employment prospects, probably not so great.

Grosso loves Kaya and would never do anything that would put her in bad spot. Plus he was in charge of oversight during these years so could potentially reflect badly on him. This is just window dressing for us dumb voters

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Anonymous wrote:David Grosso calls for a review of all 4 years of lottery data

Link: http://www.nbcwashington.com/blogs/first-read-dmv/Review-All-Four-Years-of-DC-School-Lottery-Councilmember-Says-423045494.html

Well, assuming all of the data and relevant emails will be made available, the next step would be to subpoena Kaya Henderson about what she did. As long as she doesn't lie, she's not going to be in any legal jeopardy. As for her future employment prospects, probably not so great.