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Anonymous wrote:I'm torn on all of this. Part of me wants the principal reinstated (assuming he was removed because he's a squeaky wheel). But part of me will be patently offended if these parents get their way and the J.O. community was shut out. That would be yet another in a long series of events where affluent white people get their way and brown people at Title 1 schools get told to sit down and shut up.

Also noteworthy that Charles Allen had no problem co-signing that letter but was virtually silent when the J.O principal was forced out mid-year. Maybe his love of black lives hadn't yet crystalized?

Ohhh sweetheart.
You are still looking for evidence to see if DCPS caters to nice white parents?
You’ve got a few more bumps ahead of you.

I will say that the JOW situation was hard to actually do something about once the Principal quit right after being non-renewed, and then he actually didn’t want to be reinstated and immediately took a charter job. Also, being let go part way though Term 1 is definitely a more problematic thing, as a general matter, than being non-renewed. I doubt the Council would have gotten so publicly involved if this principal was merely non-renewed on the normal schedule.

I think going forward all the schools need to have each others’ back on things like this. Solidarity.

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Why would Grosso not sign? That says a lot. Or release his own letter as Ed Chair if he does not agree with the letter.

He's not the chair of the ed committee anymore. Mendo stripped him of the role awhile back because of Grosso's utter incompetence.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm torn on all of this. Part of me wants the principal reinstated (assuming he was removed because he's a squeaky wheel). But part of me will be patently offended if these parents get their way and the J.O. community was shut out. That would be yet another in a long series of events where affluent white people get their way and brown people at Title 1 schools get told to sit down and shut up.

Also noteworthy that Charles Allen had no problem co-signing that letter but was virtually silent when the J.O principal was forced out mid-year. Maybe his love of black lives hadn't yet crystalized?

Ohhh sweetheart.
You are still looking for evidence to see if DCPS caters to nice white parents?
You’ve got a few more bumps ahead of you.

I will say that the JOW situation was hard to actually do something about once the Principal quit right after being non-renewed, and then he actually didn’t want to be reinstated and immediately took a charter job. Also, being let go part way though Term 1 is definitely a more problematic thing, as a general matter, than being non-renewed. I doubt the Council would have gotten so publicly involved if this principal was merely non-renewed on the normal schedule.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm torn on all of this. Part of me wants the principal reinstated (assuming he was removed because he's a squeaky wheel). But part of me will be patently offended if these parents get their way and the J.O. community was shut out. That would be yet another in a long series of events where affluent white people get their way and brown people at Title 1 schools get told to sit down and shut up.

Also noteworthy that Charles Allen had no problem co-signing that letter but was virtually silent when the J.O principal was forced out mid-year. Maybe his love of black lives hadn't yet crystalized?

Ohhh sweetheart.
You are still looking for evidence to see if DCPS caters to nice white parents?
You’ve got a few more bumps ahead of you.

Anonymous wrote:I'm torn on all of this. Part of me wants the principal reinstated (assuming he was removed because he's a squeaky wheel). But part of me will be patently offended if these parents get their way and the J.O. community was shut out. That would be yet another in a long series of events where affluent white people get their way and brown people at Title 1 schools get told to sit down and shut up.

Also noteworthy that Charles Allen had no problem co-signing that letter but was virtually silent when the J.O principal was forced out mid-year. Maybe his love of black lives hadn't yet crystalized?

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Anonymous wrote:

Why would Grosso not sign? That says a lot. Or release his own letter as Ed Chair if he does not agree with the letter.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm torn on all of this. Part of me wants the principal reinstated (assuming he was removed because he's a squeaky wheel). But part of me will be patently offended if these parents get their way and the J.O. community was shut out. That would be yet another in a long series of events where affluent white people get their way and brown people at Title 1 schools get told to sit down and shut up.

Also noteworthy that Charles Allen had no problem co-signing that letter but was virtually silent when the J.O principal was forced out mid-year. Maybe his love of black lives hadn't yet crystalized?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm torn on all of this. Part of me wants the principal reinstated (assuming he was removed because he's a squeaky wheel). But part of me will be patently offended if these parents get their way and the J.O. community was shut out. That would be yet another in a long series of events where affluent white people get their way and brown people at Title 1 schools get told to sit down and shut up.

Also noteworthy that Charles Allen had no problem co-signing that letter but was virtually silent when the J.O principal was forced out mid-year. Maybe his love of black lives hadn't yet crystalized?

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Why would Grosso not sign? That says a lot. Or release his own letter as Ed Chair if he does not agree with the letter.

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Anonymous wrote:

Why would Grosso not sign? That says a lot. Or release his own letter as Ed Chair if he does not agree with the letter.

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Anonymous wrote:

Why would Grosso not sign? That says a lot. Or release his own letter as Ed Chair if he does not agree with the letter.

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't people on this board been talking for a while about how SWW doesn't seem to admit many special needs kids? Or am I thinking of a different school?

There is an entrance exam that tests academic skills and they (SWW admin) set a score minimum each year, I believe. So if a kid has special needs and is not at grade level or struggles academically, they likely won't reach the minimum score.
It's an academic high school, there are requirements to get in.

Also, the teachers are not special ed teachers.

Please, don't speak of something which you know nothing about. Some of us do have "SN" kids who excelled at the entrance exam, were admitted and don't require a special ed teacher -- in fact my student hasn't had a special ed teacher since maybe 3rd grade. Once admitted the school purposely and illegally doesn't implement their IEPs or 504s in hopes of getting the child to withdraw. In my DC's case after meeting with this principal multiple times, basically being told our child was not welcome at the school we move our child to our IB high school, where the IEP was easily implemented, did not require a special ed teacher and said child is now in engineering program at top 10 university. Clearly bright kid who needed some supports. BTW, University happily implements the accommodations too. This isn't rocket science on how it is done. Just lazy leadership.

Something similar happened to my kid at SWW.

Not at SWW but thank you for posting. Children can be very bright and still have learning differences that are aided with support.