Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 09:15     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
Anonymous wrote:It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes.


And teachers universally pan the CO trainings and PDs as useless.

Consistent mediocrity is not better than variable excellence.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 09:15     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
Anonymous wrote:It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes. [/quote

And teachers universally pan the CO trainings and PDs as useless.

Consistent mediocrity is not better than variable excellence.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 09:09     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
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Anonymous wrote:It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes.


Well why don’t you apply and try to do some of these jobs?

Sorry, but every time I've encountered anyone from downtown I've found them exceptionally stupid and unhelpful. And everyone hates their PD. I like the idea of PD but in real life it's useless. The only people who are at all helpful or competent are the enrollment team.


Because they aren't hiring! They're laying people off. And because I don't want to work with people who perform so poorly and for an organization whose bad reputation is so long entrenched.


So do you have any suggestions on how to improve things so that processes are more efficient? It’s like a wise man once told me, don’t complain about problems unless you’re willing to offer up meaningful solutions. Period.


I do-- it's to get rid of all the employees who are lazy and not very smart! Hope that was part of the layoff.


And please define what “not smart” means in context to the core functions of DCPS Central Office. Provide specific examples. And what qualitative or quantitative measure should be used to determine what is considered “lazy”? I’ll wait…….
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 09:06     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
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Anonymous wrote:It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes.


Well why don’t you apply and try to do some of these jobs?

Sorry, but every time I've encountered anyone from downtown I've found them exceptionally stupid and unhelpful. And everyone hates their PD. I like the idea of PD but in real life it's useless. The only people who are at all helpful or competent are the enrollment team.


Because they aren't hiring! They're laying people off. And because I don't want to work with people who perform so poorly and for an organization whose bad reputation is so long entrenched.


So do you have any suggestions on how to improve things so that processes are more efficient? It’s like a wise man once told me, don’t complain about problems unless you’re willing to offer up meaningful solutions. Period.


I do-- it's to get rid of all the employees who are lazy and not very smart! Hope that was part of the layoff.


Have you personally sat with every single one of the employees at Central Office to determine whether they are “lazy” and “not smart”? Maybe someone should make a case that you are lazy and not smart when it comes to your job?
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 08:59     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
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Anonymous wrote:It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes.


Well why don’t you apply and try to do some of these jobs?

Sorry, but every time I've encountered anyone from downtown I've found them exceptionally stupid and unhelpful. And everyone hates their PD. I like the idea of PD but in real life it's useless. The only people who are at all helpful or competent are the enrollment team.


Because they aren't hiring! They're laying people off. And because I don't want to work with people who perform so poorly and for an organization whose bad reputation is so long entrenched.


So do you have any suggestions on how to improve things so that processes are more efficient? It’s like a wise man once told me, don’t complain about problems unless you’re willing to offer up meaningful solutions. Period.


I do-- it's to get rid of all the employees who are lazy and not very smart! Hope that was part of the layoff.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 08:56     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
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Anonymous wrote:It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes.


Well why don’t you apply and try to do some of these jobs?

Sorry, but every time I've encountered anyone from downtown I've found them exceptionally stupid and unhelpful. And everyone hates their PD. I like the idea of PD but in real life it's useless. The only people who are at all helpful or competent are the enrollment team.


Because they aren't hiring! They're laying people off. And because I don't want to work with people who perform so poorly and for an organization whose bad reputation is so long entrenched.


So do you have any suggestions on how to improve things so that processes are more efficient? It’s like a wise man once told me, don’t complain about problems unless you’re willing to offer up meaningful solutions. Period.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 08:23     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
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Anonymous wrote:It was 6% which they said was about 100 or so positions. And that's on top of the past two years which they also had similar level reductions. There will certainly be even more for the next fiscal year given the cuts in federal funding.


So DCPS Central Office has 1600+ employees???


It’s not a lean machine.

And one of the worst teachers at our school just got promoted to instructional coach. They are going to be useless because no one likes them. At least they don’t have their own classroom anymore so their direct impact on kids is reduced. The Dilbert principle in action.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 08:00     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes.


Well why don’t you apply and try to do some of these jobs?

Sorry, but every time I've encountered anyone from downtown I've found them exceptionally stupid and unhelpful. And everyone hates their PD. I like the idea of PD but in real life it's useless. The only people who are at all helpful or competent are the enrollment team.


Because they aren't hiring! They're laying people off. And because I don't want to work with people who perform so poorly and for an organization whose bad reputation is so long entrenched.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 07:50     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes.


Well why don’t you apply and try to do some of these jobs?

Sorry, but every time I've encountered anyone from downtown I've found them exceptionally stupid and unhelpful. And everyone hates their PD. I like the idea of PD but in real life it's useless. The only people who are at all helpful or competent are the enrollment team.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 07:47     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
Anonymous wrote:It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes.


Sorry, but every time I've encountered anyone from downtown I've found them exceptionally stupid and unhelpful. And everyone hates their PD. I like the idea of PD but in real life it's useless. The only people who are at all helpful or competent are the enrollment team.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 07:34     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
It’s so disheartening how some of you speak about central employees without understanding what they do.

Just one example: central employees provide training and professional development for leaders and teachers. This ensures that everyone receives consistent messaging/development. If it were up to the schools, there would be even more discrepancy in student outcomes.
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2025 23:48     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m hearing that 40% of Central Office was laid off this week. What actually happened with budget cuts?


One can dream! 🙏
DCPS central is the worst. The entire org would run better without them.

You deserve to have the same logic applied to your job.
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2025 22:35     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
Anonymous wrote:Some of you all sound like the same folks cheering on the DODGE cuts to the federal gov't workers.


DOGE is cutting jobs randomly. DC has a budget shortfall and central office is incredibly bloated. MOCO central office has fewer employees than DCPS and more than double thr students.
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2025 22:12     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
Apparently there was no fix figured out for the budget shortfall caused by Trump denying the city's use of their own funds, and so they are just trying to get through the day. I doubt they would fire 40% of the admin staff, but who knows?
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2025 21:48     Subject: DCPS Central Office Cuts
Anonymous wrote:I’m hearing that 40% of Central Office was laid off this week. What actually happened with budget cuts?


One can dream! 🙏
DCPS central is the worst. The entire org would run better without them.