Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bring on the vouchers and the education spending accounts!!! Let DC thrive as a magnet to those who want quality education in a safe environment. DCPS is good money after bad, and it has run its course into the ground.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trump-and-congress-have-a-lot-of-power-to-make-changes-in-dc-schools/2017/01/28/a7d29f04-c224-4ae5-91d1-6987f6176872_story.html?utm_term=.3f1db855d888

Nope. There are 1000s of DCPS and charter parents with children thriving. We will fight tooth and nail to ensure that ALL schools in DC are high quality. That will mean new DC laws imposing equal oversight on private schools, along with strict private school licensing requirements.

Then why aren't you fighting for that now? The current voucher program in DC makes NO requirements on the private schools that use the vouchers. And so many of the schools are truly awful. Data on the schools is not publically available. Some don't have working bathrooms.

Anyone who actually cares about all students in DC is not in favor of the voucher program.

I totally agree -- this is something we should have been fighting for before. Let's do it now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bring on the vouchers and the education spending accounts!!! Let DC thrive as a magnet to those who want quality education in a safe environment. DCPS is good money after bad, and it has run its course into the ground.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trump-and-congress-have-a-lot-of-power-to-make-changes-in-dc-schools/2017/01/28/a7d29f04-c224-4ae5-91d1-6987f6176872_story.html?utm_term=.3f1db855d888

Nope. There are 1000s of DCPS and charter parents with children thriving. We will fight tooth and nail to ensure that ALL schools in DC are high quality. That will mean new DC laws imposing equal oversight on private schools, along with strict private school licensing requirements.

Then why aren't you fighting for that now? The current voucher program in DC makes NO requirements on the private schools that use the vouchers. And so many of the schools are truly awful. Data on the schools is not publically available. Some don't have working bathrooms.

Anyone who actually cares about all students in DC is not in favor of the voucher program.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bring on the vouchers and the education spending accounts!!! Let DC thrive as a magnet to those who want quality education in a safe environment. DCPS is good money after bad, and it has run its course into the ground.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trump-and-congress-have-a-lot-of-power-to-make-changes-in-dc-schools/2017/01/28/a7d29f04-c224-4ae5-91d1-6987f6176872_story.html?utm_term=.3f1db855d888

Nope. There are 1000s of DCPS and charter parents with children thriving. We will fight tooth and nail to ensure that ALL schools in DC are high quality. That will mean new DC laws imposing equal oversight on private schools, along with strict private school licensing requirements.

Then why aren't you fighting for that now? The current voucher program in DC makes NO requirements on the private schools that use the vouchers. And so many of the schools are truly awful. Data on the schools is not publically available. Some don't have working bathrooms.

Anyone who actually cares about all students in DC is not in favor of the voucher program.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bring on the vouchers and the education spending accounts!!! Let DC thrive as a magnet to those who want quality education in a safe environment. DCPS is good money after bad, and it has run its course into the ground.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trump-and-congress-have-a-lot-of-power-to-make-changes-in-dc-schools/2017/01/28/a7d29f04-c224-4ae5-91d1-6987f6176872_story.html?utm_term=.3f1db855d888

Nope. There are 1000s of DCPS and charter parents with children thriving. We will fight tooth and nail to ensure that ALL schools in DC are high quality. That will mean new DC laws imposing equal oversight on private schools, along with strict private school licensing requirements.

Anonymous wrote:Savvy District parents want vouchers to clear out the low income trouble makers from primo DCPS schools like Wilson... right? You send thousands of DCPS kids to charters, the UMC white and Asians will control the prime DCPS buildings.

Anonymous wrote:Bring on the vouchers and the education spending accounts!!! Let DC thrive as a magnet to those who want quality education in a safe environment. DCPS is good money after bad, and it has run its course into the ground.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trump-and-congress-have-a-lot-of-power-to-make-changes-in-dc-schools/2017/01/28/a7d29f04-c224-4ae5-91d1-6987f6176872_story.html?utm_term=.3f1db855d888

Anonymous wrote:
Yeah, tell me why I want vouchers. Below, from the "Stuart Hobson teacher quits" thread. How are you limo liberals in upper-NW doing this afternoon? Why don't you take the opportunity to lottery your kid into SH and then tell me how vouchers suck.



[Post New]12/10/2016 09:59 Subject: Stuart Hobson teacher quits [Up]
Anonymous



I teach at a DCPS elementary school (5 years).

There is no classroom management strategy that can replace effective mental health intervention. In some cases, this intervention should also be clinical and ongoing.

I have had seven year olds tell me they were going to punch me, stab me, kill me, rape me. I've had others express horrible recollections of abuse they have either been subjected to or witnessed. In other cases I've experienced generally overwhelmed families that have a cornucopia of financial challenges (paying multiple co-pays for disabled children or parents while also working two or three low paying jobs)

Interestingly enough, the demographic makeup of the school where I teach is similar to SH. The majority of our families on FARMS are actually not the families we have the most behavioral problems with.

Teachers and police are in a similar boat; we are hired to do our jobs but are compelled to triage severe mental health problems beyond both our training and scope. I've personally seen teachers be kicked, punched, threatened by parents with mental illnesses, and nothing be done by administrators.

DCPS needs to take a hard look in the mirror at spending priorities on mental health supports if it truly seeks to serve all children in the city and provide safe working environments for teachers.