Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I completely disagree with the rambling post about the former Janney principal.
She was not perfect but she did a lot of good things for Janney. Expanding preK classes is a very rational decision and something the new principal will not change.
Including PreK classes is good for the community and these classes bring in a lot of money for the school as a whole.
The last principal worked all the time and genuinely cared about the students. Were all her decisions good - no, of course not.
However, she transformed Janney into a powerhouse school with strong values. She has a challenge with her new school but I wish her the best of luck.
It will be a sad day when she leaves DCPS. Individuals like her are few and far between at DCPS.

Please explain how including PK classes bring in a lot of money for the school. Are you thinking in terms of fundraising?

wondering the same thing. Even if the per student money is higher than other grades, aren't the costs higher?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I completely disagree with the rambling post about the former Janney principal.
She was not perfect but she did a lot of good things for Janney. Expanding preK classes is a very rational decision and something the new principal will not change.
Including PreK classes is good for the community and these classes bring in a lot of money for the school as a whole.
The last principal worked all the time and genuinely cared about the students. Were all her decisions good - no, of course not.
However, she transformed Janney into a powerhouse school with strong values. She has a challenge with her new school but I wish her the best of luck.
It will be a sad day when she leaves DCPS. Individuals like her are few and far between at DCPS.

Please explain how including PK classes bring in a lot of money for the school. Are you thinking in terms of fundraising?

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a Janney parent, but it seems like the overcrowding blame should fall squarely on the folks who fought the boundary revision process so hard. I guess DCPS could have done a better job standing up to that interest group, but it looks to me like DCPS is basically just letting Janney parents reap what they sowed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I completely disagree with the rambling post about the former Janney principal.
She was not perfect but she did a lot of good things for Janney. Expanding preK classes is a very rational decision and something the new principal will not change.
Including PreK classes is good for the community and these classes bring in a lot of money for the school as a whole.
The last principal worked all the time and genuinely cared about the students. Were all her decisions good - no, of course not.
However, she transformed Janney into a powerhouse school with strong values. She has a challenge with her new school but I wish her the best of luck.
It will be a sad day when she leaves DCPS. Individuals like her are few and far between at DCPS.

Please explain how including PK classes bring in a lot of money for the school. Are you thinking in terms of fundraising?

Anonymous wrote:I completely disagree with the rambling post about the former Janney principal.
She was not perfect but she did a lot of good things for Janney. Expanding preK classes is a very rational decision and something the new principal will not change.
Including PreK classes is good for the community and these classes bring in a lot of money for the school as a whole.
The last principal worked all the time and genuinely cared about the students. Were all her decisions good - no, of course not.
However, she transformed Janney into a powerhouse school with strong values. She has a challenge with her new school but I wish her the best of luck.
It will be a sad day when she leaves DCPS. Individuals like her are few and far between at DCPS.

Anonymous wrote:most of this should rest on the shoulders of the former principal. she made decisions without teacher input and then told them it was a done deal. as often happened, teachers were not told their assignments until the last day of school or later. some had no choice. we can't make a blanket statement such as "my child was in a class with thirty children and it worked well." we have to look at the classroom size, school curriculum and the experience of the teachers. the principal did this once before and it was a mess. one teacher said she would not do it again, after three years and was told if she didn't like it she could leave. which she did.
many good, experienced teachers left because of her style of "running the school." so glad the new administration is more focused on the children. she has inherited a difficult situation and should be given an opportunity and support in trying to work through the mess left by the last principal. do you all know that she was not in the building during the last few days of school? she left her office a mess for the new principal to clean. how professional. good riddance to bad rubbish. PS- her comamndo style is not working at her new school with middle school parents and students. karma !!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:most of this should rest on the shoulders of the former principal. she made decisions without teacher input and then told them it was a done deal. as often happened, teachers were not told their assignments until the last day of school or later. some had no choice. we can't make a blanket statement such as "my child was in a class with thirty children and it worked well." we have to look at the classroom size, school curriculum and the experience of the teachers. the principal did this once before and it was a mess. one teacher said she would not do it again, after three years and was told if she didn't like it she could leave. which she did.
many good, experienced teachers left because of her style of "running the school." so glad the new administration is more focused on the children. she has inherited a difficult situation and should be given an opportunity and support in trying to work through the mess left by the last principal. do you all know that she was not in the building during the last few days of school? she left her office a mess for the new principal to clean. how professional. good riddance to bad rubbish. PS- her comamndo style is not working at her new school with middle school parents and students. karma !!

You sound somewhat unhinged.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:most of this should rest on the shoulders of the former principal. she made decisions without teacher input and then told them it was a done deal. as often happened, teachers were not told their assignments until the last day of school or later. some had no choice. we can't make a blanket statement such as "my child was in a class with thirty children and it worked well." we have to look at the classroom size, school curriculum and the experience of the teachers. the principal did this once before and it was a mess. one teacher said she would not do it again, after three years and was told if she didn't like it she could leave. which she did.
many good, experienced teachers left because of her style of "running the school." so glad the new administration is more focused on the children. she has inherited a difficult situation and should be given an opportunity and support in trying to work through the mess left by the last principal. do you all know that she was not in the building during the last few days of school? she left her office a mess for the new principal to clean. how professional. good riddance to bad rubbish. PS- her comamndo style is not working at her new school with middle school parents and students. karma !!

You sound somewhat unhinged.

Anonymous wrote:most of this should rest on the shoulders of the former principal. she made decisions without teacher input and then told them it was a done deal. as often happened, teachers were not told their assignments until the last day of school or later. some had no choice. we can't make a blanket statement such as "my child was in a class with thirty children and it worked well." we have to look at the classroom size, school curriculum and the experience of the teachers. the principal did this once before and it was a mess. one teacher said she would not do it again, after three years and was told if she didn't like it she could leave. which she did.
many good, experienced teachers left because of her style of "running the school." so glad the new administration is more focused on the children. she has inherited a difficult situation and should be given an opportunity and support in trying to work through the mess left by the last principal. do you all know that she was not in the building during the last few days of school? she left her office a mess for the new principal to clean. how professional. good riddance to bad rubbish. PS- her comamndo style is not working at her new school with middle school parents and students. karma !!

Anonymous wrote:

This comment is pretty revealing. Much of the postings have been about redrawing boundaries so that Hearst becomes more of a neighborhood/IB school, thereby relieving overcrowding at Janney. But it's clear that the Hearst community would view this as an "occupation." They have no interest in Hearst becoming a primarily neighborhood-based school because they want Hearst to remain a Distrct-wide school that just happens to be located in the neighborhood.

Exactly. If 100 new kids were zoned to Hearst from current Murch and Janney streets -- kids who in many cases could walk -- then that -could- mean 80-100 fewer kids from Mt. Pleasant, Crestwood, 14th St and Columbia Hts. And naturally, we can't turn off that cross-park tap for some reason. Historical established rights or somethin'

Anonymous wrote:most of this should rest on the shoulders of the former principal. she made decisions without teacher input and then told them it was a done deal. as often happened, teachers were not told their assignments until the last day of school or later. some had no choice. we can't make a blanket statement such as "my child was in a class with thirty children and it worked well." we have to look at the classroom size, school curriculum and the experience of the teachers. the principal did this once before and it was a mess. one teacher said she would not do it again, after three years and was told if she didn't like it she could leave. which she did.
many good, experienced teachers left because of her style of "running the school." so glad the new administration is more focused on the children. she has inherited a difficult situation and should be given an opportunity and support in trying to work through the mess left by the last principal. do you all know that she was not in the building during the last few days of school? she left her office a mess for the new principal to clean. how professional. good riddance to bad rubbish. PS- her comamndo style is not working at her new school with middle school parents and students. karma !!