Anonymous wrote:Set up schools within schools for students who constantly violate school norms with higher adult-to-student ratios, trauma-based services, and restricted access to the rest of the school. Pay teachers who work in these classrooms higher salaries.

Anonymous wrote:Here goes another witch hunt for the black school leader

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone who works in DCPS, I often find that there are so many inaccuracies in this forum. I’ve yet to discover if it’s the result of misinformation, bias, or something much more calculated.

There is no way a school leader would allow a drug deal to take place in their school and not do something about it. Especially if it were known. Senior leaders would not allow school leaders to remain at schools if this were a known problem. No school wakes up in the morning and says, I think I want to run a school in the ground. Bring the principal the receipts, (so that he/she is not accusing someone’s child of sellimg drugs based upon ancetodotes), and then allow the person to do something about it.

Parents should really visit schools, ask to shadow or volunteer so that they can see for themselves how safe our schools are.

I read inaccuracies about my school’s enrollment, class sizes, class offerings, etc all the time here. It's just blatantly wrong.

I also understand that parents create these narratives in part based upon their perception of the school’s leader and the demographics of the school.

The same for Mayor Bowser. So many people complain as if they can run a city as complex and diverse as this better than she can. Her perceived incompetence is rooted in one thing and one thing only.

If parents can run schools better than school leaders, you sure did an awful job with just a handful of kids, in a virtual setting.

Give leaders the feedback, offer your support, and give them the opportunity to fix it before you assume their appearance makes them incompetent.

The nonsense and gaslighting in this post are exactly what I’d expect from a DCPS employee. “ Bring the principal the receipts” is an offensively ridiculous statement. PP didn’t even bother to try to come up with a plausible way of passing the buck. How exactly would that work for a parent in the real world?

Parents are concerned about drug use and drug dealing because their kids tell them they see it and don’t feel safe at school.

Saying “This couldn’t be happening” is exactly what every person in an organization that’s failing to protect kids it has a responsibility to protect has always said everywhere, until the truth comes out, then they say “How could we have known?”

Anonymous wrote:As someone who works in DCPS, I often find that there are so many inaccuracies in this forum. I’ve yet to discover if it’s the result of misinformation, bias, or something much more calculated.

There is no way a school leader would allow a drug deal to take place in their school and not do something about it. Especially if it were known. Senior leaders would not allow school leaders to remain at schools if this were a known problem. No school wakes up in the morning and says, I think I want to run a school in the ground. Bring the principal the receipts, (so that he/she is not accusing someone’s child of sellimg drugs based upon ancetodotes), and then allow the person to do something about it.

Parents should really visit schools, ask to shadow or volunteer so that they can see for themselves how safe our schools are.

I read inaccuracies about my school’s enrollment, class sizes, class offerings, etc all the time here. It's just blatantly wrong.

I also understand that parents create these narratives in part based upon their perception of the school’s leader and the demographics of the school.

The same for Mayor Bowser. So many people complain as if they can run a city as complex and diverse as this better than she can. Her perceived incompetence is rooted in one thing and one thing only.

If parents can run schools better than school leaders, you sure did an awful job with just a handful of kids, in a virtual setting.

Give leaders the feedback, offer your support, and give them the opportunity to fix it before you assume their appearance makes them incompetent.

Anonymous wrote:It’s overdue for a change in leadership.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It certainly doesn't help that almost all behavior that is merely 'disruptive' and not actually violent gets a pass under the Fair Access to Schools Act:

Beginning in school year 2019-2020, no student in grades kindergarten through 8 may be subject to an out-of-school suspension or disciplinary unenrollment, unless a school administrator determines, consistent with school policy, that the student has willfully caused, attempted to cause, or threatened to cause bodily injury or emotional distress to another person, including behavior that happens off school grounds;

Schools are short-staffed as-is and it becomes challenging to enforce in-school suspension, especially when behavior such as smoking involves even 10, 15 students. That may only be 1% of the student body at Deal but when no punishment is possible because they can't staff in school suspension for 15 students at a time, others see that they can get away with these behaviors and things snowball.

Steps towards restorative justice are great, but schools still need to set expectations with clear and enforceable consequences.

The issue seems to be that they are not actually enforcing the law as written, if students who are violent are not suspended. Focusing on that rather than “lifestyle” infractions like smoking seems like the critical step.

Anonymous wrote:Sure leaders can be criticized, (it comes with the territory). To be clear, it isn’t the criticism that’s the problem. Asking that a leader, (especially a competent one), step down or step aside based upon bogus claims is an issue.

Let’s not deflect here.

Anonymous wrote:Sure leaders can be criticized, (it comes with the territory). To be clear, it isn’t the criticism that’s the problem. Asking that a leader, (especially a competent one), step down or step aside based upon bogus claims is an issue.

Let’s not deflect here.

Anonymous wrote:As someone who works in DCPS, I often find that there are so many inaccuracies in this forum. I’ve yet to discover if it’s the result of misinformation, bias, or something much more calculated.

There is no way a school leader would allow a drug deal to take place in their school and not do something about it. Especially if it were known. Senior leaders would not allow school leaders to remain at schools if this were a known problem. No school wakes up in the morning and says, I think I want to run a school in the ground. Bring the principal the receipts, (so that he/she is not accusing someone’s child of sellimg drugs based upon ancetodotes), and then allow the person to do something about it.

Parents should really visit schools, ask to shadow or volunteer so that they can see for themselves how safe our schools are.

I read inaccuracies about my school’s enrollment, class sizes, class offerings, etc all the time here. It's just blatantly wrong.

I also understand that parents create these narratives in part based upon their perception of the school’s leader and the demographics of the school.

The same for Mayor Bowser. So many people complain as if they can run a city as complex and diverse as this better than she can. Her perceived incompetence is rooted in one thing and one thing only.

If parents can run schools better than school leaders, you sure did an awful job with just a handful of kids, in a virtual setting.

Give leaders the feedback, offer your support, and give them the opportunity to fix it before you assume their appearance makes them incompetent.

Anonymous wrote:There’s plenty of foundation to support the claim, (thread upon thread on this very forum). Accusing a school leader of turning a blind eye to violence or crime is BS.

Many of these same schools, (Deal and Hardy), had similar challenges as the ones they’re currently experiencing, (if not worse), but because they have different leaders all of a sudden the schools are “going down”.

Stop it. Everyone knows what this game is about. As soon as the leadership changes back to the desired norm, the problems will suddenly all be solved though nothing would have changed at all except for the school’s leader.