Anonymous
05/28/2026 17:46
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Janeese wants to slash funding for charter schools, reduce classtime so teachers can get more time off and opposes raising education standards, including created gifted and talented programs. No thanks. I want someone who won't just do the bidding of the teachers union.
Where did the part about not wanting to raise standards came from? Genuine question - really trying to understand where all the candidates stand on education issues.
People on the far left (like Janeese) would rather claw their eyes out than raise academic standards because they think that's racist because they think it will hurt black kids. Their plan to reduce racial disparities in academic achievement is to make school so easy that no one can fail.
As opposed to an Independent who doesn’t care either way. Duff has zero credibility with public education. Has no track record of supporting initiatives beyond modernization. So he’s for using 85 million for a school with 300 kids.
FYI what you said isn’t proof, just your weird and wrong feelings.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 17:44
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school.
Wait, did she really say that???
No, I don't think she did, but I think I know how this misinformation came to be:
1) In some survey (I think the WTU survey), Lewis George said she supported "more differentiated professional development" ...if you read it, you can tell it means "professional development that is differentiated better" not "more professional development"
2) Matt Yglesias then tweeted a screenshot of it and said something along the lines of: Lewis George is calling for less classroom time
3) People then accepted his totally incorrect reading of it and retweeted it saying oh no she wants less class time
The bottom lines are: Lewis George didn't advocate for less classroom time - Matt Yglesias made that up, and if you're annoyed about half-day Wednesdays, that is not actually a mayoral issue because the mayor is over DCPS but doesn't set policies like that for charters and only charters do half-day Wednesdays.
This is Janeese talking out of both sides of her mouth, per usual. She came out in favor of PD days, then, when the inevitable blowback came, pretended that didn't necessarily mean less classtime and came up with this meaningless "professional development that is differentiated better" phrasing.
The basic trade JLG has made with the teachers union throughout her career is that she gives them carte blanche over her education policies in exchange for them giving her its get-out-the-vote operation at election time.
I am a teacher, I was in every meeting we had with her. This is not true, stop lying because as a whole we didn’t support McDuffie, who refused to meet with us or really anyone for that matter.
If you have been paying attention teachers would like less PD days or more meaningful ones. Also you want the experts who teach children to have NO say in policies? That’s a very odd stance.
Thank you for saying this. McDuffie and his team have barely engaged on education issues.
They skipped the education debate. Regardless of where you stand on JLG I can't fathom voting for a guy who has put in basically zero effort and refuses to do any actual constituent work.
Janeese wants to slash funding for charter schools, reduce classtime so teachers can get more time off and opposes raising education standards, including created gifted and talented programs. No thanks. I want someone who won't just do the bidding of the teachers union.
You must be the same person. Stop lying. I am a teacher, the union does not want this. You also must not be engaged in education, teachers have testified FOR higher standards not against.
There will be no slashing of charter funds. Tell me where JLG says this.
It’s fine to want someone else to win, albeit a poor choice if you have children in public schools -what’s not fine is lying out of your ass to slander a candidate but also the very people who teach children.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 16:56
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Janeese wants to slash funding for charter schools, reduce classtime so teachers can get more time off and opposes raising education standards, including created gifted and talented programs. No thanks. I want someone who won't just do the bidding of the teachers union.
Where did the part about not wanting to raise standards came from? Genuine question - really trying to understand where all the candidates stand on education issues.
People on the far left (like Janeese) would rather claw their eyes out than raise academic standards because they think that's racist because they think it will hurt black kids. Their plan to reduce racial disparities in academic achievement is to make school so easy that no one can fail.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 16:55
Subject: Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Never fails, seriously. Parents really complaining about PD time. So outrageously short-sighted.
Our kids are never in school. The amount of time DC schools take off is bananas.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 16:23
Subject: Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Never fails, seriously. Parents really complaining about PD time. So outrageously short-sighted.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 16:20
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:
Janeese wants to slash funding for charter schools, reduce classtime so teachers can get more time off and opposes raising education standards, including created gifted and talented programs. No thanks. I want someone who won't just do the bidding of the teachers union.
Where did the part about not wanting to raise standards came from? Genuine question - really trying to understand where all the candidates stand on education issues.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 14:14
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school.
Wait, did she really say that???
No, I don't think she did, but I think I know how this misinformation came to be:
1) In some survey (I think the WTU survey), Lewis George said she supported "more differentiated professional development" ...if you read it, you can tell it means "professional development that is differentiated better" not "more professional development"
2) Matt Yglesias then tweeted a screenshot of it and said something along the lines of: Lewis George is calling for less classroom time
3) People then accepted his totally incorrect reading of it and retweeted it saying oh no she wants less class time
The bottom lines are: Lewis George didn't advocate for less classroom time - Matt Yglesias made that up, and if you're annoyed about half-day Wednesdays, that is not actually a mayoral issue because the mayor is over DCPS but doesn't set policies like that for charters and only charters do half-day Wednesdays.
Anyone believing Yglesias at this juncture just wants a reason to be upset and support their own existing narrative. He's a hack.
DC technically mandates 180 days, though there is no national minimum, so it'd likely require a lot of council time to change that for something no one has an appetite for anyways
Janeese filled out a questionnaire in which she said she'd give teachers more PD time. It's publicly available. As you well know, no one needs to change the 180 day rule to accommodate that. They'll just do what they always do, which is use accounting tricks to make days off count as days in session.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 14:05
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school.
Wait, did she really say that???
No, I don't think she did, but I think I know how this misinformation came to be:
1) In some survey (I think the WTU survey), Lewis George said she supported "more differentiated professional development" ...if you read it, you can tell it means "professional development that is differentiated better" not "more professional development"
2) Matt Yglesias then tweeted a screenshot of it and said something along the lines of: Lewis George is calling for less classroom time
3) People then accepted his totally incorrect reading of it and retweeted it saying oh no she wants less class time
The bottom lines are: Lewis George didn't advocate for less classroom time - Matt Yglesias made that up, and if you're annoyed about half-day Wednesdays, that is not actually a mayoral issue because the mayor is over DCPS but doesn't set policies like that for charters and only charters do half-day Wednesdays.
This is Janeese talking out of both sides of her mouth, per usual. She came out in favor of PD days, then, when the inevitable blowback came, pretended that didn't necessarily mean less classtime and came up with this meaningless "professional development that is differentiated better" phrasing.
The basic trade JLG has made with the teachers union throughout her career is that she gives them carte blanche over her education policies in exchange for them giving her its get-out-the-vote operation at election time.
I am a teacher, I was in every meeting we had with her. This is not true, stop lying because as a whole we didn’t support McDuffie, who refused to meet with us or really anyone for that matter.
If you have been paying attention teachers would like less PD days or more meaningful ones. Also you want the experts who teach children to have NO say in policies? That’s a very odd stance.
Thank you for saying this. McDuffie and his team have barely engaged on education issues.
They skipped the education debate. Regardless of where you stand on JLG I can't fathom voting for a guy who has put in basically zero effort and refuses to do any actual constituent work.
Janeese wants to slash funding for charter schools, reduce classtime so teachers can get more time off and opposes raising education standards, including created gifted and talented programs. No thanks. I want someone who won't just do the bidding of the teachers union.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 14:02
Subject: Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
JLG is my preferred candidate but the one pager on education on her website reads like a non-committal word salad. Does anyone have a resource that explains what she'd actually do re. education while in office?
McDuffie's page meanwhile says everything I personally would want it to say, but I worry that there's a difference between saying the right things and actually delivering... I get the sense he's not so in to really doing the work. Is that right?
McDuffie's page meanwhile says everything I personally would want it to say, but I worry that there's a difference between saying the right things and actually delivering... I get the sense he's not so in to really doing the work. Is that right?
Anonymous
05/28/2026 13:38
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school.
Wait, did she really say that???
No, I don't think she did, but I think I know how this misinformation came to be:
1) In some survey (I think the WTU survey), Lewis George said she supported "more differentiated professional development" ...if you read it, you can tell it means "professional development that is differentiated better" not "more professional development"
2) Matt Yglesias then tweeted a screenshot of it and said something along the lines of: Lewis George is calling for less classroom time
3) People then accepted his totally incorrect reading of it and retweeted it saying oh no she wants less class time
The bottom lines are: Lewis George didn't advocate for less classroom time - Matt Yglesias made that up, and if you're annoyed about half-day Wednesdays, that is not actually a mayoral issue because the mayor is over DCPS but doesn't set policies like that for charters and only charters do half-day Wednesdays.
This is Janeese talking out of both sides of her mouth, per usual. She came out in favor of PD days, then, when the inevitable blowback came, pretended that didn't necessarily mean less classtime and came up with this meaningless "professional development that is differentiated better" phrasing.
The basic trade JLG has made with the teachers union throughout her career is that she gives them carte blanche over her education policies in exchange for them giving her its get-out-the-vote operation at election time.
I am a teacher, I was in every meeting we had with her. This is not true, stop lying because as a whole we didn’t support McDuffie, who refused to meet with us or really anyone for that matter.
If you have been paying attention teachers would like less PD days or more meaningful ones. Also you want the experts who teach children to have NO say in policies? That’s a very odd stance.
Thank you for saying this. McDuffie and his team have barely engaged on education issues.
They skipped the education debate. Regardless of where you stand on JLG I can't fathom voting for a guy who has put in basically zero effort and refuses to do any actual constituent work.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 13:35
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school.
Wait, did she really say that???
No, I don't think she did, but I think I know how this misinformation came to be:
1) In some survey (I think the WTU survey), Lewis George said she supported "more differentiated professional development" ...if you read it, you can tell it means "professional development that is differentiated better" not "more professional development"
2) Matt Yglesias then tweeted a screenshot of it and said something along the lines of: Lewis George is calling for less classroom time
3) People then accepted his totally incorrect reading of it and retweeted it saying oh no she wants less class time
The bottom lines are: Lewis George didn't advocate for less classroom time - Matt Yglesias made that up, and if you're annoyed about half-day Wednesdays, that is not actually a mayoral issue because the mayor is over DCPS but doesn't set policies like that for charters and only charters do half-day Wednesdays.
Anyone believing Yglesias at this juncture just wants a reason to be upset and support their own existing narrative. He's a hack.
DC technically mandates 180 days, though there is no national minimum, so it'd likely require a lot of council time to change that for something no one has an appetite for anyways
Anonymous
05/28/2026 13:31
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school.
Wait, did she really say that???
Please do your own research. She didn’t say that and there are a lot of people spreading misinformation on purpose
Anonymous
05/28/2026 13:22
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school.
Wait, did she really say that???
No, I don't think she did, but I think I know how this misinformation came to be:
1) In some survey (I think the WTU survey), Lewis George said she supported "more differentiated professional development" ...if you read it, you can tell it means "professional development that is differentiated better" not "more professional development"
2) Matt Yglesias then tweeted a screenshot of it and said something along the lines of: Lewis George is calling for less classroom time
3) People then accepted his totally incorrect reading of it and retweeted it saying oh no she wants less class time
The bottom lines are: Lewis George didn't advocate for less classroom time - Matt Yglesias made that up, and if you're annoyed about half-day Wednesdays, that is not actually a mayoral issue because the mayor is over DCPS but doesn't set policies like that for charters and only charters do half-day Wednesdays.
This is Janeese talking out of both sides of her mouth, per usual. She came out in favor of PD days, then, when the inevitable blowback came, pretended that didn't necessarily mean less classtime and came up with this meaningless "professional development that is differentiated better" phrasing.
The basic trade JLG has made with the teachers union throughout her career is that she gives them carte blanche over her education policies in exchange for them giving her its get-out-the-vote operation at election time.
I am a teacher, I was in every meeting we had with her. This is not true, stop lying because as a whole we didn’t support McDuffie, who refused to meet with us or really anyone for that matter.
If you have been paying attention teachers would like less PD days or more meaningful ones. Also you want the experts who teach children to have NO say in policies? That’s a very odd stance.
Thank you for saying this. McDuffie and his team have barely engaged on education issues.
McDuffie has an entire education plan on his website - and it sounds good to me. https://kenyanmcduffie.com/platform/education
Anonymous
05/28/2026 08:31
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school.
Wait, did she really say that???
No, I don't think she did, but I think I know how this misinformation came to be:
1) In some survey (I think the WTU survey), Lewis George said she supported "more differentiated professional development" ...if you read it, you can tell it means "professional development that is differentiated better" not "more professional development"
2) Matt Yglesias then tweeted a screenshot of it and said something along the lines of: Lewis George is calling for less classroom time
3) People then accepted his totally incorrect reading of it and retweeted it saying oh no she wants less class time
The bottom lines are: Lewis George didn't advocate for less classroom time - Matt Yglesias made that up, and if you're annoyed about half-day Wednesdays, that is not actually a mayoral issue because the mayor is over DCPS but doesn't set policies like that for charters and only charters do half-day Wednesdays.
This is Janeese talking out of both sides of her mouth, per usual. She came out in favor of PD days, then, when the inevitable blowback came, pretended that didn't necessarily mean less classtime and came up with this meaningless "professional development that is differentiated better" phrasing.
The bigger issue is that JLG supports this plan by Bowser to cut charter school funding to the tune of $9,700 per student compared to what DCPS would get.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 06:40
Subject: Re:Do charter schools really need early dismissal Wednesdays?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis isGeorge says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school.
She really is the worst
Ya’ll will do anything to attack black women. Just because you are used to mediocre YT women in leadership roles, doesn’t mean you should be harboring negativity about a successful black woman like JLG.
What a bizarre take. You do know that the current mayor of DC is a Black woman, that all DC mayors for the past 50 years have been Black, that the outgoing Chancellor of Education is a Black man, as was his immediate predecessor who himself was proceeded by a Black woman who herself followed a woman of color (y’all can hate her but she wasn’t white and she was appointed by a Black man)? That the SBOE president is a Black man and there are no white women on it at all (three white men)? That the board chair of DC PCSB is a Black woman as is the ED? Black political and educational leadership in DC is neither new nor novel.