Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious that the Hardy parents go-to insult on this forum to every teacher with an opposing viewpoint is to immediately go to the classist and elitist jabs of “they’re unhinged”, “toxic”, “rage-fueled”, “drunk”, and “bad at their jobs”.

Get off your snobby high horse. God some of you absolutely suck. Stop clutching your pearls and doubling down in your racist rhetoric because the teachers refuse to kowtow to you. Stop trying to discredit anyone who disagrees with you.

The only racist rhetoric here is that spread by those who insist that the requests for PJ to step aside we’re motivated by the color of their skin . I have seen or read absolutely nothing to indicate that this was the case. On the contrary, those jumping to PJ’s defense seem focused on little else other than his skin pigmentation, as if everything else should be completely ignored.

Please tell me this isnt fully thought thru. You're saying it's racist bc... The parents of ward 2 are the REAL victims here? OMG I don't know why I had higher opinions of DCUM posters. There really isn't any hope for your children.

The real victims are the DCPS students who suffer the consequences of attempts to weaponize identity politics and false accusations of racism to shield incompetent DCPS teachers and administrators.

The claims are always false to people who would need to reflect and realize why it's deeply racist to think operate and behave the way they do.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious that the Hardy parents go-to insult on this forum to every teacher with an opposing viewpoint is to immediately go to the classist and elitist jabs of “they’re unhinged”, “toxic”, “rage-fueled”, “drunk”, and “bad at their jobs”.

Get off your snobby high horse. God some of you absolutely suck. Stop clutching your pearls and doubling down in your racist rhetoric because the teachers refuse to kowtow to you. Stop trying to discredit anyone who disagrees with you.

The only racist rhetoric here is that spread by those who insist that the requests for PJ to step aside we’re motivated by the color of their skin . I have seen or read absolutely nothing to indicate that this was the case. On the contrary, those jumping to PJ’s defense seem focused on little else other than his skin pigmentation, as if everything else should be completely ignored.

Please tell me this isnt fully thought thru. You're saying it's racist bc... The parents of ward 2 are the REAL victims here? OMG I don't know why I had higher opinions of DCUM posters. There really isn't any hope for your children.

The real victims are the DCPS students who suffer the consequences of attempts to weaponize identity politics and false accusations of racism to shield incompetent DCPS teachers and administrators.

I have no doubt you think you were doing it for the students. All you did was destabilize your kids school

As of last Thursday, the school was in free fall. Hard to destabilize that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious that the Hardy parents go-to insult on this forum to every teacher with an opposing viewpoint is to immediately go to the classist and elitist jabs of “they’re unhinged”, “toxic”, “rage-fueled”, “drunk”, and “bad at their jobs”.

Get off your snobby high horse. God some of you absolutely suck. Stop clutching your pearls and doubling down in your racist rhetoric because the teachers refuse to kowtow to you. Stop trying to discredit anyone who disagrees with you.

The only racist rhetoric here is that spread by those who insist that the requests for PJ to step aside we’re motivated by the color of their skin . I have seen or read absolutely nothing to indicate that this was the case. On the contrary, those jumping to PJ’s defense seem focused on little else other than his skin pigmentation, as if everything else should be completely ignored.

Please tell me this isnt fully thought thru. You're saying it's racist bc... The parents of ward 2 are the REAL victims here? OMG I don't know why I had higher opinions of DCUM posters. There really isn't any hope for your children.

NP. I am old enough to remember when people deflecting substantive arguments with false accusations of racism put in the effort. No, they didn't say W2 parents where the victims. They said people like you who falsely claim racism are in fact guilty of racism. They pointed out that the only defenses thus far are based on some unfounded accusation that he was fired for being black. They ignore that DCPS made their own findings and replaced him but you ignore that inconvenient fact and pretend like the parents fired him.

Racism is real. Black people are discriminated against every day in myriad ways. People like you make it harder to fight actual racism when you cry wolf in situations like this.

Pp. If I'm guilty of racism here... Then who's the victim of my racism? I'm confused.
I'm laughing having heard it all and you stepped into clarify...nothing at all. If I'm racist, who is the victim?

It's either the wealthy white parents of ward 2 who organized to get a black man removed from his job even though his school has all the same problems other schools have.

Or it's the black principal himself. So if no one ever said the rich white parents are the victims of [my] and they're not...

You're saying I'm racist and the black principal is the victim of my racism bc I'm saying he shouldn't have been removed with 5 weeks left in the school year?

I'm okay not being on the same page as everyone who thinks that.

I was trying to be logical but I think lógic doesn't apply wherever white fragility is present hahaha cue the new meltdowns!! #whitefragility

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious that the Hardy parents go-to insult on this forum to every teacher with an opposing viewpoint is to immediately go to the classist and elitist jabs of “they’re unhinged”, “toxic”, “rage-fueled”, “drunk”, and “bad at their jobs”.

Get off your snobby high horse. God some of you absolutely suck. Stop clutching your pearls and doubling down in your racist rhetoric because the teachers refuse to kowtow to you. Stop trying to discredit anyone who disagrees with you.

The only racist rhetoric here is that spread by those who insist that the requests for PJ to step aside we’re motivated by the color of their skin . I have seen or read absolutely nothing to indicate that this was the case. On the contrary, those jumping to PJ’s defense seem focused on little else other than his skin pigmentation, as if everything else should be completely ignored.

Please tell me this isnt fully thought thru. You're saying it's racist bc... The parents of ward 2 are the REAL victims here? OMG I don't know why I had higher opinions of DCUM posters. There really isn't any hope for your children.

The real victims are the DCPS students who suffer the consequences of attempts to weaponize identity politics and false accusations of racism to shield incompetent DCPS teachers and administrators.

I have no doubt you think you were doing it for the students. All you did was destabilize your kids school

It was already unstable and moving in a negative direction. Change was the goal. Whether the change will work remains to be seen, but the status quo wasn't working.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious that the Hardy parents go-to insult on this forum to every teacher with an opposing viewpoint is to immediately go to the classist and elitist jabs of “they’re unhinged”, “toxic”, “rage-fueled”, “drunk”, and “bad at their jobs”.

Get off your snobby high horse. God some of you absolutely suck. Stop clutching your pearls and doubling down in your racist rhetoric because the teachers refuse to kowtow to you. Stop trying to discredit anyone who disagrees with you.

The only racist rhetoric here is that spread by those who insist that the requests for PJ to step aside we’re motivated by the color of their skin . I have seen or read absolutely nothing to indicate that this was the case. On the contrary, those jumping to PJ’s defense seem focused on little else other than his skin pigmentation, as if everything else should be completely ignored.

Please tell me this isnt fully thought thru. You're saying it's racist bc... The parents of ward 2 are the REAL victims here? OMG I don't know why I had higher opinions of DCUM posters. There really isn't any hope for your children.

The real victims are the DCPS students who suffer the consequences of attempts to weaponize identity politics and false accusations of racism to shield incompetent DCPS teachers and administrators.

I have no doubt you think you were doing it for the students. All you did was destabilize your kids school

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious that the Hardy parents go-to insult on this forum to every teacher with an opposing viewpoint is to immediately go to the classist and elitist jabs of “they’re unhinged”, “toxic”, “rage-fueled”, “drunk”, and “bad at their jobs”.

Get off your snobby high horse. God some of you absolutely suck. Stop clutching your pearls and doubling down in your racist rhetoric because the teachers refuse to kowtow to you. Stop trying to discredit anyone who disagrees with you.

The only racist rhetoric here is that spread by those who insist that the requests for PJ to step aside we’re motivated by the color of their skin . I have seen or read absolutely nothing to indicate that this was the case. On the contrary, those jumping to PJ’s defense seem focused on little else other than his skin pigmentation, as if everything else should be completely ignored.

Please tell me this isnt fully thought thru. You're saying it's racist bc... The parents of ward 2 are the REAL victims here? OMG I don't know why I had higher opinions of DCUM posters. There really isn't any hope for your children.

The real victims are the DCPS students who suffer the consequences of attempts to weaponize identity politics and false accusations of racism to shield incompetent DCPS teachers and administrators.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious that the Hardy parents go-to insult on this forum to every teacher with an opposing viewpoint is to immediately go to the classist and elitist jabs of “they’re unhinged”, “toxic”, “rage-fueled”, “drunk”, and “bad at their jobs”.

Get off your snobby high horse. God some of you absolutely suck. Stop clutching your pearls and doubling down in your racist rhetoric because the teachers refuse to kowtow to you. Stop trying to discredit anyone who disagrees with you.

The only racist rhetoric here is that spread by those who insist that the requests for PJ to step aside we’re motivated by the color of their skin . I have seen or read absolutely nothing to indicate that this was the case. On the contrary, those jumping to PJ’s defense seem focused on little else other than his skin pigmentation, as if everything else should be completely ignored.

Please tell me this isnt fully thought thru. You're saying it's racist bc... The parents of ward 2 are the REAL victims here? OMG I don't know why I had higher opinions of DCUM posters. There really isn't any hope for your children.

NP. I am old enough to remember when people deflecting substantive arguments with false accusations of racism put in the effort. No, they didn't say W2 parents where the victims. They said people like you who falsely claim racism are in fact guilty of racism. They pointed out that the only defenses thus far are based on some unfounded accusation that he was fired for being black. They ignore that DCPS made their own findings and replaced him but you ignore that inconvenient fact and pretend like the parents fired him.

Racism is real. Black people are discriminated against every day in myriad ways. People like you make it harder to fight actual racism when you cry wolf in situations like this.

I hesitate to tell you how this all works, but did you read the Post article? Do you think the reporter didn’t try to push the race angle hard, trying to get a nibble? Of course she did; that’s her job. It is entirely appropriate for her to question and explore if race mattered here.

Yet race doesn’t appear at all in the article. I cannot say exactly why this is, but usually it is because the officials shared with the reporter documentary evidence “off the record” making it abundantly clear race was not a factor. But go right ahead, believe now that the black IS, the black deputy Chancellor, the black Chancellor, the black mayor, and the black reporter are all in cahoots and doing the bidding of a narrow racist cabal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious that the Hardy parents go-to insult on this forum to every teacher with an opposing viewpoint is to immediately go to the classist and elitist jabs of “they’re unhinged”, “toxic”, “rage-fueled”, “drunk”, and “bad at their jobs”.

Get off your snobby high horse. God some of you absolutely suck. Stop clutching your pearls and doubling down in your racist rhetoric because the teachers refuse to kowtow to you. Stop trying to discredit anyone who disagrees with you.

The only racist rhetoric here is that spread by those who insist that the requests for PJ to step aside we’re motivated by the color of their skin . I have seen or read absolutely nothing to indicate that this was the case. On the contrary, those jumping to PJ’s defense seem focused on little else other than his skin pigmentation, as if everything else should be completely ignored.

Please tell me this isnt fully thought thru. You're saying it's racist bc... The parents of ward 2 are the REAL victims here? OMG I don't know why I had higher opinions of DCUM posters. There really isn't any hope for your children.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused about the schedule part of this. Are all schedules usually finalized by now? What about the summer? I feel like under Cooke’s during his first or second year we didn’t know anything about our schedule and teachers until about five minutes before school started and a couple of teachers were hired to fill vacancies months into the school year. This all predated the 90 minute block class mess of course—which PJ inherited. Along with the terrible budget.

Exactly. But we are dealing with a system that choose politics over kids and took the easy way out and not say NO to the bullies of upper NW.

I find it interesting how at a school with 60% BIPOC students, people are assuming it’s only “rich white parents” who wanted the change. That has not been the experience at all in my DCPS - and it’s a frequent (and dare I say racist?) assumption that only white parents have opinions on school issues.

It is well known that small ground s of privileged parents often take over schools and do exactly what was done at Hardy. White parents are not the only one that have opinions however they are often times the only ones DCPS really listens to. I am sure the parents over at schools that are 99-100% Black want safe schools and have petitioned DCPS. Nothing is done. Their children are forced to go to schools where students are being shot, massive gang fights, high teacher vacancies, etc. When the parents write letter and protest nothing is done. Radio Silence.

Let's assume you are correct. Is the answer then that all schools should be unsafe? That's moronic. The answer is that all parental voices should be heard and considered, whether from predominantly white UMC schools or low SES predominantly black schools. Your mentality is part of the reason you cannot get traction. Your response here is to demonize the white parents who were successful instead of focusing on the power structure that ignores your concerns. In doing so you make it easier for the power structure to ignore you. But, by all means, continue to throw temper tantrums and get mad at other parents if you think that's going to solve your problems.

YEP. this is especially infuriating given that the leftist line on schools is that white parents must not “hoard opportunities” and that kids who are “furthest from opportunity” (ie W7 and 8) should get seats in the schools that are wealthier/whiter. Well, how exactly do you think those opportunities are created? By parents with the resources and skills to advocate for their schools. Yet when white parents are perceived here as advocating successfully, they become “racist” and “trying to take over.” You cannot have it both ways. The NW schools are strong in part because the parents force DCPS to keep them strong.

amazing that you parents are now taking credit for NW (I assume code for white) schools are "strong". I assume you're referring to test scores with this.
I don't care how many L4 and L5 PARCC scores you add to our schools, I don't need someone playing principal bc they think they've earned the privilege

Isn't having kids meet grade-level expectations (L4) the point of school? If that is not your chief concern, what are you doing there?

Lol!! If that were the point of school, then DC wouldn’t be in the situation where the majority of students don’t reach L4. For most people, school is just a place to stick your kids while you are at work all day. That’s it. Education is gravy.

Really? So this whole petition thing was just because some people were bored? Silly me. Here I was thinking I actually care about my kid's education and daily experience.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused about the schedule part of this. Are all schedules usually finalized by now? What about the summer? I feel like under Cooke’s during his first or second year we didn’t know anything about our schedule and teachers until about five minutes before school started and a couple of teachers were hired to fill vacancies months into the school year. This all predated the 90 minute block class mess of course—which PJ inherited. Along with the terrible budget.

Exactly. But we are dealing with a system that choose politics over kids and took the easy way out and not say NO to the bullies of upper NW.

I find it interesting how at a school with 60% BIPOC students, people are assuming it’s only “rich white parents” who wanted the change. That has not been the experience at all in my DCPS - and it’s a frequent (and dare I say racist?) assumption that only white parents have opinions on school issues.

It is well known that small ground s of privileged parents often take over schools and do exactly what was done at Hardy. White parents are not the only one that have opinions however they are often times the only ones DCPS really listens to. I am sure the parents over at schools that are 99-100% Black want safe schools and have petitioned DCPS. Nothing is done. Their children are forced to go to schools where students are being shot, massive gang fights, high teacher vacancies, etc. When the parents write letter and protest nothing is done. Radio Silence.

Let's assume you are correct. Is the answer then that all schools should be unsafe? That's moronic. The answer is that all parental voices should be heard and considered, whether from predominantly white UMC schools or low SES predominantly black schools. Your mentality is part of the reason you cannot get traction. Your response here is to demonize the white parents who were successful instead of focusing on the power structure that ignores your concerns. In doing so you make it easier for the power structure to ignore you. But, by all means, continue to throw temper tantrums and get mad at other parents if you think that's going to solve your problems.

YEP. this is especially infuriating given that the leftist line on schools is that white parents must not “hoard opportunities” and that kids who are “furthest from opportunity” (ie W7 and 8) should get seats in the schools that are wealthier/whiter. Well, how exactly do you think those opportunities are created? By parents with the resources and skills to advocate for their schools. Yet when white parents are perceived here as advocating successfully, they become “racist” and “trying to take over.” You cannot have it both ways. The NW schools are strong in part because the parents force DCPS to keep them strong.

amazing that you parents are now taking credit for NW (I assume code for white) schools are "strong". I assume you're referring to test scores with this.
I don't care how many L4 and L5 PARCC scores you add to our schools, I don't need someone playing principal bc they think they've earned the privilege

Isn't having kids meet grade-level expectations (L4) the point of school? If that is not your chief concern, what are you doing there?

There's not much challenge in keeping students on grade level when they arrive there on grade level. Parents often mistaken teacher (and admin) quality based on proficiency in testing. That's not at all what I consider the point of school

Agreed that tests themselves are not the point, but you seem unconcerned about the whole learning thing. Best I can tell, all you are concerned with is your autonomy.

I love learning! That's why I'm a teacher. I just lost of month of teaching to accommodate PARCC testing and now we're again losing time to get ready for all the other EOY tests.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused about the schedule part of this. Are all schedules usually finalized by now? What about the summer? I feel like under Cooke’s during his first or second year we didn’t know anything about our schedule and teachers until about five minutes before school started and a couple of teachers were hired to fill vacancies months into the school year. This all predated the 90 minute block class mess of course—which PJ inherited. Along with the terrible budget.

Exactly. But we are dealing with a system that choose politics over kids and took the easy way out and not say NO to the bullies of upper NW.

I find it interesting how at a school with 60% BIPOC students, people are assuming it’s only “rich white parents” who wanted the change. That has not been the experience at all in my DCPS - and it’s a frequent (and dare I say racist?) assumption that only white parents have opinions on school issues.

It is well known that small ground s of privileged parents often take over schools and do exactly what was done at Hardy. White parents are not the only one that have opinions however they are often times the only ones DCPS really listens to. I am sure the parents over at schools that are 99-100% Black want safe schools and have petitioned DCPS. Nothing is done. Their children are forced to go to schools where students are being shot, massive gang fights, high teacher vacancies, etc. When the parents write letter and protest nothing is done. Radio Silence.

Let's assume you are correct. Is the answer then that all schools should be unsafe? That's moronic. The answer is that all parental voices should be heard and considered, whether from predominantly white UMC schools or low SES predominantly black schools. Your mentality is part of the reason you cannot get traction. Your response here is to demonize the white parents who were successful instead of focusing on the power structure that ignores your concerns. In doing so you make it easier for the power structure to ignore you. But, by all means, continue to throw temper tantrums and get mad at other parents if you think that's going to solve your problems.

YEP. this is especially infuriating given that the leftist line on schools is that white parents must not “hoard opportunities” and that kids who are “furthest from opportunity” (ie W7 and 8) should get seats in the schools that are wealthier/whiter. Well, how exactly do you think those opportunities are created? By parents with the resources and skills to advocate for their schools. Yet when white parents are perceived here as advocating successfully, they become “racist” and “trying to take over.” You cannot have it both ways. The NW schools are strong in part because the parents force DCPS to keep them strong.

amazing that you parents are now taking credit for NW (I assume code for white) schools are "strong". I assume you're referring to test scores with this.
I don't care how many L4 and L5 PARCC scores you add to our schools, I don't need someone playing principal bc they think they've earned the privilege

Isn't having kids meet grade-level expectations (L4) the point of school? If that is not your chief concern, what are you doing there?

There's not much challenge in keeping students on grade level when they arrive there on grade level. Parents often mistaken teacher (and admin) quality based on proficiency in testing. That's not at all what I consider the point of school

Agreed that tests themselves are not the point, but you seem unconcerned about the whole learning thing. Best I can tell, all you are concerned with is your autonomy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused about the schedule part of this. Are all schedules usually finalized by now? What about the summer? I feel like under Cooke’s during his first or second year we didn’t know anything about our schedule and teachers until about five minutes before school started and a couple of teachers were hired to fill vacancies months into the school year. This all predated the 90 minute block class mess of course—which PJ inherited. Along with the terrible budget.

Exactly. But we are dealing with a system that choose politics over kids and took the easy way out and not say NO to the bullies of upper NW.

I find it interesting how at a school with 60% BIPOC students, people are assuming it’s only “rich white parents” who wanted the change. That has not been the experience at all in my DCPS - and it’s a frequent (and dare I say racist?) assumption that only white parents have opinions on school issues.

It is well known that small ground s of privileged parents often take over schools and do exactly what was done at Hardy. White parents are not the only one that have opinions however they are often times the only ones DCPS really listens to. I am sure the parents over at schools that are 99-100% Black want safe schools and have petitioned DCPS. Nothing is done. Their children are forced to go to schools where students are being shot, massive gang fights, high teacher vacancies, etc. When the parents write letter and protest nothing is done. Radio Silence.

Let's assume you are correct. Is the answer then that all schools should be unsafe? That's moronic. The answer is that all parental voices should be heard and considered, whether from predominantly white UMC schools or low SES predominantly black schools. Your mentality is part of the reason you cannot get traction. Your response here is to demonize the white parents who were successful instead of focusing on the power structure that ignores your concerns. In doing so you make it easier for the power structure to ignore you. But, by all means, continue to throw temper tantrums and get mad at other parents if you think that's going to solve your problems.

YEP. this is especially infuriating given that the leftist line on schools is that white parents must not “hoard opportunities” and that kids who are “furthest from opportunity” (ie W7 and 8) should get seats in the schools that are wealthier/whiter. Well, how exactly do you think those opportunities are created? By parents with the resources and skills to advocate for their schools. Yet when white parents are perceived here as advocating successfully, they become “racist” and “trying to take over.” You cannot have it both ways. The NW schools are strong in part because the parents force DCPS to keep them strong.

amazing that you parents are now taking credit for NW (I assume code for white) schools are "strong". I assume you're referring to test scores with this.
I don't care how many L4 and L5 PARCC scores you add to our schools, I don't need someone playing principal bc they think they've earned the privilege

Isn't having kids meet grade-level expectations (L4) the point of school? If that is not your chief concern, what are you doing there?

Lol!! If that were the point of school, then DC wouldn’t be in the situation where the majority of students don’t reach L4. For most people, school is just a place to stick your kids while you are at work all day. That’s it. Education is gravy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused about the schedule part of this. Are all schedules usually finalized by now? What about the summer? I feel like under Cooke’s during his first or second year we didn’t know anything about our schedule and teachers until about five minutes before school started and a couple of teachers were hired to fill vacancies months into the school year. This all predated the 90 minute block class mess of course—which PJ inherited. Along with the terrible budget.

Exactly. But we are dealing with a system that choose politics over kids and took the easy way out and not say NO to the bullies of upper NW.

I find it interesting how at a school with 60% BIPOC students, people are assuming it’s only “rich white parents” who wanted the change. That has not been the experience at all in my DCPS - and it’s a frequent (and dare I say racist?) assumption that only white parents have opinions on school issues.

It is well known that small ground s of privileged parents often take over schools and do exactly what was done at Hardy. White parents are not the only one that have opinions however they are often times the only ones DCPS really listens to. I am sure the parents over at schools that are 99-100% Black want safe schools and have petitioned DCPS. Nothing is done. Their children are forced to go to schools where students are being shot, massive gang fights, high teacher vacancies, etc. When the parents write letter and protest nothing is done. Radio Silence.

Let's assume you are correct. Is the answer then that all schools should be unsafe? That's moronic. The answer is that all parental voices should be heard and considered, whether from predominantly white UMC schools or low SES predominantly black schools. Your mentality is part of the reason you cannot get traction. Your response here is to demonize the white parents who were successful instead of focusing on the power structure that ignores your concerns. In doing so you make it easier for the power structure to ignore you. But, by all means, continue to throw temper tantrums and get mad at other parents if you think that's going to solve your problems.

YEP. this is especially infuriating given that the leftist line on schools is that white parents must not “hoard opportunities” and that kids who are “furthest from opportunity” (ie W7 and 8) should get seats in the schools that are wealthier/whiter. Well, how exactly do you think those opportunities are created? By parents with the resources and skills to advocate for their schools. Yet when white parents are perceived here as advocating successfully, they become “racist” and “trying to take over.” You cannot have it both ways. The NW schools are strong in part because the parents force DCPS to keep them strong.

amazing that you parents are now taking credit for NW (I assume code for white) schools are "strong". I assume you're referring to test scores with this.
I don't care how many L4 and L5 PARCC scores you add to our schools, I don't need someone playing principal bc they think they've earned the privilege

Isn't having kids meet grade-level expectations (L4) the point of school? If that is not your chief concern, what are you doing there?

There's not much challenge in keeping students on grade level when they arrive there on grade level. Parents often mistaken teacher (and admin) quality based on proficiency in testing. That's not at all what I consider the point of school

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused about the schedule part of this. Are all schedules usually finalized by now? What about the summer? I feel like under Cooke’s during his first or second year we didn’t know anything about our schedule and teachers until about five minutes before school started and a couple of teachers were hired to fill vacancies months into the school year. This all predated the 90 minute block class mess of course—which PJ inherited. Along with the terrible budget.

Exactly. But we are dealing with a system that choose politics over kids and took the easy way out and not say NO to the bullies of upper NW.

I find it interesting how at a school with 60% BIPOC students, people are assuming it’s only “rich white parents” who wanted the change. That has not been the experience at all in my DCPS - and it’s a frequent (and dare I say racist?) assumption that only white parents have opinions on school issues.

It is well known that small ground s of privileged parents often take over schools and do exactly what was done at Hardy. White parents are not the only one that have opinions however they are often times the only ones DCPS really listens to. I am sure the parents over at schools that are 99-100% Black want safe schools and have petitioned DCPS. Nothing is done. Their children are forced to go to schools where students are being shot, massive gang fights, high teacher vacancies, etc. When the parents write letter and protest nothing is done. Radio Silence.

Let's assume you are correct. Is the answer then that all schools should be unsafe? That's moronic. The answer is that all parental voices should be heard and considered, whether from predominantly white UMC schools or low SES predominantly black schools. Your mentality is part of the reason you cannot get traction. Your response here is to demonize the white parents who were successful instead of focusing on the power structure that ignores your concerns. In doing so you make it easier for the power structure to ignore you. But, by all means, continue to throw temper tantrums and get mad at other parents if you think that's going to solve your problems.

YEP. this is especially infuriating given that the leftist line on schools is that white parents must not “hoard opportunities” and that kids who are “furthest from opportunity” (ie W7 and 8) should get seats in the schools that are wealthier/whiter. Well, how exactly do you think those opportunities are created? By parents with the resources and skills to advocate for their schools. Yet when white parents are perceived here as advocating successfully, they become “racist” and “trying to take over.” You cannot have it both ways. The NW schools are strong in part because the parents force DCPS to keep them strong.

amazing that you parents are now taking credit for NW (I assume code for white) schools are "strong". I assume you're referring to test scores with this.
I don't care how many L4 and L5 PARCC scores you add to our schools, I don't need someone playing principal bc they think they've earned the privilege

Isn't having kids meet grade-level expectations (L4) the point of school? If that is not your chief concern, what are you doing there?