Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 13:15     Subject: Re:JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Half day Wednesdays would require my kids to be in transit back and forth to their school about as long as they are in school. Truancy will balloon. And once school feels optional, MORE truancy.


We learned during the pandemic that JLG does not care about your kids' needs. She's here for WTU's wants.


So we now depend on WTU and their asks. Fingers crossed they ask for reasonable things that are good for our kids and not less time teaching
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 12:56     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
So she’ll cut chapter school funding and in response trump will figure a way to cut DCPS funding? Everybody wins
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 12:56     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So now we get to move on to what we want out of JLG.

I’m a DCPS parent but I think it’d be a good time for the charter sector to figure out what it wants to ask her for. Assurances? Something new?


Does she have kids in school? If not, it's quite likely she has a general sense that the charter schools are elitist and bad. She may have the idealized sense that everyone should "just go to the local school" and magically make it great. This may not be explicit, just vibes. Therefore, step one might be to make the strong case for how charters serve kids here and do not only serve the elite kids (obvious, but it's more a matter of changing the image of the charter schools).


She went to Deal and SWW herself OOB. The projection here is crazy.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 12:47     Subject: Re:JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
Anonymous wrote:Half day Wednesdays would require my kids to be in transit back and forth to their school about as long as they are in school. Truancy will balloon. And once school feels optional, MORE truancy.


We learned during the pandemic that JLG does not care about your kids' needs. She's here for WTU's wants.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 12:46     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
Anonymous wrote:Calm down people. We have no idea what she is going to do. There is a lot of misinformation on this thread.



I think we have a pretty clear idea of what she's going to do. That's why people are worried. She has a lot of really bad ideas...
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 12:09     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
Calm down people. We have no idea what she is going to do. There is a lot of misinformation on this thread.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 11:13     Subject: Re:JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
Half day Wednesdays would require my kids to be in transit back and forth to their school about as long as they are in school. Truancy will balloon. And once school feels optional, MORE truancy.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 11:01     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So now we get to move on to what we want out of JLG.

I’m a DCPS parent but I think it’d be a good time for the charter sector to figure out what it wants to ask her for. Assurances? Something new?


Does she have kids in school? If not, it's quite likely she has a general sense that the charter schools are elitist and bad. She may have the idealized sense that everyone should "just go to the local school" and magically make it great. This may not be explicit, just vibes. Therefore, step one might be to make the strong case for how charters serve kids here and do not only serve the elite kids (obvious, but it's more a matter of changing the image of the charter schools).


The ironic thing is that the charter system is substantially blacker and poorer than DCPS. The only place in this city where DCPS is very popular is Ward 3.


+1. It's also the case that the lottery system provides a ton of preference data about what parents want and therefore what DCPS isn't doing well. Someone who wants schools to serve families better would look at that.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 10:21     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So now we get to move on to what we want out of JLG.

I’m a DCPS parent but I think it’d be a good time for the charter sector to figure out what it wants to ask her for. Assurances? Something new?


Does she have kids in school? If not, it's quite likely she has a general sense that the charter schools are elitist and bad. She may have the idealized sense that everyone should "just go to the local school" and magically make it great. This may not be explicit, just vibes. Therefore, step one might be to make the strong case for how charters serve kids here and do not only serve the elite kids (obvious, but it's more a matter of changing the image of the charter schools).


The ironic thing is that the charter system is substantially blacker and poorer than DCPS. The only place in this city where DCPS is very popular is Ward 3.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 10:15     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So now we get to move on to what we want out of JLG.

I’m a DCPS parent but I think it’d be a good time for the charter sector to figure out what it wants to ask her for. Assurances? Something new?


Does she have kids in school? If not, it's quite likely she has a general sense that the charter schools are elitist and bad. She may have the idealized sense that everyone should "just go to the local school" and magically make it great. This may not be explicit, just vibes. Therefore, step one might be to make the strong case for how charters serve kids here and do not only serve the elite kids (obvious, but it's more a matter of changing the image of the charter schools).


Your diagnosis is off.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 10:04     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
Anonymous wrote:So now we get to move on to what we want out of JLG.

I’m a DCPS parent but I think it’d be a good time for the charter sector to figure out what it wants to ask her for. Assurances? Something new?


Does she have kids in school? If not, it's quite likely she has a general sense that the charter schools are elitist and bad. She may have the idealized sense that everyone should "just go to the local school" and magically make it great. This may not be explicit, just vibes. Therefore, step one might be to make the strong case for how charters serve kids here and do not only serve the elite kids (obvious, but it's more a matter of changing the image of the charter schools).
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 09:56     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
The sky is falling!!!

Not.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 09:55     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
Anonymous wrote:So now we get to move on to what we want out of JLG.

I’m a DCPS parent but I think it’d be a good time for the charter sector to figure out what it wants to ask her for. Assurances? Something new?


Charters should ask not to get murdered (before they get murdered)
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 09:43     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
So now we get to move on to what we want out of JLG.

I’m a DCPS parent but I think it’d be a good time for the charter sector to figure out what it wants to ask her for. Assurances? Something new?
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 08:39     Subject: JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
The choice in this election was Corruption vs Communism.