Anonymous wrote:Dear any actual Hardy teachers on this thread:

My DD has had nearly all good and some really excellent, caring teachers at Hardy.

She also experienced being significantly assaulted at school. Mr Johnson pretended to care. And discussed the follow up actions with us. But actually did nothing. Not even the basic legal and administrative rules for what he was supposed to do. So imagine you trust the administrator to just deal with a situation with basic appropriateness and the find out they didn’t even do the lowest level of what is required. And then didn’t respond to any follow up at all. And your only options are to change schools or hire lawyers - and to figure out how to help your child. Is responding to sexual assault helicoptering?

The principal had a continued pattern of behavior of just doing nothing. The football team, the locked bathrooms, the continuing fights (which are all posted on social media), the faking the scores and information about the school that takes away YOUR resources as teachers. It was a blatant and documented pattern of instances of faking or not doing the required reporting. It was all enough for DCPS to take action. So they clearly got this wasn’t just “Karening” parents.

I don’t think this is a person or situation you want to defend or stand for? You deserve better. And do the students.

Anonymous wrote:How are things now that he's gone? Any improvement?

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t it obvious Ferebee was ready to “remove” Johnson - which is saying a lot! - and told the parent leaders what they needed as cover to do it?

Anonymous wrote:Ok, but you can’t say it’s social media because then it makes parents responsible. So it has to be covid… and those masks… and mostly those terrible teachers

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the PE/Locker issue again. So the boys got to go to PE for 2 weeks but the girls did not? Why was that?

I'd also like to go back to this. Circumstances aside, parents really emailed the super about this? Just...wow.

How are your kids going to handle life? I ask in all seriousness, because this sounds detrimental to their development.

I think it's fair enough for parents being concerned about a dismissive, sexist teacher declining to teach their DDs a class he gets paid to teach and that the law requires them to take.

I would be more worried about the life skills of employees who are outraged at the 'customers' because the upper management dismissed a different employee.

There isn't a dismissive, sexist teacher declining to teach children at Hardy. This toxic thought pattern is why no one wants to work at Hardy anymore.

Many of these posts read like an orchestrated campaign to intimidate parents into biting their tongue when they should be holding their school administrators and teachers to account for their abysmal performance. Spare us the “I’ll take my ball and go home” crap. Anyone who by this point still claims they don’t understand why the PTO at al. did what they did doesn’t seem to much interest in the quality of middle school education in this town.

We're now at the point where parents believe there is a coordinated campaign bc they just can't believe others think differently. And then to end it with 'anyone who disagrees with us surely doesn't care about children'

You are perfectly free to disagree with the action. But threatening to quit because parents requested more competent school administration after all that has happened at Hardy this year? Please.

DP. I hate to connect this to covid school closures because people had a range of reasonable reactions and situations to that. But NOBODY who was watching the covid closure rhetoric unfold should be surprised for a second that there is a set of teachers/unions that is outright hostile to any intervention by parents.

We are now reaping the consequences of keeping DC public schools shuttered for a good year longer than the science said they should be. I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for the WTU to apologize to us all for that.

There are major behaviors in schools across the county including ones that open August 2020. This isn’t just a DC thing. I really think it’s a social media thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the PE/Locker issue again. So the boys got to go to PE for 2 weeks but the girls did not? Why was that?

I'd also like to go back to this. Circumstances aside, parents really emailed the super about this? Just...wow.

How are your kids going to handle life? I ask in all seriousness, because this sounds detrimental to their development.

I think it's fair enough for parents being concerned about a dismissive, sexist teacher declining to teach their DDs a class he gets paid to teach and that the law requires them to take.

I would be more worried about the life skills of employees who are outraged at the 'customers' because the upper management dismissed a different employee.

There isn't a dismissive, sexist teacher declining to teach children at Hardy. This toxic thought pattern is why no one wants to work at Hardy anymore.

Many of these posts read like an orchestrated campaign to intimidate parents into biting their tongue when they should be holding their school administrators and teachers to account for their abysmal performance. Spare us the “I’ll take my ball and go home” crap. Anyone who by this point still claims they don’t understand why the PTO at al. did what they did doesn’t seem to much interest in the quality of middle school education in this town.

The Hardy teachers *shouid* leave! Go to schools where the parents and students don’t care as much about education, because then what they’re currently doing will be sufficient. It’s time to clean house.

Which schools are those? Presumably any school your fantastic racist self isn't gracing?

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t it obvious Ferebee was ready to “remove” Johnson - which is saying a lot! - and told the parent leaders what they needed as cover to do it?

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the PE/Locker issue again. So the boys got to go to PE for 2 weeks but the girls did not? Why was that?

I'd also like to go back to this. Circumstances aside, parents really emailed the super about this? Just...wow.

How are your kids going to handle life? I ask in all seriousness, because this sounds detrimental to their development.

I think it's fair enough for parents being concerned about a dismissive, sexist teacher declining to teach their DDs a class he gets paid to teach and that the law requires them to take.

I would be more worried about the life skills of employees who are outraged at the 'customers' because the upper management dismissed a different employee.

There isn't a dismissive, sexist teacher declining to teach children at Hardy. This toxic thought pattern is why no one wants to work at Hardy anymore.

Many of these posts read like an orchestrated campaign to intimidate parents into biting their tongue when they should be holding their school administrators and teachers to account for their abysmal performance. Spare us the “I’ll take my ball and go home” crap. Anyone who by this point still claims they don’t understand why the PTO at al. did what they did doesn’t seem to much interest in the quality of middle school education in this town.

We're now at the point where parents believe there is a coordinated campaign bc they just can't believe others think differently. And then to end it with 'anyone who disagrees with us surely doesn't care about children'

You are perfectly free to disagree with the action. But threatening to quit because parents requested more competent school administration after all that has happened at Hardy this year? Please.

DP. I hate to connect this to covid school closures because people had a range of reasonable reactions and situations to that. But NOBODY who was watching the covid closure rhetoric unfold should be surprised for a second that there is a set of teachers/unions that is outright hostile to any intervention by parents.

We are now reaping the consequences of keeping DC public schools shuttered for a good year longer than the science said they should be. I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for the WTU to apologize to us all for that.

There are major behaviors in schools across the county including ones that open August 2020. This isn’t just a DC thing. I really think it’s a social media thing.