chelita

If Gray can turn people out, he could win this. The frustration and dissatisfaction against Fenty among mostly black voters is palpable. If Gray unseats Fenty, he'll take Michelle Rhee with him, much ...

About Rhee and her kids at Oyster, when their neighborhood school would be Brightwood: Rhee's ex lives in the Oyster boundaries. So her 2 girls got into Oyster through their father and didn't have to ...

Matthew went to West for Pre-K then left. Not because of the school, but to join his twin brother at the early childhood charter or private school he attended. What's wrong with West? True, it's not a...

I can't believe that DCPS is saying that a professional developer (PD) has minimal contact with students. That's like saying they work in some administrative office and not in a school. Granted, he is...

Unfortunately, that's not true because all the kids lost to DCPS are in charter schools for the most part and they're free. Rhee wants to reform the public school system to stop this hemmoraging and m...

I assume Duncan will move to NW, be it Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, AU Park or any of the other mostly white neighborhoods where high ranking government official live, if they live in DC. The neighbor...

Or not so young......

Uh, whiteboards? Most DCPS classrooms still have blackboards and use chalk....

Good points as always, Neener about DCPS teachers, and you know I am one (but I was not an ed major, but did get certified to teach of course). A parent kept out of a kindergarten class? That's crazy!...

It's incredible, but when I, a DCPS teacher, read that there are schools with 36% advanced, I think, wow, that's great!! Until I realize that in MD and VA, it's 77-79%. Working in DC really lowers one...

I have heard some of my more paranoid and conspiracy-believing DPCS teaching colleagues say that Rhee just wants to get rid of black teachers so that the white people can take over DC public schools. ...

Neener, I think you must have had a bad experience with a neighborhood public school (something tells me it's Bancroft). I assume you believed in the idea of a free, public education for your child, d...

I am a DCPS teacher with over 20 years experience and 2 master's plus 60 credits, which is equivalent to a PhD or EdD on the salary scale. I am familiar with what is on WaPo's Fixing Our Schools Sched...

Ohmygawsh!! Who should I side with? I went to both schools, though one of them for grad school. And love them both!!...

Believe me, this cursing at little children, babies really, is standard child rearing practice for a certain low-life segment of our urban population. I work in a school and hear this daily. At first ...