Fear of Success

[Scarpia]

The D.C. school system has long been known as the worst in the US, perhaps the worst in the developed world.  I think you'd have to go to Afghanistan to find more ineffective schools.  With the election of Mayor Fenty and the appointment of Rhee as schools chancellor there were signs that the DC schools could actually be improved.  But the voters have spoken.  "We like it just as it is.  Kick out the arrogant bastards who think our children can actually learn."  I find it unbelievable and depressing.


Michelle Rhee resigning as D.C. schools chancellor

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee announced Wednesday that she is resigning at the end of this month, bringing an abrupt end to a tenure that drew national acclaim but that also became a central issue in an election that sent her patron, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, to defeat.

Rhee survived three contentious years that made her a superstar of the education reform movement and one of the longest-serving school leaders in the city in two decades. Student test scores rose, and the teachers union accepted a contract that gave the chancellor sweeping powers to fire the lowest-performing among them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/12/AR2010101205658.html

[Philoctetes]

That's really depressing.

[DavidW]

When politics and education collide everyone loses.