Condi Rice: Rhee Departure 'Sad Day' for Schoolchildren

Newsmax ^ | 10/13/10

[truthandlife]

[Hojczyk]

Keeping BLACKS on the plantation....

[HOYA97]

Having voluntered my time to some DC Schools, I can tell you that they are really bad. The schools were falling apart and most teachers just did not care. I am not familiar with Rhee but anyone who is willing to shake things up there I would support.

[BenLurkin]

Keeping the public schools in chaos has worked well for the ‘Rats for decades. They aren't about to let anything stop it now.

[hinckley buzzard]

I recall an interview with this woman shortly after she assumed office. She admitted with disgust that when she took over, no one could even tell her how many employees the system had. Grotesque illustration of metastasized unionism.

She wanted to clean up the mess and haul out the trash. Naturally the trash fought back and apparently, have won.

[blueplum]

To avoid reducing graduation rates, Rhee laid off 388 school system employees -- including 229 teachers.

...and, student test scores improved. Of course the unions can't stand her.

[djf]

The simple fact that she has been as successful as she was, and the fact that the unions oppose her, prove that the unions no matter what they blather about don’t give a damn about true education.

[rahbert]

Nice witch shoes...

[PGR88]

In the event of an all-out nuclear war, the only survivors to emerge will be cockroaches and the teachers’ unions.

[Jolla]

She was on PBS Newshour a couple of times and obviously excellent for the job, she had to go, the unions would have nothing to do with raises based on merit.

[griswold3]

Don’t let anyone try to convince you that the Dems are proponents of ‘education’.
This is further proof that they practice ‘indoctrination’.

[truthandlife]

Naturally the trash fought back and apparently, have won.

No, not necessarily. Her policies are still in place and that is why the teacher unions are so mad. She has done her job there. She will go onto bigger things and make a big impact on a national scale on student's educations. The teacher unions should be very afraid in the future....

[truthandlife]

If you haven't seen the movie Waiting for "Superman", go see it! It started playing in select theaters on October 1st. A must see and Rhee is in it.

[databoss]

Disband teacher unions!

[Braak]

This is typical, sadly. Old time DC sees government, especially the school system as a "jobs" program for the unemployable. Fenty didn't subscribe to this patronage system, and what was more, he didn't bother to appeal to it. Rhee was the highest profile example of people he brought in to do something about it.

Needless to say, the old guard in DC (re: People who thought Marion Barry was a good guy), backed Grey and the new incoming Chancellor, Kaya Henderson, is liked by the usual suspects, that being the unions, and the former members of the school board. Also, race, I hate to say it, was a factor. Many in the old guard weren't happy Fenty chose a lot of Whites and Asians to run things...they felt they were losing their "chocolate city". I've seen a lot of writing to that effect on local blogs.

Sadly, the "joke" will be on the children of DC. It will also be on DC as a whole, as the folks that moved into DC on faith that a corner had been turned? They're gonna leave.

[Carley]

Was it just two weeks ago that Obamao took a slam at the D.C. schools. Not good enough for his daughters.
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This was an attack on Fenty and Rhee.

[spodefly]

Her reforms helped boost students' test scores, and narrowed the gap between white and African-American students.

Can't have that. An entire race of perpetual victims is essential to collectivist/progressive goals. If public schools start to raise everyone up to a certain standard as opposed to tearing them all down to the lowest common denominator, "progressivism" fails.

[RightOnTheBorder]

This was just the other shoe dropping after the rat scum did away with the charter schools in DC.

[truthandlife]

Good story on what she did. This is a CBS News story back in 2008 ( D.C. Schools Face Overhaul)