“2. A reasonable person would find it hard to believe that the liberal residents of Georgetown are raciest ”
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Free speach:(I think you meant to use the name Free Speech)

All evidence demonstrates the Rhee’s adjustments to DCPS have improved the system overall thus far.
What evidence?
Like Sunday’s W Post:
Test Data Reveal Stubborn Racial Gaps”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/12/AR2009121201276.html
From the article:

The average scores of white D.C. fourth-graders over the past two years grew from 262 to 270 (on a scale of 500), but their African American peers’ rose just three points, from 209 to 212. The achievement gap actually grew between 2007 and 2009, from 53 to 58 points.
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African American progress in the eighth grade remained essentially flat, dipping a statistically insignificant one point, from 245 to 244.
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The picture across a six-year stretch isn’t more encouraging. The gap separating white and black fourth-graders in 2003, when the first NAEP in the District was given, was 60 scale points (262 to 202). Although the scores achieved by children in both groups have increased during this period, the difference has barely narrowed to 58.

2. A reasonable person would find it hard to believe that the liberal residents of Georgetown are raciest and want Hardy to change because they have reservations about their children interacting with children of different races based on the political leanings of Georgetown and attempts to increase diversity at private schools.

3. The DC Cas scores demonstrate that a significant portion of the students at Hardy are at basic or below basic levels in math and reading. This suggest that your reasoning is based on raw emotion rather than a careful analysis of relevant data. The fact the white students do better as a group indicates that Hardy does not do enough to support black, Latino, and asian students academically and the teachers should be helping students more rather than making determinations about which race is smarter or more qualified to help people of other races. The word some means at least one and is insufficient to describe overall trends.

4. It is disheartening that a teacher at a public school is as prejudiced against white males as you seem to be based on your post. Perhaps a neighborhood school in a predominantly white neighborhood is not the best fit for you in consideration of your obvious prejudice towards white students.

5. Evidence of money spent on an extra curricular activity does not prove a desire to have an academic program that is based on such activities that is why programs such as Fillmore are commonly called extra curricular as they are meant to enhance not replace or even improve upon traditional academic programs.

6. If Hardy is focused on academics then why are students permitted to skip a significant portion of traditional academic classes to focus on art based classes and programs? Also why are/were funds used to support arts for regular education students over providing grade and age level appropriate materials to students who are/were in special education programs? Such allowances seem to endorse arts over academics.

7. If Mr. Pope is a strong(this word seems to have little meaning in the manner you use it) leader than how do you account for his loss of his job at Hardy, his failure to adopt a plan to turn Hardy in to a charter school, and his inability to successfully convince feeder school(neighborhood school) parents of the value of Hardy’s current program? Perhaps by strong you mean stubborn and totalitarian?

8. Much of your post seems to be conclusory. In other words you are assuming a conclusion, that people who have white skin and wealth feel entitled (perhaps this magic combination of white skin and wealth explains Michael Jackson’s behavior after his skin bleaching procedures?) to remove black students from Hardy, without providing example of such prejudice. You then are attacking or endorsing the conclusions you assume. This is a major flaw in reasoning and you should be wary of saying such things as there is a very high probability that you are wrong given the lack of evidence you provide in support of such conclusions.

9. Your argument does not address the needs of neighborhood students. Do neighborhood residents have any rights in terms of controlling the type of public school their children are offered or should they accept a public school curriculum they deem inadequate because children from different neighborhoods are more entitled to public schools based on their race and economic status?

10. “Whats funny” is that a person who is so upset by what he/she perceives as racism is very quick to make assumptions about others based on nothing but their race. Perhaps you are so raciest and predisposed to seeing things in terms of race that you assume everyone is as inherently prejudiced as you are and that any time a group that is predominantly one race disagrees with a group that is predominantly another race that the only basis for their disagreement is race and all other issues are imaginary, irrelevant, or minor.

Free speach:(I think you meant to use the name Free Speech) All evidence demonstrates the Rhee’s adjustments to DCPS have improved the system overall thus far. Your feelings or your son’s love of his teachers is irrelevant in considering the overall quality of Hardy Middle School. It would be unwise for DC to remove Rhee with out giving her a fair amount of time to make changes and to realize the results of such changes. DC has a long history of replacing leaders based on changes without allowing for enough time to objectivly determine if such changes are successful. If this pattern of removing superintendents/chancellors continues DCPS will never see any improvements regardless of who is in charge. The only objective way to evaluate a school is through standardized test scores. Based on Hardy’s scores it should be clear why most Georgetown families lack confidence in Hardy’s ability to provide an education to their children. The residents of Georgetown along with citizens throughout DC do not consider above average scores for DC to be good enough for their children and indicative of a quality education. This is further evidenced by teachers who have middle school aged children that refuse to send their children to Hardy despite Pope’s offering of such opportunities.

It is very unfair and extremely hypocritical for you call me out for what you perceive as anger and then to call me out for identifying you as some kind of village idiot or mildly retarded person.

And then you’re back to Jeffro.
and go perform a series of impossibilities

And did you mean accusatory or conclusory?
By your standards, you must a product of Pope’s Hardy.

And again, you won.

It would be illegal for me to post such information about other people and I’m not going to explain why, but its safe to assume its the same reason why I use the name WOW. However a woman with the last name Henderson has made several public statements about Pope.

Perhaps you shouldn’t make assumptions about who I am or why I am so concerned about Pope being viewed as some kind of super principal. I am not a current/former parent and no longer reside in Georgetown.

It is very unfair and extremely hypocritical for you call me out for what you perceive as anger and then to call me out for identifying you as some kind of village idiot or mildly retarded person.
I am done responding to your conclusory remarks(to be considered an argument the things you assert would have to be based on valid points). Clearly I am not going to convince you of anything Jeffro. I suggest that you find a dark corner and go perform a series of impossibilities because you will no longer be able to get your jollies by provoking me.

One of those comments at the Post included this transcript from the audio tape posted above:

MAN: (Keenan Keller?):Okay, let me be clear, you had your staff misrepresent the position rather than say we can’t make an announcement right now.
RHEE: That’s absolutely our, our fault for not being clearer about the fact that there was an announcement .(forthcoming?)
MAN: This was also Kaya Henderson, your deputy who misrepresented your plans to the Washington area NAACP.
RHEE: Yes, That we wanted to make sure to make that in one specific meeting that we make the annoucement.
I don’t think the intention was to misled anyone.
We wanted to ensure that we make the announcement in the right way.

As I typed before, you sound very angry and defensive for someone who got their way. Pope’s leaving and you getting your gal.
Hallelujah, joy be Jesus.

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Now if too much trouble click on the following links to view Mr.Pope’s attempt to control the admissions process by clicking/copying into your browser the following links from Hardy’s website. You can also view this information by going to Hardy’s website and clicking on the tab for the application process.

http://www.hardyms.org/quicklinkfiles/6thGrade-ArtsProgramApplication08-09.pdf

http://www.hardyms.org/quicklinkfiles/7thand8thGrade-ArtsProgramApplication08-09.pdf

If you still think that Pope’s attempts to control the admissions process are not factual then I really don’t what to tell you Jeffro. Perhaps you should apply to 6th grade at Hardy? You have admitted that neighborhood parents are not happy in your posts. “Mrs. Rhee made a decision not based on data, as she claims she does, but on the whining of a few Key parents.” I would hope that you consider things you consider things you state are true to be facts or based on facts.

Maybe you could donate your time and help “whine” on behalf of the SE parents.
Or help with the “vocation ” programs you’ve suggested for them

You remind me of the parents at parochial elementary schools who would gather an hour before dismissal and gossip.

But you were right on one point:

Rhee should have at least been considerate enough to include the current Hardy community in the talks

Yeah, she should have.
But as her friend Wendy Kopp, or her damage control for Kevin Johnson or her myth of her “Baltimore Miracle”, it all show for Mrs. Rhee.
Give us your preditions for what the DC-CAS scores will be in 2011 and 2012, for all subgroups, post-Pope.