Reply #208: Everyone knew Rhee was going to do mass firings before IMPACT even appeared

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That was part of what sold the city on her.

IMPACT is a red herring for both sides; she needs an excuse to clear out the "political appointee" teachers from the 80s and 90s, when DCPS was viewed as a jobs program for Southeast.


Since teachers are not the sole factor influencing test scores, using those test scores as an evaluation tool is corrupt.

You're jumping from "unfair" to "corrupt". That's a big jump.

DCPS students have something like 8% at-grade literacy and 4% at-grade numeracy, while 90% of DCPS teachers up until 3 years ago were evaluated as "very good" or "excellent". I am well aware of how many factors outside of the teachers' control influence the "performance" of students (and we're way too performance-happy with students as it is). But come on... 90%, year after year, while dropout rates increase (one of the only systems in the nation in which dropout rates have gone steadily up for the past 20 years) and every single measure of student achievement goes down (again, in most systems there has been gradual upward movement for 20 years)? Rhee is nuking the system because the teachers and administrators have refused to implement any realistic evaluation system and people are extremely pissed and want blood.