A blog designed to facilitate communication about education, teaching, schools, labor issues, social justice, politics and ordinary life. Statements or expressions of opinions herein 'do not' represent the views or official positions of DCPS, American Federation of Teachers, Washington Teachers' Union or its members. Views are my own. Anyone who claims otherwise is violating the spirit and purpose of this blog.
Now you see what the "grasshopper-Fenty" and the "Gecko-Rhee" has gotten us into. The whole nation now knows that DCPS and the DC Government are led by two inexperienced babies. The WaPo "twins" can not even recognize the effects of a blizzard. These two babies had our children walking in a five foot high blizzard to get to the 'soup-kitchen' style schools, because, the two babies think that our children's parents can not feed them. The clock is a ticking for Fenty and Rhee.
Candi, how can you buy into this racist crap? I wanted to slap Chris Matthews right across his little smug face. This storm was not just a few inches - it was two blizzards back to back! DC has NEVER had this much snow. I firmly believe our city employees are doing their very best with the resources we have.
What Chris Matthews declines to add is that the white suburbs actually did much WORSE in this storm than DC did.
I'm sorry, I am a proud DC resident, and this clip has me enraged.
Actually I am not buying into anything. I am not a fan of Chris Matthews btw but I think we need to hear what others are saying. I think that Harry Thomas and Jerry Phillips made some good points on this clip.
Late announcements of school and government closings is irresponsible behavior. Using these storms as a platform to promote themselves is ridiculous. Opinions of Fenty and Rhee have already been formed, what they assume are hard decisions and the right call doesn't improve peoples perception of them.
Why didn't the mayor declare a state of emergency over the week so that the city could request assistance from the national guard as well as the funding for cleanup? If he had, maybe the governments (DC and federal) as well as the schools could have opened on Monday as he promised.
This is the nations capital. Anytime Congress leaves town not to be caught in the storms (Dec. 2009 was a good indicator that things were not going to go well) says nothing positive about the city.
Hopefully Fenty and Rhee will make better decisions as well as provide adequate notifications of closures (11:09 p.m. is crazy) prior/during the next severe weather event. Hopefully, but I doubt it.
I'm hearing from various teacher friends in other schools that they didn't have PD today, as the coaches didn't come. That's what happened at my school too. Any comments?
I have a different view of this situation. I just spent a week on the west coast and they were covering the DC storm from an unbiased view, well at least more unbiased than what we get here. I am not a Chris Matthews fan, however the talk of the country was the decision to open local government inspite of Federal governemnt making a different decision. Also, a lot of the critics want to know why there was no state of emergency called? I am the last person to defend Fenty and I was kinda on his side in this mess until I realized that his arrogance once again made things worse. What was so wrong with Fenty saying "hey this is more snow then we have ever had to deal with we need help." Maryland and Virginia did last week and they have more resources. Fenty once again shows that he is so arrogant that he will put any one at risk even the people he is sworn to protect.
Just to add one more point. I had a layover in Chicago and I was showing people the pictures of the snow and even natives of Chicago were shocked!! One even stated that she had never seen that much snow at one time....
7 comments:
Now you see what the "grasshopper-Fenty" and the "Gecko-Rhee" has gotten us into. The whole nation now knows that DCPS and the DC Government are led by two inexperienced babies. The WaPo "twins" can not even recognize the effects of a blizzard. These two babies had our children walking in a five foot high blizzard to get to the 'soup-kitchen' style schools, because, the two babies think that our children's parents can not feed them. The clock is a ticking for Fenty and Rhee.
Candi, how can you buy into this racist crap? I wanted to slap Chris Matthews right across his little smug face. This storm was not just a few inches - it was two blizzards back to back! DC has NEVER had this much snow. I firmly believe our city employees are doing their very best with the resources we have.
What Chris Matthews declines to add is that the white suburbs actually did much WORSE in this storm than DC did.
I'm sorry, I am a proud DC resident, and this clip has me enraged.
Actually I am not buying into anything. I am not a fan of Chris Matthews btw but I think we need to hear what others are saying. I think that Harry Thomas and Jerry Phillips made some good points on this clip.
Late announcements of school and government closings is irresponsible behavior. Using these storms as a platform to promote themselves is ridiculous. Opinions of Fenty and Rhee have already been formed, what they assume are hard decisions and the right call doesn't improve peoples perception of them.
Why didn't the mayor declare a state of emergency over the week so that the city could request assistance from the national guard as well as the funding for cleanup? If he had, maybe the governments (DC and federal) as well as the schools could have opened on Monday as he promised.
This is the nations capital. Anytime Congress leaves town not to be caught in the storms (Dec. 2009 was a good indicator that things were not going to go well) says nothing positive about the city.
Hopefully Fenty and Rhee will make better decisions as well as provide adequate notifications of closures (11:09 p.m. is crazy) prior/during the next severe weather event. Hopefully, but I doubt it.
I'm hearing from various teacher friends in other schools that they didn't have PD today, as the coaches didn't come. That's what happened at my school too. Any comments?
I have a different view of this situation. I just spent a week on the west coast and they were covering the DC storm from an unbiased view, well at least more unbiased than what we get here. I am not a Chris Matthews fan, however the talk of the country was the decision to open local government inspite of Federal governemnt making a different decision. Also, a lot of the critics want to know why there was no state of emergency called? I am the last person to defend Fenty and I was kinda on his side in this mess until I realized that his arrogance once again made things worse. What was so wrong with Fenty saying "hey this is more snow then we have ever had to deal with we need help." Maryland and Virginia did last week and they have more resources. Fenty once again shows that he is so arrogant that he will put any one at risk even the people he is sworn to protect.
Just to add one more point. I had a layover in Chicago and I was showing people the pictures of the snow and even natives of Chicago were shocked!! One even stated that she had never seen that much snow at one time....
Post a Comment