The Washington Teacher: No DC Middle School For You !

The Washington Teacher: No DC Middle School For You !:

No DC Middle School For You !

by Candi Peterson

This is an op-ed piece published in the N.Y. Times newspaper. It is a must read. Who better to tell the story of school reform than a DC middle-class parent who has lived the nightmare under the direction of education deformers Rhee, Fenty and now Henderson?


deformer: (n.) One who deforms.

December 4, 2011

Why School Choice Fails

By NATALIE HOPKINSON

Washington

"IF you want to see the direction that education reform is taking the country, pay a visit to my leafy, majority-black neighborhood in Washington. While we have lived in the same house since our 11-year-old son was born, he’s been assigned to three different elementary schools as one after the other has been