Look... give me a RESOLUTION to the increasing MADNESS and I will shutup!

Also, again... let me introduce myself...

I am no newbie to DCPS.
I do think I have a valid point... and its not ment to please, but raise wonder...

I am a 31 year old mother of 3 in DCPS and I am an ECE teacher in a NW school.

I have a mother who was a teacher for 35 + years in DCPS and she was at more than 10 schools - all elelmentary. 5 of her DCPS years were served as a Content Specialist. She wrote the first set of standards MANDATORILY USED in schools for the Music departments ALL GRADES!

My father was a DCPD Officer Friendly in 8 different schools on all levels from PS-12th grade levels.

I attended 4 DCPS schools and I have worked at 8 different schools (2 were summer school sites)-PS-12 grade levels. I have also worked at 825 as an admin asst. during the summer of my second year of being a teacher.

My husband worked at 3 schools elem and jhs levels. He attended 3.

My son is in daycare and will be in DCPS next year, and my daughters (who have always attended different schools) have been in a total of 4different DCPS schools.

Not to mention the friends and family I have working in DCPS as well.

At this point in time folks, I have been in almost over 50 different school buildings witnessing all types of different groups of teachers and administrators. It was on both ends on why the children are failing....and EVERYTIME I witnessed it it was because of a Principal who lacked their Administrator skills or a teacher that lacked Educator skills... not to mention People or "Little People" skills.

I DO NOT AGREE that all responsibility should be left on the Principals... BUT something has to be done!!!

SOMETHING!!!

Me, my mom, my dad, my husband ALL want better than we had, which was not as bad as now I don't think... in our years attending and working for DCPS before the late 90's to the present...

We want this for my daughters and son... if I could afford private... I would! That's where my parents sent me the first half of grade school... on a teacher and police salary...but not anymore... not with 3 kids either...

If you can relate...think about it, if not... don't bother...please and thank you!

Excuse me for being so passionate for my own kids and other children as well...

The End

Let's talk answers!! What do you really want from Rhee?

As I read these other blogs and they are flooding with teacher vs. teachers vs. Ms. Rhee vs. teachers vs. students vs. parents vs. the media... WE just look so pathetic, uncaring, and unorganized!!!

Can we get some answers... results... instead of shooting down the boss... support her with your ideas...

Blaming is easy... resolving is what makes hard work!!!

Obama Wins! Change in the Economy and EDUCATION?

Am I dreaming? Will I get a chance to buy a house and afford to live maybe month to month rather check to check... just a little push! Can I work on bettering my career...or deciding like dcteacherchic.blogspot.com my friend Chic... just to leave the system for good?

Changes will come... he promises, and inside me I know.

I am a GREAT teacher! And person...even better. But I want better still for not just me, but my future...which includes many others...

If WE get better in ourselves than all others will follow suit...close behind...

Yes we did! And yes we can continue on...

Obama mentioned us in the last debate tonight!!!

WOW! He said Rhee is excellent and that we are suffering... this hit home and I was definitely moved... I see a better future made possible by both him and Rhee!

D-C-P-S come on ya'll we are the BEST! D-C-P-S! The best in all the U.-S.!

Teachers for Obama!!! Mamas for Obama! Obama 08! 09! to 12! to 2016!

WTF Rhee??? I liked Dr. BenZion!

My daughters principal got fired this weekend! WTF? I am talking as a parent now...

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1008/561119_video.html?ref=newsstory

I am heated, but can't speak as a teacher now because as a teacher, I am also trying to keep my job!

I am done...DCPS!!!

Let me calm down before I loose my job for sepaking out on a blog!

Is my career coming to an end???

You know honestly.. I never wanted to become a teacher...

No one ever thought I'd be a good mommy...

I think I got lost in he prejudice atmosphere of the private schools my mother and father sent me to 1st-8th then in public school for a taste of 6 months, a shooting in 91 and the death of a fellow classmate from Langley JHS, sent me back to Private school in 9th grade and then back to finish in public the following 3 years after...

By then...the rebel/angry/scarred/motivated me, developed a positive image at Ellington SHS but lost it in the midst of trying to fit in with two worlds... peers and passion...

But being taught that school is EVERYTHING by my mother, a veteran DCPS teacher of 35+ years and my grandmother an FCPS vet of 30+ years...and my Vietnam vet and police officer father.. I came from a pretty heavy deal background...

My passion for myself..and my experiences...and my background... excited me more into trying to get my peers to... see what I see... and that created a catastrophe on one end...and a beautiful beginning on another...

Life kicks ass...

but it kicked me into k.eeping i.t s.imple s.tupid and kissing passion goodbye and reality set in...

I got pregnant... wanted a better life for my daughter before I even met her... and from what could I base my future on...my past...mom was a teacher... the best thing for me to do and know is to become one too...I go broke on trying to provide her and the others with the best of the best of everything and every opportunity... wouldn't you?

So, here I am... 3 kids later...8 years teaching... lifetime of struggle (maybe not)... and even though I love kids and have changed may lives... I also have my own to worry about... and without them.. there would have never been a career in teaching, it wasn't my passion...however, I work it well...

In a nutshell... I am a mom first, I need to take care of mine and provide more than what I was given...in this day and time...impossible? No, but in teaching... as of Oct 1st...that answer took a turn for nowhere...

Money isn't everything, but it keeps my own children taken care of, and me alive to live averagely...along with my spirit, never ending passion for WRITING (who knew!), and my kids future endeavors...then yours!

Hope I'm not being too selfish... but oh I am! Wouldn't you be...?

I have a Plan B too...

please check my other blog: mommilanandjr.blogspot.com for info on that... need an effective Plan B and proof that it works... even if you are not ready to quit teaching or yoru day job yet... check this out!

Thanks for reading...

Judgement Day coming soon...its' what you make it!

Colleagues,

There comes a time when you have to let your heart follow you. Benefit yourself and your students. Bring unity by doing something you have never done before...make his -and "herstory"!!! Be one of the firsts... be part of a new culture of students and parents... just work hard and results will come!!!

All of my testimonies above are futuristic facts if we vote YES on the red or green proposal by Michelle Rhee.

This is the last 2 days...THIS TUESDAY, SPETEMBER 23RD AT MCKINLEY TECH IN NE WASH DC...bring a colleague, be there at 5PM.. I may be late due to aftercare, but I will be there!!!

Listen to everything, ask questions...then vote yes!!!!

Let's get this party started!!! PLEASE DON'T HOLD US BACK!!!