After gentrification, the unbelievable incompetence of Mayor Barry political hires in DCPS has been exposed to people qualified to judge bad teachers. The major problem in DCPS was not, as everyone expected, an incompetent central administration, but in fact a majority of employees in teaching positions who had no qualifications (either soft “personality” qualifications or hard certifications).

Michelle Rhee will need to fire, at a minimum, half of DCPS teachers. This is going to cause a huge problem, but it’s entirely necessary. At a school one of my kids attended double digits of teachers were fired for non-certification- some of whom were NEVER EVER certified.

My kid’s very first teacher was kicked out of the school system altogether and his secondary teacher (all DCPS elementary schools have two full-time teachers per class) was fired after failing Praxis for the second time.