{"id":13991,"date":"2009-08-28T07:46:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13991"},"modified":"2009-08-28T07:59:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T12:59:36","slug":"some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13991","title":{"rendered":"Some animals are more equal than others"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mayor of Washington, DC, Adrian Fenty, took offense at reporters asking questions about how the mayor’s children got access to one of the better schools according to the Washington Examiner<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Fenty, a resident of the Crestwood neighborhood, on Monday enrolled his 9-year-old sons, Matthew and Andrew, in the fourth grade at Lafayette Elementary School in Chevy Chase. The 615-student school is one of the most difficult to gain entry to for out-of-boundary parents, like the Fentys, most of whom must enter their children in a lottery and hope for one of the few available openings in each grade.<\/p>\n

But Fenty has steadfastly refused to say whether he went through the lottery process, or enrolled his boys through some other means. Chancellor Michelle Rhee, for example, has the authority to enroll a child in whatever school she pleases.<\/p>\n

“Please respect that my kids’ private lives have to be respected,” Fenty told reporters…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, what does political maneuvering have to do with his kids’ “private lives”? DC pays about $13,000\/year\/child and churns out morons. Although this mayor has taken steps to reform education in the district, that still doesn’t make it right that he can pick and choose where his children get educated while thousands of others are mired in an unproductive and corrupt education system. <\/p>\n

Lafayette last school year made Adequate Yearly Progress, a standard under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, in reading, math and attendance. Fenty’s neighborhood school is West Elementary, a school formally “in need of improvement” that did not meet AYP in reading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I commend him for being one of the few politicians who subject his children to the public school system in DC, but this is a bit of elitism. The mayor’s reaction to questions doesn’t help him much;<\/p>\n

Twice Fenty told the media to “stop,” at one point telling reporters, “I’d like for you to excuse me to leave.”<\/p>\n

“Please just stop asking me these questions,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rest of us who want to put our kids in different schools have to move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mayor of Washington, DC, Adrian Fenty, took offense at reporters asking questions about how the … Some animals are more equal than others<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}