adventures in inner city education

Dedicated and over-educated teacher leaves the pampered comfort of a Stanford PhD program to teach at a small, stereotypically 'inner city' elementary school in Washington, DC. And blogs about it.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

A Shame

The latest update on my previous place of employment: They're closing the school. Enrollment has dropped severely during my former principal's reign of error, and the Washington Post recently reported that the school boasts a $600,000 budget deficit this year. So, on the 85th anniversary of the founding of the historically African American parish, the school will close, leaving one less educational option for families in DC's Anacostia neighborhood.

Don't even get me started on the failings of the archdiocese-led consortium that was supposed to 'save' the school from closing, but instead, allowed an admittedly incompetent administrator to keep her job and run the school into the ground...