G.S. Ed Week post #1

In the September 22 issue I read the article about Michelle Rhee, current Chancellor of the District of Columbia schools. The article "Rhee Reflective In Aftershock of D.C. Primary", conveys her concern over the lost election of her boss, Mayor Adrian Fenty. Fenty and Rhee have spent 3.5 years overhauling the District of Columbia's schools. Rhee and Fenty have been criticized for their "hard-charging pace of change" but Rhee said that she didn't think "waiting one more day knowing that another D.C. child was not getting the education they deserve was worth slowing the pace". One of the comments made in the article annoyed me because of the lack of thought process it must have took...which is... "a public poll was done over the past year and voters liked the many improvements to the schools, but not the leaders who brought about the changes". I truly can't comprehend that if the public thinks the process is working, that why does it matter if you "LIKE" the leader? Its not about you, its about your childs education right? Rhee is not afraid that she might lose her job or even that she will stay if given the chance, but that the new Mayor Vincent C. Gray will undermine all that she and Fenty have accomplished, and that she said would be "devastating for the schoolchildren of Washington, D.C.