D.C. public school teachers begin orientation ahead of start of academic year
Posted by | Posted on 08-08-2010
Day One for the District’s 400 or so newest public school teachers began in a not-quite-air-conditioned auditorium Wednesday with a welcoming gift from Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee: her pity.
“I know what you are about to go through, and I feel really, really bad for you,” Rhee said somewhat tongue in cheek. Her audience was dominated by faces so improbably young they looked as if they should be out buying binders and calculators.
Rhee also struck other more inspirational themes as she began a three-day orientation at the Columbia Heights Education Campus for the corps of new teachers, who are preparing for school to open Aug. 23.