The leader of a local college has dressed down the D.C. Public Schools for its woeful treatment of young professionals who left promising careers to teach District students. Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity University, posted a scathing rebuke Monday on her school-sponsored blog, tearing into DCPS for its “demeaning” treatment of D.C. Teaching Fellows. Dozens of fellows, who contractually agreed to teach for two years in the D.C. public schools in return for an all-expenses-paid master’s degree, are taking classes at the Northeast D.C. school.

One of those teachers wrote an extensive piece for Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine, describing an appalling lack of support from the school system.