Few people inside Hardy Middle School on Friday evening believed D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s assertion she was removing award-winning principal Patrick Pope so he could create a citywide performing arts middle school. Crazy mad, folks kept checking each other’s foreheads to see if “stupid” was written there.

Rhee’s spin was illogical. It also prevented a candid discussion about the complexities of education reform.

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