Springboard Suspension

[Anonymous]

Not sure what school you are at, but certainly hasn’t stopped at ours. On top of that teachers have report cards, have to pack up rooms, host celebrations for families and children, have data analysis meetings. It is a busy week for them. All I am saying is we can say thank you to them for working 3 extra hours a day because of this Springboard mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers who already have so much to do on the last week of school are now being asked to cover aftercare on top of everything else. Thank your teachers this week everyone!

Well, it says "staff" which likely includes aides. And DCPS staff means people hired from downtown. So I doubt this burden is falling entirely on teachers. It isn't ideal but what can you do at this point?

[Anonymous]

Not much. We can be gracious and say thank you to teachers and any other staff working extra hours. I’m sure an iced coffee and a thank you will go a long way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not much. We can be gracious and say thank you to teachers and any other staff working extra hours. I’m sure an iced coffee and a thank you will go a long way.

You could also try, if at all possible, to pick your kids up a little earlier than usual this week.

[Anonymous]

I have found Springboard as an organization to be a disaster.

[Anonymous]

The incident was evidently between a CHML student(s) and a Springboard Staff member, but not a student who was enrolled in Springboard. DCPS is requiring an overview with Springboard, which I assume is why service is being suspended everywhere until its complete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The incident was evidently between a CHML student(s) and a Springboard Staff member, but not a student who was enrolled in Springboard. DCPS is requiring an overview with Springboard, which I assume is why service is being suspended everywhere until its complete.

What was the incident?

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to find more about this too. I'm hearing they may lose 50+ sites from this so it must be pretty serious. I wish we had more information.

[Anonymous]

I really liked the Springboard staff at my kids school the last couple of years. We even had one of the staff babysit for us a couple of times. Will they get paid this week?

[Anonymous]

Canceled at our charter. They could produce no proof of background checks. I am so angry. This private for profit out of state company making profit off of partnering with publicly funded schools not being overseen.

[Anonymous]

They are permanently fired from our school but we were already working on getting a new vendor bc Springboard is so meh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Canceled at our charter. They could produce no proof of background checks. I am so angry. This private for profit out of state company making profit off of partnering with publicly funded schools not being overseen.

WOW. Just WOW.

[Anonymous]

Canceled at our charter as well. The email we got indicated reports that Springboard has all of their staff members background checks but unable to produce records of them as required. This is so dishearteningthat it took an incident that involved the police for DCPS and the charter schools to take a look at this company that overcharges for the care their provide. I should note that not all Springboard staff have been bad--we have had some that we have loved but are thankful for our charter school teachers who have also been in the classroom or supporting the aftercare programming.

[Anonymous]

Wow so they said they did background checks but apparently did not?

[Anonymous]

Springboard frontline staff also disliked Springboard management.