DCI Parent Petition

[Anonymous]

What exactly do you think needs to be investigated. It's hard to buy in to your version of events when no one can outline what the problems actually are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What exactly do you think needs to be investigated. It's hard to buy in to your version of events when no one can outline what the problems actually are.

It’s honestly striking that some people still refuse to acknowledge there’s a problem. The letter is detailed, and several commenters here have pointed to specific concerns, such as those involving his wife and key teaching positions he has pushed away or left unfilled. Even as an outsider with no stake in this, the issues come across as credible and clearly worth investigating.

[Anonymous]

Aside from firing a popular teacher, what are the issues? Give me your elevator pitch. I'm asking because the letters are not clear. It's really surprising to me that people feel so strongly to yell and interrupt on a call but can't articulate the issue for new families in an anonymous forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What exactly do you think needs to be investigated. It's hard to buy in to your version of events when no one can outline what the problems actually are.

It’s honestly striking that some people still refuse to acknowledge there’s a problem. The letter is detailed, and several commenters here have pointed to specific concerns, such as those involving his wife and key teaching positions he has pushed away or left unfilled. Even as an outsider with no stake in this, the issues come across as credible and clearly worth investigating.

I think it should be apparent by now that your bar for “detailed” is not the same as most people here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aside from firing a popular teacher, what are the issues? Give me your elevator pitch. I'm asking because the letters are not clear. It's really surprising to me that people feel so strongly to yell and interrupt on a call but can't articulate the issue for new families in an anonymous forum.

The mistake was letting Montessori parents in the club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aside from firing a popular teacher, what are the issues? Give me your elevator pitch. I'm asking because the letters are not clear. It's really surprising to me that people feel so strongly to yell and interrupt on a call but can't articulate the issue for new families in an anonymous forum.

This has been answered multiple times in this thread, but here it is one more time for anyone just joining.
The elevator pitch:
- 94% of voting staff, 175 people, submitted a formal no confidence letter to the board documenting five categories of serious failures
- 37 special education staff have left since 2023, affecting nearly 500 students with IEPs and 504s. The school may be out of legal compliance with federal special education law
- The ED received a $30,000 bonus while structuring aide pay in a way that left some of DCI’s lowest paid staff taking home less than last year, at a school posting multi-million dollar surpluses
- The ED hired his wife as a consultant. No public disclosure of that contract has been made, no board approval has been confirmed, and her background is in Achievement First, a no-excuses test prep network that is philosophically the opposite of IB
- The MYP Coordinator is gone with no succession plan, the DP Coordinator is being non-renewed over student and staff objection, and DCI has an IB re-evaluation in 27-28
- The board announced an investigation but left the subject of that investigation in charge of running his own community town halls while it proceeds

The letters are clear. They have been clear. The issues have been stated and restated multiple times in this thread. At some point the question isn’t whether the issues are articulated. It’s whether someone is willing to read them. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[Anonymous]

I'm another DCI parent. The session yesterday was NOT a listening session, it was about IB. It is true that originally we were supposed to have parent listening sessions, but they were cancelled--now it is pretty obvious why.

[Anonymous]

The board should have put Rosskamm on administrative leave and yesterday’s session should’ve been cancelled. It’s like trying to water your garden while your house is on fire.

[Anonymous]

Was is that hard to list bullets? There have been multiple requests for an explanation that have not been addressed until now.

I'm just a new parent to DCI trying to figure out what the hell is going on. These parents HAVE NOT been clear and it's been hard to figure out what is happening with all this noise and hysteria. The ED has never introduced himself to new families except to explain his health issues. Hard for new parents to pick up on any self-dealing when we dont know the players. Break it down for us.

Also-- Yes, the ED should not have been on last night. His appearance escalated things. But your letter just asked for a third party audit. Your letter didnt dictate the terms of that audit.

[Anonymous]

This sounds like the messy MV parents who tried to overthrow their school

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]Was is that hard to list bullets? There have been multiple requests for an explanation that have not been addressed until now.

I'm just a new parent to DCI trying to figure out what the hell is going on. These parents HAVE NOT been clear and it's been hard to figure out what is happening with all this noise and hysteria. The ED has never introduced himself to new families except to explain his health issues. Hard for new parents to pick up on any self-dealing when we dont know the players. Break it down for us.

Also-- Yes, the ED should not have been on last night. His appearance escalated things. But your letter just asked for a third party audit. Your letter didnt dictate the terms of that audit. [/quote]

It’s standard to disclose who’s in charge of an audit, what the scope of the audit is, and to put the person on administrative leave while they’re being investigated. It’s shady AF that the board didn’t do any of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aside from firing a popular teacher, what are the issues? Give me your elevator pitch. I'm asking because the letters are not clear. It's really surprising to me that people feel so strongly to yell and interrupt on a call but can't articulate the issue for new families in an anonymous forum.

This has been answered multiple times in this thread, but here it is one more time for anyone just joining.
The elevator pitch:
- 94% of voting staff, 175 people, submitted a formal no confidence letter to the board documenting five categories of serious failures
- 37 special education staff have left since 2023, affecting nearly 500 students with IEPs and 504s. The school may be out of legal compliance with federal special education law
- The ED received a $30,000 bonus while structuring aide pay in a way that left some of DCI’s lowest paid staff taking home less than last year, at a school posting multi-million dollar surpluses
- The ED hired his wife as a consultant. No public disclosure of that contract has been made, no board approval has been confirmed, and her background is in Achievement First, a no-excuses test prep network that is philosophically the opposite of IB
- The MYP Coordinator is gone with no succession plan, the DP Coordinator is being non-renewed over student and staff objection, and DCI has an IB re-evaluation in 27-28
- The board announced an investigation but left the subject of that investigation in charge of running his own community town halls while it proceeds

The letters are clear. They have been clear. The issues have been stated and restated multiple times in this thread. At some point the question isn’t whether the issues are articulated. It’s whether someone is willing to read them. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I’d add that Rosskamm is refusing to meet with students regarding their petition. That almost 800 students have signed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aside from firing a popular teacher, what are the issues? Give me your elevator pitch. I'm asking because the letters are not clear. It's really surprising to me that people feel so strongly to yell and interrupt on a call but can't articulate the issue for new families in an anonymous forum.

This has been answered multiple times in this thread, but here it is one more time for anyone just joining.
The elevator pitch:
- 94% of voting staff, 175 people, submitted a formal no confidence letter to the board documenting five categories of serious failures
- 37 special education staff have left since 2023, affecting nearly 500 students with IEPs and 504s. The school may be out of legal compliance with federal special education law
- The ED received a $30,000 bonus while structuring aide pay in a way that left some of DCI’s lowest paid staff taking home less than last year, at a school posting multi-million dollar surpluses
- The ED hired his wife as a consultant. No public disclosure of that contract has been made, no board approval has been confirmed, and her background is in Achievement First, a no-excuses test prep network that is philosophically the opposite of IB
- The MYP Coordinator is gone with no succession plan, the DP Coordinator is being non-renewed over student and staff objection, and DCI has an IB re-evaluation in 27-28
- The board announced an investigation but left the subject of that investigation in charge of running his own community town halls while it proceeds

The letters are clear. They have been clear. The issues have been stated and restated multiple times in this thread. At some point the question isn’t whether the issues are articulated. It’s whether someone is willing to read them. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We can provide a detailed letter, an elevator pitch, or repeat the concerns a thousand times with greater clarity and articulation, but none of it will matter if they remain in denial and refuse to be convinced that there is a problem.

[Anonymous]

Your problem is that you're treating fellow parents as adversaries. Do you treat everyone with thus much hostility? You assumed parents asking for an explanation are opposed to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your problem is that you're treating fellow parents as adversaries. Do you treat everyone with thus much hostility? You assumed parents asking for an explanation are opposed to you.

The problem isn’t asking for an explanation. It’s asking for it over and over and over again after it’s been provided multiple times and ways. Plenty of parents didn’t know what was happening and as soon as they read the staff letter they understood the gravity of the situation.