DCI Parent Petition

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All this brouhaha because the ED is trying to make DCI's reality match DCI boosters' fantasy of a high-performing HS with a good IB program

And because there is a group of staff and parents that have organized and keep pressuring others to write emails and get involved. This is a well organized campaign, with templates, talking points, etc that keep pushing their version of reality while the school is doing their investigation.

Thank you for noticing <3! Yes, we are organized. And yes, we have templates and talking points and so much evidence.

And we are not stopping until there is real accountability. Not a managed process or conflicted investigation. Rosskamm and Pardo (and the rest of their cronies) need to go and we will make sure it happens.

Your goal is to get all admin staff fired?

I said their cronies. Which fortunately is not all the staff.

Who are the "cronies"?

All the people Pardo installed so she could TenSquare DCI.

Much like they timecubed LAMB eh. (You sound like a crazy person, no one knows what tensquare is, and if they do they mostly think it’s a good thing)

This just seems like a lot of young naive staff and parents who are facing accountability and performance management for the first time in their lives.

DCI more than anything needs better IB test scores. Point blank. The current staff aren’t delivering them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All this brouhaha because the ED is trying to make DCI's reality match DCI boosters' fantasy of a high-performing HS with a good IB program

And because there is a group of staff and parents that have organized and keep pressuring others to write emails and get involved. This is a well organized campaign, with templates, talking points, etc that keep pushing their version of reality while the school is doing their investigation.

Thank you for noticing <3! Yes, we are organized. And yes, we have templates and talking points and so much evidence.

And we are not stopping until there is real accountability. Not a managed process or conflicted investigation. Rosskamm and Pardo (and the rest of their cronies) need to go and we will make sure it happens.

Your goal is to get all admin staff fired?

I said their cronies. Which fortunately is not all the staff.

Who are the "cronies"?

All the people Pardo installed so she could TenSquare DCI.

Much like they timecubed LAMB eh. (You sound like a crazy person, no one knows what tensquare is, and if they do they mostly think it’s a good thing)

This just seems like a lot of young naive staff and parents who are facing accountability and performance management for the first time in their lives.

DCI more than anything needs better IB test scores. Point blank. The current staff aren’t delivering them.

Happy to explain to people what a boondoggle TenSquare is and how they pillage charter schools. Or folks could read this article and continue to lose respect for Pardo, Rosskamm, and others: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/185902/behind-the-consulting-firm-raking-in-millions-from-dc-charter-schools/

[Anonymous]

Any light on how the voluntary but secret vote was carried-out? Genuinely wondering.

I would think there’s a way to verify that such vote took place and who voted. If it was secret, how is it guaranteed that folks didnt vote more than once.

No horse in the game, no skin in the race, or or skin in the horse, etc. Just obsessed with accuracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any light on how the voluntary but secret vote was carried-out? Genuinely wondering.

I would think there’s a way to verify that such vote took place and who voted. If it was secret, how is it guaranteed that folks didnt vote more than once.

No horse in the game, no skin in the race, or or skin in the horse, etc. Just obsessed with accuracy.

Welcome back NHITG. It is extraordinary how much time you spend on DCI stuff without a vested interest. We’re working our butts off to get actual parents engaged and yet here you are.

The vote was conducted by the DCI Staff Union, which has established protocols for conducting secret ballot votes. These are the same protocols used in union elections across the country. Secret ballots are a cornerstone of labor organizing precisely because they protect workers from retaliation while ensuring integrity. The process is well documented in labor law and union practice.

The results were submitted in the formal letter to the board, signed by the union chapter chairperson, with specific participation numbers: 185 of 232 non-supervisory staff voted, 175 voted no confidence.

If the board had questions about the integrity of the vote they could have asked. But they didn’t. They launched an investigation instead which suggests they found the vote credible enough to respond to.

“Just obsessed with accuracy” ROFL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All this brouhaha because the ED is trying to make DCI's reality match DCI boosters' fantasy of a high-performing HS with a good IB program

And because there is a group of staff and parents that have organized and keep pressuring others to write emails and get involved. This is a well organized campaign, with templates, talking points, etc that keep pushing their version of reality while the school is doing their investigation.

Thank you for noticing <3! Yes, we are organized. And yes, we have templates and talking points and so much evidence.

And we are not stopping until there is real accountability. Not a managed process or conflicted investigation. Rosskamm and Pardo (and the rest of their cronies) need to go and we will make sure it happens.

Your goal is to get all admin staff fired?

I said their cronies. Which fortunately is not all the staff.

Who are the "cronies"?

All the people Pardo installed so she could TenSquare DCI.

Much like they timecubed LAMB eh. (You sound like a crazy person, no one knows what tensquare is, and if they do they mostly think it’s a good thing)

This just seems like a lot of young naive staff and parents who are facing accountability and performance management for the first time in their lives.

DCI more than anything needs better IB test scores. Point blank. The current staff aren’t delivering them.

Is the current ED doing a good job recruiting more seasoned educators with a solid plan for retention?

No one needs drama but most kids (even talented ones) can not effectively learn from online curriculum only.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All this brouhaha because the ED is trying to make DCI's reality match DCI boosters' fantasy of a high-performing HS with a good IB program

And because there is a group of staff and parents that have organized and keep pressuring others to write emails and get involved. This is a well organized campaign, with templates, talking points, etc that keep pushing their version of reality while the school is doing their investigation.

Thank you for noticing <3! Yes, we are organized. And yes, we have templates and talking points and so much evidence.

And we are not stopping until there is real accountability. Not a managed process or conflicted investigation. Rosskamm and Pardo (and the rest of their cronies) need to go and we will make sure it happens.

Your goal is to get all admin staff fired?

I said their cronies. Which fortunately is not all the staff.

Who are the "cronies"?

All the people Pardo installed so she could TenSquare DCI.

Much like they timecubed LAMB eh. (You sound like a crazy person, no one knows what tensquare is, and if they do they mostly think it’s a good thing)

This just seems like a lot of young naive staff and parents who are facing accountability and performance management for the first time in their lives.

DCI more than anything needs better IB test scores. Point blank. The current staff aren’t delivering them.

Happy to explain to people what a boondoggle TenSquare is and how they pillage charter schools. Or folks could read this article and continue to lose respect for Pardo, Rosskamm, and others: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/185902/behind-the-consulting-firm-raking-in-millions-from-dc-charter-schools/

Tensquared like most consulting groups lifts up the rug and shows you where the roaches are. Of COURSE the roaches don’t like it. And neither does the Washington city paper, which is basically the workers daily of dc.

The cold truth is that DCI’s staff really does need shaken up, and the staff are misaligned with the goals of the parents, the executive committee, and really the kids in the end. There are going to be a number of really hard reorgs at charter schools whose front line staff drank the equity kool aid. The parents are course correcting hard. If the staff win, you’re gonna get one of those “what happened to DCI” restrospectives in 5 years where enrollment is in the toilet because test scores are in the tank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any light on how the voluntary but secret vote was carried-out? Genuinely wondering.

I would think there’s a way to verify that such vote took place and who voted. If it was secret, how is it guaranteed that folks didnt vote more than once.

No horse in the game, no skin in the race, or or skin in the horse, etc. Just obsessed with accuracy.

Welcome back NHITG. It is extraordinary how much time you spend on DCI stuff without a vested interest. We’re working our butts off to get actual parents engaged and yet here you are.

The vote was conducted by the DCI Staff Union, which has established protocols for conducting secret ballot votes. These are the same protocols used in union elections across the country. Secret ballots are a cornerstone of labor organizing precisely because they protect workers from retaliation while ensuring integrity. The process is well documented in labor law and union practice.

The results were submitted in the formal letter to the board, signed by the union chapter chairperson, with specific participation numbers: 185 of 232 non-supervisory staff voted, 175 voted no confidence.

If the board had questions about the integrity of the vote they could have asked. But they didn’t. They launched an investigation instead which suggests they found the vote credible enough to respond to.

“Just obsessed with accuracy” ROFL

No horse in this here race, but DAYUM. Legit mic drop. PPP is a whiff of smoke.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All this brouhaha because the ED is trying to make DCI's reality match DCI boosters' fantasy of a high-performing HS with a good IB program

And because there is a group of staff and parents that have organized and keep pressuring others to write emails and get involved. This is a well organized campaign, with templates, talking points, etc that keep pushing their version of reality while the school is doing their investigation.

Thank you for noticing <3! Yes, we are organized. And yes, we have templates and talking points and so much evidence.

And we are not stopping until there is real accountability. Not a managed process or conflicted investigation. Rosskamm and Pardo (and the rest of their cronies) need to go and we will make sure it happens.

Your goal is to get all admin staff fired?

I said their cronies. Which fortunately is not all the staff.

Who are the "cronies"?

All the people Pardo installed so she could TenSquare DCI.

Much like they timecubed LAMB eh. (You sound like a crazy person, no one knows what tensquare is, and if they do they mostly think it’s a good thing)

This just seems like a lot of young naive staff and parents who are facing accountability and performance management for the first time in their lives.

DCI more than anything needs better IB test scores. Point blank. The current staff aren’t delivering them.

Happy to explain to people what a boondoggle TenSquare is and how they pillage charter schools. Or folks could read this article and continue to lose respect for Pardo, Rosskamm, and others: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/185902/behind-the-consulting-firm-raking-in-millions-from-dc-charter-schools/

Tensquared like most consulting groups lifts up the rug and shows you where the roaches are. Of COURSE the roaches don’t like it. And neither does the Washington city paper, which is basically the workers daily of dc.

The cold truth is that DCI’s staff really does need shaken up, and the staff are misaligned with the goals of the parents, the executive committee, and really the kids in the end. There are going to be a number of really hard reorgs at charter schools whose front line staff drank the equity kool aid. The parents are course correcting hard. If the staff win, you’re gonna get one of those “what happened to DCI” restrospectives in 5 years where enrollment is in the toilet because test scores are in the tank.

Ah so now we know what's really driving the opposition to the staff.

"The staff drank the equity kool aid." "Hard reorgs at charter schools." "Parents are course correcting hard." You're not a parent concerned about IB program integrity or test scores, you're waging an ideological campaign to reshape charter schools away from equity frameworks and framing DCI's staff as an obstacle to that project.

DCI was founded explicitly as a socially just, IB-for-all school. Its mission is written into its charter. Its member schools chose that mission. The staff who are being called 'roaches' are the people who built that mission and have been living it every day.

The Washington City Paper investigation documented that TenSquare left multiple schools worse than it found them, that scores dropped when they left, that their model had never been fully implemented anywhere, and that they operated through a web of undisclosed conflicts.

DCI was Tier 1 before Rosskamm. The staff built that and the people calling for accountability are trying to protect it.

[Anonymous]

Practically every school used to be Tier 1; not saying DCI wasn’t a strong school then, but being Tier 1 was not a meaningful indicator back then.

[Anonymous]

Anyone see the testimony in front of Chairman Mendelson the other day? He asked some very probing questions. Still wondering why the Board and especially the Board Chair are not facing up to the fact that the ED cannot come back from this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All this brouhaha because the ED is trying to make DCI's reality match DCI boosters' fantasy of a high-performing HS with a good IB program

And because there is a group of staff and parents that have organized and keep pressuring others to write emails and get involved. This is a well organized campaign, with templates, talking points, etc that keep pushing their version of reality while the school is doing their investigation.

Thank you for noticing <3! Yes, we are organized. And yes, we have templates and talking points and so much evidence.

And we are not stopping until there is real accountability. Not a managed process or conflicted investigation. Rosskamm and Pardo (and the rest of their cronies) need to go and we will make sure it happens.

Your goal is to get all admin staff fired?

I said their cronies. Which fortunately is not all the staff.

Who are the "cronies"?

All the people Pardo installed so she could TenSquare DCI.

Much like they timecubed LAMB eh. (You sound like a crazy person, no one knows what tensquare is, and if they do they mostly think it’s a good thing)

This just seems like a lot of young naive staff and parents who are facing accountability and performance management for the first time in their lives.

DCI more than anything needs better IB test scores. Point blank. The current staff aren’t delivering them.

Happy to explain to people what a boondoggle TenSquare is and how they pillage charter schools. Or folks could read this article and continue to lose respect for Pardo, Rosskamm, and others: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/185902/behind-the-consulting-firm-raking-in-millions-from-dc-charter-schools/

Tensquared like most consulting groups lifts up the rug and shows you where the roaches are. Of COURSE the roaches don’t like it. And neither does the Washington city paper, which is basically the workers daily of dc.

The cold truth is that DCI’s staff really does need shaken up, and the staff are misaligned with the goals of the parents, the executive committee, and really the kids in the end. There are going to be a number of really hard reorgs at charter schools whose front line staff drank the equity kool aid. The parents are course correcting hard. If the staff win, you’re gonna get one of those “what happened to DCI” restrospectives in 5 years where enrollment is in the toilet because test scores are in the tank.

Ah so now we know what's really driving the opposition to the staff.

"The staff drank the equity kool aid." "Hard reorgs at charter schools." "Parents are course correcting hard." You're not a parent concerned about IB program integrity or test scores, you're waging an ideological campaign to reshape charter schools away from equity frameworks and framing DCI's staff as an obstacle to that project.

DCI was founded explicitly as a socially just, IB-for-all school. Its mission is written into its charter. Its member schools chose that mission. The staff who are being called 'roaches' are the people who built that mission and have been living it every day.

The Washington City Paper investigation documented that TenSquare left multiple schools worse than it found them, that scores dropped when they left, that their model had never been fully implemented anywhere, and that they operated through a web of undisclosed conflicts.

DCI was Tier 1 before Rosskamm. The staff built that and the people calling for accountability are trying to protect it.

Every parent had been so burned by “equity frameworks” at this point we’re just done. Anyone using the term thinks they can fix things that no school can fix. It’s a decadent, failed ideology and should be cast on the scrap heap of pedagogical philosophy.

The term needs to be retired, it’s just a signal that the people using it want less to elevate kids than drag the good performers down. If teachers want to do that, the admin really should try to get rid of them. If anything, the equity push has standardized low expectations and dragged the middle down.

[Anonymous]

Parents are tired of teachers who want to sacrifice their kids on the altar of social justice, and the teachers who believe that honestly. Let alone teachers who want to use it as a pretext to avoid accountability

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All this brouhaha because the ED is trying to make DCI's reality match DCI boosters' fantasy of a high-performing HS with a good IB program

And because there is a group of staff and parents that have organized and keep pressuring others to write emails and get involved. This is a well organized campaign, with templates, talking points, etc that keep pushing their version of reality while the school is doing their investigation.

Thank you for noticing <3! Yes, we are organized. And yes, we have templates and talking points and so much evidence.

And we are not stopping until there is real accountability. Not a managed process or conflicted investigation. Rosskamm and Pardo (and the rest of their cronies) need to go and we will make sure it happens.

Your goal is to get all admin staff fired?

I said their cronies. Which fortunately is not all the staff.

Who are the "cronies"?

All the people Pardo installed so she could TenSquare DCI.

Much like they timecubed LAMB eh. (You sound like a crazy person, no one knows what tensquare is, and if they do they mostly think it’s a good thing)

This just seems like a lot of young naive staff and parents who are facing accountability and performance management for the first time in their lives.

DCI more than anything needs better IB test scores. Point blank. The current staff aren’t delivering them.

Happy to explain to people what a boondoggle TenSquare is and how they pillage charter schools. Or folks could read this article and continue to lose respect for Pardo, Rosskamm, and others: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/185902/behind-the-consulting-firm-raking-in-millions-from-dc-charter-schools/

Tensquared like most consulting groups lifts up the rug and shows you where the roaches are. Of COURSE the roaches don’t like it. And neither does the Washington city paper, which is basically the workers daily of dc.

The cold truth is that DCI’s staff really does need shaken up, and the staff are misaligned with the goals of the parents, the executive committee, and really the kids in the end. There are going to be a number of really hard reorgs at charter schools whose front line staff drank the equity kool aid. The parents are course correcting hard. If the staff win, you’re gonna get one of those “what happened to DCI” restrospectives in 5 years where enrollment is in the toilet because test scores are in the tank.

Ah so now we know what's really driving the opposition to the staff.

"The staff drank the equity kool aid." "Hard reorgs at charter schools." "Parents are course correcting hard." You're not a parent concerned about IB program integrity or test scores, you're waging an ideological campaign to reshape charter schools away from equity frameworks and framing DCI's staff as an obstacle to that project.

DCI was founded explicitly as a socially just, IB-for-all school. Its mission is written into its charter. Its member schools chose that mission. The staff who are being called 'roaches' are the people who built that mission and have been living it every day.

The Washington City Paper investigation documented that TenSquare left multiple schools worse than it found them, that scores dropped when they left, that their model had never been fully implemented anywhere, and that they operated through a web of undisclosed conflicts.

DCI was Tier 1 before Rosskamm. The staff built that and the people calling for accountability are trying to protect it.

Every parent had been so burned by “equity frameworks” at this point we’re just done. Anyone using the term thinks they can fix things that no school can fix. It’s a decadent, failed ideology and should be cast on the scrap heap of pedagogical philosophy.

The term needs to be retired, it’s just a signal that the people using it want less to elevate kids than drag the good performers down. If teachers want to do that, the admin really should try to get rid of them. If anything, the equity push has standardized low expectations and dragged the middle down.

There isn’t exactly an enormous pool of qualified teachers to draw from. It is a rapidly dwindling field.

[Anonymous]

DCI was founded as an IB-for-all, socially just school. That's not a staff invention or a union talking point. It's in the charter and it's in the mission statement. And it's why the five founding member schools created DCI in the first place.

Parents who chose DCI chose that mission (and more feeder parents are opting out of DCI bc of what Rosskamm and Pardo are doing).

Casting equity as a failed ideology, framing teachers who believe in it as sacrificing children, calling for admins to get rid of them, is not a critique of Michael Rosskamm's leadership. It's a critique of DCI's existence.

We're focusing on the immediate governance crisis and the board that is not meeting its fiduciary responsibility to this community.

Start another thread if you want to relitigate whether DCI should exist as the school it was founded to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCI was founded as an IB-for-all, socially just school. That's not a staff invention or a union talking point. It's in the charter and it's in the mission statement. And it's why the five founding member schools created DCI in the first place.

Parents who chose DCI chose that mission (and more feeder parents are opting out of DCI bc of what Rosskamm and Pardo are doing).

Casting equity as a failed ideology, framing teachers who believe in it as sacrificing children, calling for admins to get rid of them, is not a critique of Michael Rosskamm's leadership. It's a critique of DCI's existence.

We're focusing on the immediate governance crisis and the board that is not meeting its fiduciary responsibility to this community.

Start another thread if you want to relitigate whether DCI should exist as the school it was founded to be.

I think you need to google fiduciary