DCI Parent Petition

[Anonymous]

Can we revisit the amount of $ the heads of these charter schools receive?

And people want more funding for charter schools? I think you have it…your principals and boards just like to spend it on themselves

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we revisit the amount of $ the heads of these charter schools receive?

And people want more funding for charter schools? I think you have it…your principals and boards just like to spend it on themselves

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

With all the drama, I was expecting worse. Basically they don’t like being accountable to show up a on time and DCI released an at will employee without telling all the staff and students the reason.

Sounds like the biggest issue is with the union. “Salaries have also been a central facet of the complaints made by teachers and staff. Last year, DCI teachers unionized in the hope of getting higher pay, but some of them say they have not seen the changes that they were promised.”

Who promised them higher pay? Sounds like they should be hammering the Mayor and Council for funding parity like the law requires so they could get paid more.

I support the unionization drive but I thought it was messy and poorly led. I am not very surprised that the teachers are learning the hard way that collective bargaining involves bargaining. Best case scenario with a union at a charter school is you have fewer permanent staff making more money, and worst case is you still get people fired and churn increases because admin starts doing things like auditing card punches and firing troublemakers who might have a problem with the concept of linear time.

This part is very sad. There’s a limited amount of funding going to each charter and raising salaries most often means cutting elsewhere. It’s too bad when those cuts have to come from reducing staff instead of other kinds of expenses. But like the previous poster said earlier that’s why the teachers and their union reps should be livid that charters are being shorted in the budget. And it’s only going to get worse if the current budget proposal passes - less than half of the teacher pay amount previously provided to charters is reflected in the upcoming year’s budget.

On top of that, this seems like a contract that was badly negotiated from the teacher/staff’s side and they are trying to make the admin the fall guy for contract issues.

You’re assuming the dispute is only about money.

The concern many people have is that when this many stakeholders lose confidence in leadership, the Board’s response seems to be explaining away the concerns rather than asking why they’re occurring in the first place.

The board and most parents appear to realize that the faction that has lost confidence is a small group of people who seem unable to realize that the board and administration cannot comment on personnel matters.

Once they realized that there was no explanation that they could put out there that would both satisfy this loud but small group AND keep litigation risk low, they moved on.

That this group seems to be entirely composed of a set of parents who seem bound to Montessori nonsense, caused drama at their previous school, AND are unable to craft a coherent argument even using every LLM available is coincidental, I’m sure.

In what world is 94% a small group of people? You should try using an LLM to help you with reading comprehension.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

[Anonymous]

The loud malcontents forget that most families actually want DCI to maintain accountability and high standards.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

I think there were like 12 kids in the walkout, most of the kids didn’t even know it was happening. The staff number is unsurprising, given how teachers rebel against any and all accountability at every school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we revisit the amount of $ the heads of these charter schools receive?

And people want more funding for charter schools? I think you have it…your principals and boards just like to spend it on themselves

Are there specific accusations about the board spending money on itself? Charter boards are volunteer positions; they should be raising funds for the school, they shouldn’t be getting money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can we revisit the amount of $ the heads of these charter schools receive?

And people want more funding for charter schools? I think you have it…your principals and boards just like to spend it on themselves

Are there specific accusations about the board spending money on itself? Charter boards are volunteer positions; they should be raising funds for the school, they shouldn’t be getting money.

The board is not getting paid. It’s fully volunteer. But don’t let facts get in the way!

And yes sure, I am unsurprised that 94% of staff want to get rid of an exec director who makes staff accountable. Anyone would prefer to have a supervisor who turns a blind eye.

However the one point I am still confused about is what is endangering IB for all? I truly don’t understand what that means. What actions are the board and the director taking that is endangering the IB for all?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can we revisit the amount of $ the heads of these charter schools receive?

And people want more funding for charter schools? I think you have it…your principals and boards just like to spend it on themselves

Are there specific accusations about the board spending money on itself? Charter boards are volunteer positions; they should be raising funds for the school, they shouldn’t be getting money.

The board is not getting paid. It’s fully volunteer. But don’t let facts get in the way!

And yes sure, I am unsurprised that 94% of staff want to get rid of an exec director who makes staff accountable. Anyone would prefer to have a supervisor who turns a blind eye.

However the one point I am still confused about is what is endangering IB for all? I truly don’t understand what that means. What actions are the board and the director taking that is endangering the IB for all?

I am unsure if it is the same set of parents but some parents don’t like that DCI is offering more AP classes.

These parents don’t realize that top IB schools in the U.S., especially public ones, offer AP classes because the scores help buttress the college applications of top students (top schools can be a little skeptical of predicted IB scores, and seniors don’t get their actual scores back until after admissions decisions are out).

[Anonymous]

DCI is the largest high school in the area, and one of the only diverse ones, and experiences challenges that reflect our area, as a school would. I am really starting to believe that this forum is just a release valve for AU Park moms and dads that decided to self segregate their children and looking for a place to spread their vindictive venom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCI is the largest high school in the area, and one of the only diverse ones, and experiences challenges that reflect our area, as a school would. I am really starting to believe that this forum is just a release valve for AU Park moms and dads that decided to self segregate their children and looking for a place to spread their vindictive venom

No one does anyone any favors when they try to say rigor is exclusionary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous[b wrote:]DCI is the largest high school in the area, [/b]and one of the only diverse ones, and experiences challenges that reflect our area, as a school would. I am really starting to believe that this forum is just a release valve for AU Park moms and dads that decided to self segregate their children and looking for a place to spread their vindictive venom

This is completely untrue. DCI has 1600 kids in the whole school 6-12. So maybe 900 in the high school. Jackson Reed has 1855. Even Dunbar has the same amount as DCI. Alexandria City has like 4000. And what kind of diversity are you talking about? JR and DCI have about the same at risk (15.5 to 15.9). Oddly DCI has 17% English learners to 14 percent at JR. But since JR has a larger population that’s many more students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

I think there were like 12 kids in the walkout, most of the kids didn’t even know it was happening. The staff number is unsurprising, given how teachers rebel against any and all accountability at every school.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The entire high school walked out. Watch the video.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

I think there were like 12 kids in the walkout, most of the kids didn’t even know it was happening. The staff number is unsurprising, given how teachers rebel against any and all accountability at every school.

Your continued "teachers hate accountability" argument doesn't really explain why students walked out, alumni spoke out, parents organized, and community members testified publicly. At some point, it becomes statistically improbable that every group raising concerns is the problem.

When your explanation for every criticism is that the critic is lazy, uninformed, manipulated, or disgruntled, you're no longer evaluating evidence. You're protecting your (wrong) conclusion.