LAMB AP's contract not renewed

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Anonymous wrote:I’m confused. Why would any parent care of Charis bad mouths then to the board? I could care less about what any of them think of me. It’s the board of a local public charter school. These parents are insane. If there isn’t a problem with teacher retention, the test scores are good and the kids are happy why are you complaining??? Those 3 things alone make LAMB better than most of the schools in the country.

I'm so glad to finally read some rational comments. The audacity of a select few over-entitled parents is really concerning.

The teacher retention at LAMB is above and beyond what any other charter has.

Well I guess it’s because test scores are dropping, spanish is close to nonexistent in upper grades, and teacher turnover is actually quite high for special Ed.

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Anonymous wrote:My take from last night’s Zoom meeting is that the school wants to hire a couple administrators with extensive classroom teaching experience to provide teacher coaching and improve teaching, and while it was unspoken, it appears the administrator whose contract is not being renewed doesn’t have that experience.

Regarding Spanish instruction, yes, that is a big problem. It’s not been the experience in my kid’s classrooms at all, but I know that it has been in other classrooms. Sounds like those teachers in those classrooms need to speak Spanish or be replaced.

Michelle was a teacher for a long time. She was also special education coordinator at LAMB.

I guess call me crazy but it was terrifying to me to hear that no plan was in place to put others in charge of her duties like 504 plans.

I think it is well within Charis’s right to let Michelle go, but if there is no plan in place for others to handle her workload then it is time for the Board to come in and make sure things are running properly.

Parcc scores are low, map scores show a decline, spanish really is bad but there is zero plan to address that. Oh and there will probably be no aftercare for most people.

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PARCC scores went down a bit for ELA and up a bit for math. That’s pretty impressive considering Covid. I agree with you regarding Spanish, but the reason they’re not speaking as much Spanish in upper el is because the kids are way behind due to Covid and they don’t want them to miss out on substantive learning in other subjects because they can’t understand Spanish.

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Anonymous wrote:PARCC scores went down a bit for ELA and up a bit for math. That’s pretty impressive considering Covid. I agree with you regarding Spanish, but the reason they’re not speaking as much Spanish in upper el is because the kids are way behind due to Covid and they don’t want them to miss out on substantive learning in other subjects because they can’t understand Spanish.

I would argue that they're up in math because it's a high SES parent population that supplemented during the closures, and kids learned more with traditional methods that were available than they were learning in the classroom. Probably also that kids just got more comfortable doing schoolwork on devices.

And if the scores didn't go down substantially, how are kids "way behind due to Covid"? Those seem like contradictory statements.

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Way behind in Spanish.

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LAMB parents are honestly one of the things I like least about sending my kids to LAMB. A small but very vocal group of parents tend to cause a lot of noise. It is exhausting to be dragged into some of these conversations, they are entitled and toxic.

But the teachers are fantastic, my kids are thriving, and the administration is fine if not stellar, so we put up with the noise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LAMB parents are honestly one of the things I like least about sending my kids to LAMB. A small but very vocal group of parents tend to cause a lot of noise. It is exhausting to be dragged into some of these conversations, they are entitled and toxic.

But the teachers are fantastic, my kids are thriving, and the administration is fine if not stellar, so we put up with the noise.

Glad I’m not the only one who feels that way. I felt like I was taking crazy pills because my family has had a good experience so far at LAMB.

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Im so glad finally parents with common sense are chiming in. I am so tired of the loud few that make it sound like everything is awful and everyone but one person in admin is horrible. A school does not run on the shoulders of a single person. It is so sad to read such untruths about a place where both of my kids and us are happy.

I joined the charla last night and agree with the previous post that it seems they are looking for something the AP doesn’t have. It makes sense to me that they will look for Montessori expertise given that LAMB is a Montessori school. I had assumed she had that expertise.

Regarding aftercare, I didn’t hear them say no aftercare for new students. I heard that they are working on a plan and on hiring but cannot guarantee that every single child will get a spot. This does make me nervous but I liked that they said they will open registration in June and do a lottery for spots. At least this will give us ample time to Olán if we don’t get spots.

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lol and one of them is clogging up ParentSquare with this nonsense. So we get to enjoy push notifications about this too!

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Anonymous wrote:lol and one of them is clogging up ParentSquare with this nonsense. So we get to enjoy push notifications about this too!

I wish the school would do what some parents are accusing them of doing and actually censored this parent. Enough, please!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LAMB parents are honestly one of the things I like least about sending my kids to LAMB. A small but very vocal group of parents tend to cause a lot of noise. It is exhausting to be dragged into some of these conversations, they are entitled and toxic.

But the teachers are fantastic, my kids are thriving, and the administration is fine if not stellar, so we put up with the noise.

Fine if not stellar? Hahahahaha

Enjoy having no aftercare next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LAMB parents are honestly one of the things I like least about sending my kids to LAMB. A small but very vocal group of parents tend to cause a lot of noise. It is exhausting to be dragged into some of these conversations, they are entitled and toxic.

But the teachers are fantastic, my kids are thriving, and the administration is fine if not stellar, so we put up with the noise.

Glad I’m not the only one who feels that way. I felt like I was taking crazy pills because my family has had a good experience so far at LAMB.

Just you wait

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Im so glad finally parents with common sense are chiming in. I am so tired of the loud few that make it sound like everything is awful and everyone but one person in admin is horrible. A school does not run on the shoulders of a single person. It is so sad to read such untruths about a place where both of my kids and us are happy.

I joined the charla last night and agree with the previous post that it seems they are looking for something the AP doesn’t have. It makes sense to me that they will look for Montessori expertise given that LAMB is a Montessori school. I had assumed she had that expertise.

Regarding aftercare, I didn’t hear them say no aftercare for new students. I heard that they are working on a plan and on hiring but cannot guarantee that every single child will get a spot. This does make me nervous but I liked that they said they will open registration in June and do a lottery for spots. At least this will give us ample time to Olán if we don’t get spots.

"Parents with common sense" = new parents with no institutional memory whose kids are so far away from middle school that they can blithely bumble along, wrapped in their warm upper-middle class ignorance and the knowledge that Lowell or the burbs are never far away. Spare me. Those of us who have been here a while know that getting rid of an effective bilingual administrator who was able to get things done in favor of hiring a Montessori director is complete garbage for our kids (particularly those in upper el where - spoiler - Montessori breaks down spectacularly) and it's absolutely on point for Charis and Majose who are vindictive, insecure and self-interested. The teachers are fantastic and most parents (the above notwithstanding) are awesome at LAMB. But the Executive Director and her enablers are serious liabilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Im so glad finally parents with common sense are chiming in. I am so tired of the loud few that make it sound like everything is awful and everyone but one person in admin is horrible. A school does not run on the shoulders of a single person. It is so sad to read such untruths about a place where both of my kids and us are happy.

I joined the charla last night and agree with the previous post that it seems they are looking for something the AP doesn’t have. It makes sense to me that they will look for Montessori expertise given that LAMB is a Montessori school. I had assumed she had that expertise.

Regarding aftercare, I didn’t hear them say no aftercare for new students. I heard that they are working on a plan and on hiring but cannot guarantee that every single child will get a spot. This does make me nervous but I liked that they said they will open registration in June and do a lottery for spots. At least this will give us ample time to Olán if we don’t get spots.

"Parents with common sense" = new parents with no institutional memory whose kids are so far away from middle school that they can blithely bumble along, wrapped in their warm upper-middle class ignorance and the knowledge that Lowell or the burbs are never far away. Spare me. Those of us who have been here a while know that getting rid of an effective bilingual administrator who was able to get things done in favor of hiring a Montessori director is complete garbage for our kids (particularly those in upper el where - spoiler - Montessori breaks down spectacularly) and it's absolutely on point for Charis and Majose who are vindictive, insecure and self-interested. The teachers are fantastic and most parents (the above notwithstanding) are awesome at LAMB. But the Executive Director and her enablers are serious liabilities.

+1.

We absolutely loved the warm and fuzzy Montessori feeling from PK-3 through second grade. But then you watch your 5th grader trying to learn algebra using rainbow colored blocks. That's when you realize the Montessori ideologues have pushed it too far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Im so glad finally parents with common sense are chiming in. I am so tired of the loud few that make it sound like everything is awful and everyone but one person in admin is horrible. A school does not run on the shoulders of a single person. It is so sad to read such untruths about a place where both of my kids and us are happy.

I joined the charla last night and agree with the previous post that it seems they are looking for something the AP doesn’t have. It makes sense to me that they will look for Montessori expertise given that LAMB is a Montessori school. I had assumed she had that expertise.

Regarding aftercare, I didn’t hear them say no aftercare for new students. I heard that they are working on a plan and on hiring but cannot guarantee that every single child will get a spot. This does make me nervous but I liked that they said they will open registration in June and do a lottery for spots. At least this will give us ample time to Olán if we don’t get spots.

"Parents with common sense" = new parents with no institutional memory whose kids are so far away from middle school that they can blithely bumble along, wrapped in their warm upper-middle class ignorance and the knowledge that Lowell or the burbs are never far away. Spare me. Those of us who have been here a while know that getting rid of an effective bilingual administrator who was able to get things done in favor of hiring a Montessori director is complete garbage for our kids (particularly those in upper el where - spoiler - Montessori breaks down spectacularly) and it's absolutely on point for Charis and Majose who are vindictive, insecure and self-interested. The teachers are fantastic and most parents (the above notwithstanding) are awesome at LAMB. But the Executive Director and her enablers are serious liabilities.

Ah, lovely. All the parents who disagree that the administrators are terrible are bad parents.

So Montessori is terrible after 2nd grade, the fantastic teachers can’t even teach the kids algebra, and this is the ED’s fault? Of course I don’t believe those allegations, but that’s the logic offered above.

I mean, obviously these parents are legitimately upset about something, but it just sounds like lashing out at everything and everyone now, including the parents they’re trying to convince to join their efforts to convince the board to make changes.