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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another member of the admin team resigned on Friday. It will probably not get announced to parents because it wasn a student facing role. So much good stuff is done behind the scenes and parents aren’t informed when those people leave because it looks bad - it IS bad. 20+ staff have left this school year. Not everything is terrible but the good stuff isn’t sustainable- just not worth the risk. So disappointing how PCSB doesn’t intervene in these moments to save a place with really great potential.

Was this ever confirmed? That another admin person resigned?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another member of the admin team resigned on Friday. It will probably not get announced to parents because it wasn a student facing role. So much good stuff is done behind the scenes and parents aren’t informed when those people leave because it looks bad - it IS bad. 20+ staff have left this school year. Not everything is terrible but the good stuff isn’t sustainable- just not worth the risk. So disappointing how PCSB doesn’t intervene in these moments to save a place with really great potential.

Was this ever confirmed? That another admin person resigned?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another member of the admin team resigned on Friday. It will probably not get announced to parents because it wasn a student facing role. So much good stuff is done behind the scenes and parents aren’t informed when those people leave because it looks bad - it IS bad. 20+ staff have left this school year. Not everything is terrible but the good stuff isn’t sustainable- just not worth the risk. So disappointing how PCSB doesn’t intervene in these moments to save a place with really great potential.

Was this ever confirmed? That another admin person resigned?

Yes

Who was it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another member of the admin team resigned on Friday. It will probably not get announced to parents because it wasn a student facing role. So much good stuff is done behind the scenes and parents aren’t informed when those people leave because it looks bad - it IS bad. 20+ staff have left this school year. Not everything is terrible but the good stuff isn’t sustainable- just not worth the risk. So disappointing how PCSB doesn’t intervene in these moments to save a place with really great potential.

Was this ever confirmed? That another admin person resigned?

Yes

Who was it?

Student culture coordinator

[Anonymous]

Why are they unwilling to stay until the end of the school year? What is going on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are they unwilling to stay until the end of the school year? What is going on?

Next year "final" salaries were distributed in Jan/Feb with no rights to negotiate and they were low. Meanwhile, there are local shortages and other charter schools are willing to pay for great teachers and support staff.

Better question -- where is the money going? Follow the shortages?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are they unwilling to stay until the end of the school year? What is going on?

Next year "final" salaries were distributed in Jan/Feb with no rights to negotiate and they were low. Meanwhile, there are local shortages and other charter schools are willing to pay for great teachers and support staff.

Better question -- where is the money going? Follow the shortages?

Not just about money. Lack of clear routines and school culture make it hard to be effective - and that grinds people down. Combine that with the economic piece and the fact that so many of the staff are so young and relatively inexperienced and it snowballs.

[Anonymous]

What about the school culture is making things so hard? This was a school that was talked up by so many we know and we had high hopes...

[Anonymous]

The school culture was all about “warm and cozy”. You add 100 kids and a bunch of new staff, and the culture is no longer “warm and cozy”. It’s still pleasant and friendly, but definitely not warm and cozy. It will right itself, but will take time.

[Anonymous]

But I don’t understand how “pleasant and friendly”makes it a difficult culture for staff. Or are you saying that the change is what was difficult? I am trying to connect the dots.

[Anonymous]

I think that for the school to stabilize, admin will need to do the hard work of overhauling
the curriculum. Until that's done, the mainly inexperienced staff has to struggle with teaching
for the PARCC test, the hard work of the project-based curriculum, and the inclusion
classroom. As a former parent, I am also aware that some teachers have been subject to violence
and i've worried about whether they have received the support that they deserve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think that for the school to stabilize, admin will need to do the hard work of overhauling
the curriculum. Until that's done, the mainly inexperienced staff has to struggle with teaching
for the PARCC test, the hard work of the project-based curriculum, and the inclusion
classroom. As a former parent, I am also aware that some teachers have been subject to violence
and i've worried about whether they have received the support that they deserve.

Violence from the students? thats troubling. I have CMI first on my list, alhtough its highly unlikely we will get in, all these crazy CMI posts do give me pause. We don't have this much parent and admin drama at our IB title one school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about the school culture is making things so hard? This was a school that was talked up by so many we know and we had high hopes...

High hopes of it being racially motivated by it's website pictures?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that for the school to stabilize, admin will need to do the hard work of overhauling
the curriculum. Until that's done, the mainly inexperienced staff has to struggle with teaching
for the PARCC test, the hard work of the project-based curriculum, and the inclusion
classroom. As a former parent, I am also aware that some teachers have been subject to violence
and i've worried about whether they have received the support that they deserve.

Violence from the students? thats troubling. I have CMI first on my list, alhtough its highly unlikely we will get in, all these crazy CMI posts do give me pause. We don't have this much parent and admin drama at our IB title one school.

CMI parent here. Please do not believe everything you read in here. There are issues which the school has acknowledged and trying to address but no parent drama as far as I am concerned. CMI does not get much love on this board as you can tell.

[Anonymous]

But CMI got tons of love in the past, so something has happened/changed. And, from what I am hearing from CMI families - some of whom have left -the school is great for early childhood education and certain special needs, but that is it. I am hearing great disappointment with upper elementary and middle school and SN that does not fit into the CMI model. Is this right? Honestly, I am not worried about parent drama - we are a two parent working family and do not have time for all of that. Just need a good place for our kids.