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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I joined to genuinely try to understand more about the language and IB curriculum (we're new to DCI) but angry high school parents (not just the lamb parent) commandeered the whole event.  It's really frustrating and embarrassing (seriously, no one is going to tell you why a teacher was let go and you are not entitled to know why a teacher is out).

I hope the school puts on event just for MS parents.[/quote]

The point of this meeting was not to educate parents on language and the IB curriculum. It was to address the recent concerns raised by staff and parents about how Rosskamm is decimating DCI's language and IB curriculum. [/quote]

You wanted it to be about the ED, but that's not how it was billed to families.  You wasted my time and the time of other families that were hoping to learn about the school's approach.  You made a fool of yourselves -- this was not the forum for your antics. [/quote]

The session was *never* billed as an info session. Rosskamm's email last month explicitly framed the first town hall as being about "concerns raised" and "issues under my leadership". That's why parents were raising those concerns.

Go back to the actual email that announced these town halls, because the framing that parents 'hijacked' an IB information session doesn't hold up.
The email is titled 'A Community Update from Executive Director Michael Rosskamm.' It opens by referencing the board meeting, the no confidence concerns, and questions about 'whether we are fully living up to our commitments.' It explicitly frames the town halls as a response to those concerns and his words are 'these issues must be addressed directly' and 'I take responsibility.'

The first session was described as focusing on IB for All and language programs specifically in the context of concerns raised about them. That's not an academic information session, that's an accountability conversation. Parents who showed up expecting answers to the questions the ED himself raised in his own email were not out of line. They were taking him at his word.

What actually happened is that the ED used a format he controlled to talk around the concerns rather than address them which is the same pattern documented at the March 19th board meeting, and the same pattern the staff letter describes over three years of 'listening sessions' that led nowhere.

The parents who pushed back weren't making fools of themselves. They were refusing to sit through another managed non-answer dressed up as dialogue. That's not antics. That's accountability.[/quote]

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