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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope you're right that LAMB stays great (excluding how they deal with potential sexual predators--obviously that was a problem). Though certainly not everyone feels that way. In the hallway at school this morning I head some parents discussing where they were hoping to lottery into next year. Ie it sounds like, at this point at least, they are abandoning the school.

My concern is that the administration who is being fired was actually instrumental to the quality of the school (again, excluding the unforgivable mistakes made re Fernandez). The teachers are the key--but who hires and manages the teacher and sets the vision for the school? By analogy, by many accounts Steve Jobs was a real SOB however no one questions he was crucial to the success of Apple. The fact that some people--teachers included--found the principal etc. who are leaving annoying or bad or whatever does not mean that they people who are leaving weren't crucial to the success of the school.

My hope of course is that the people who fill those roles will be EVEN better than Encinas and co were. Of course, a truly excellent principal is hard to find. I've been super impressed by the other administrators I've interacted with, but that is just on a personal, bump-into-you-in-the-hall basis. I don't actually know what it takes to make a school great other than retaining great teachers.

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There was lottery chatter last year too when things felt much worse and yet no mass exodus materialized. The Board is keeping Diane on through the end of the year to ensure a smooth transition. There are plenty of current and former teachers and administrators who could step into leadership roles too.

I'm not even going to bother with your atrocious analogy. I was a Cristina and Diane believer but they made major mistakes that put our children in jeopardy. This is called accountability and this is the right thing for the school.[/quote]

Good to know about last year's experience with the lottery chatter not materializing. Aside from that, while we like our classmates they---like we---were just lucky to get in so I suspect any replacements will also be great (unless everyone is scared away from even entering the lottery). However, the innovation this year is that this report was extremely damning. It's hard to read it as anything other than gross negligence. Last year we didn't know that.

The Steve Jobs analogy (I do not know what your complaint with it is) was a response to the comments above that teachers and parents didn't like Cristina etc. (I wasn't aware of that---though employees often have problems with managers---and I never had an issue with them). There is obviously no question that they failed big time and need to go. But despite that major inexcusable lapse the idea that they were 100 percent terrible (clearly not an idea you hold) can't be right. The question I wonder about is what hard-to-replace skills will they take with them? And will LAMB replace those skills. I hope so!!

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