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[quote=Anonymous]Or maybe not someone who was bitter and just willing to speak up. For whats its worth, the former pricipal had planning meetings twice weekly much to the chagrin of the teachers which is how they were authorized for IB and she left the collaborative planning schedule for the new principal to implement.  Additionally, PBIS has to have postivie interventions and clear consequences that change behavior in order to wrok.  I'd hardly say that coralling all of the students with challenges in a back room on the third floor daily, letting students run the building each day and allowing students to damage windows, doors and furniture consistently would hardly mean that PBIS is working.  Despite how much you try and weave a story, the building was much more in control under the previous principal.

The rub was parents didn't like the previous principal because she didn't' pander to the white middle class parents like they thought she should. They were treated like all of the other parents which they didn't like.  As a result they now have a new principal who does engage the middle class parents in a much different way than she did. So now shes being lauded as "making improvements and changing behavior." Reality is the balance of attention and priorities for Cooke is shifting from all students despite where they come form and come with to only the students whose middle class parents live in the building of the current principal and who can schedule an email appointment.

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[quote=Anonymous]Right, PP, at a school where there are 97% students of color, the principal is kicking them all out. You are delusional.[/quote]

You should do some more fact checking before you start to call names.  Ask how many students of color got letters asking them not to return and attend thier boundary school instead and of those students ask how many had the majority of their academic careers at Cooke.  When you do that, then ask the Principal what was the outcome of her mandated weekly meetings with the Latino parents because they accused her of racism and unfair policies. Finally, ask how many staff members of color were written out of the budget, what was the ethnicity of the teachers who quit mid-year and then see how many staff members of color are hired as replacements.  After you do that, then you can call me crazy.

The school year is over and IMPACT can no longer be held against me.  I've moved on to better places but have first hand knowledge that are lived experiences and not made up fantasies based on what happens in a wing on the other side of the building and what a few middle class parents would have you to believe as fact.  As for your recommendation to report the challenges that are happening there.  We already have.  But as usual not much will be done.  That's good old DCPS for you.
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Ah, a bitter former employee who was able to do whatever he or she wanted under the former principal and didn't like that the new principal is working to improve the school by putting in place a behavioral intervention system (pbis) and meeting with teachers to ensure that they are teaching what he kids don't know.

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