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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aside from firing a popular teacher, what are the issues? Give me your elevator pitch.  I'm asking because the letters are not clear. It's really surprising to me that people feel so strongly to yell and interrupt on a call but can't articulate the issue for new families in an anonymous forum.[/quote]

This has been answered multiple times in this thread, but here it is one more time for anyone just joining.
The elevator pitch:
- 94% of voting staff, 175 people, submitted a formal no confidence letter to the board documenting five categories of serious failures
- 37 special education staff have left since 2023, affecting nearly 500 students with IEPs and 504s. The school may be out of legal compliance with federal special education law
- The ED received a $30,000 bonus while structuring aide pay in a way that left some of DCI’s lowest paid staff taking home less than last year, at a school posting multi-million dollar surpluses
- The ED hired his wife as a consultant. No public disclosure of that contract has been made, no board approval has been confirmed, and her background is in Achievement First, a no-excuses test prep network that is philosophically the opposite of IB
- The MYP Coordinator is gone with no succession plan, the DP Coordinator is being non-renewed over student and staff objection, and DCI has an IB re-evaluation in 27-28
- The board announced an investigation but left the subject of that investigation in charge of running his own community town halls while it proceeds

The letters are clear. They have been clear. The issues have been stated and restated multiple times in this thread.  At some point the question isn’t whether the issues are articulated. It’s whether someone is willing to read them. [/quote]

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