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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Completely agree. Parents who love the principal don't get that not having native speaking leadership creates big headaches in managing a team of Mainland teachers. It's not that she's a bad principal--she's a very good one by DC charter standards--it's that the Chinese teachers don't respect her leadership. They gang up on her because she doesn't know what they're saying when they don't speak English, and doesn't know the culture well (never having lived, worked or traveled extensively in China, Taiwan or HK). She also doesn't seem to understand, or particularly care, that many of the kids can't really communicate in Mandarin, even by the upper grades, presumably because she speaks Chinese so poorly.

For DCI to work well for the Mandarin track families, they're going to need a strong, decisive ABC admin, but without one at YY, I can't imagine DCI hiring one. Too bad because there are many strong candidates out there, particularly in NYC, CA, Toronto and Vancouver.  [/quote]

And yet you cannot and have not illustrated how all of this supposed disrespect and disconnect leads to negative outcomes for kids.  The teachers aren't leaving in any major numbers, and the kids are getting a good education. So even though I've seen no evidence of the disconnect you speak of, unless you are going to point out concrete ways it allegedly has a negative impact on learning and the whole school experience for students, to be honest, who really cares?  If the teachers aren't a revolving door and the education and school environment is really good, who cares about what you're talking about?[/quote]

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