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[quote=Anonymous]The clock-in issue is one bullet point in a six-page letter that documents potential legal violations, a nepotism concern, a $56,500 executive bonus while aides took home less than last year, 37 special education staff departures affecting nearly 500 students with IEPs, and an ED who made a documented false statement to a community member.

If the only thing in that letter were the clock-in policy, you'd be right to dismiss it. But it isn't and the repeated focus on that one point while ignoring everything else isn't engaging with the actual case being made.

And the letter isn't objecting to accountability. It's objecting to deductions applied in increments as small as 0.1 hours for arriving six minutes late when staff have no in-person duties. That's not accountability. That's punitive micromanagement designed to make people miserable enough to leave.

The letter asks for staff and parent voice in the process, not staff control. Those are different things. A search committee with community representation is standard governance practice at healthy schools.

On your LAMB experience: one bad outcome from a flawed process isn't an argument against community involvement in leadership searches. It's an argument for doing it better. The alternative you're describing, leaving it entirely to a board that appointed an investigator with a 6-figure financial relationship to the school, is not obviously safer.[/quote]

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