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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Different poster- from my lamb experience with ED turnover- I just don’t think it’s a good idea for staff to dictate that an ED must go.

Eventually the staff at lamb ran the show. Some teachers were excellent.  Some teachers were terrible. You could do very little if you had a terrible situation. The current ED stays afloat hiding from issues and avoiding taking a position. You don’t want that, especially in a high school. It’s vital to have an ED that makes hard and often unpopular decisions. [/quote]

Like making custodians come in to mop clean floors over spring break just to get their full paycheck?[/quote]

I am not a DCI parent, but I have worked at a school before and the janitorial / maintenance hours + calendar is sometimes different than the rest of the school calendar. Often times there is cleaning or maintenance work required that is better done when school is not in session (which makes sense). This is pretty standard. Of course, this expectation should be laid out clearly in advance to impacted staff. [/quote]

You're right that maintenance work during breaks is standard and makes sense. Nobody is arguing against that.

The specific allegation in the staff letter isn't that custodians worked over break. It's that under the pay structure Rosskamm put in place, custodians were required to come in on days when no one else was in the building; not because there was work to do, but because the hourly structure required them to log enough hours to receive their correct pay. The building wasn't being used. The floors weren't dirty. They came in to meet an arbitrary hour threshold created by a compensation structure that Rosskamm chose to implement despite staff objections.

That's not standard maintenance scheduling. That's a pay structure so poorly designed that it forced people to perform performative labor just to earn what they were owed. And this happened at a school with a multi-million dollar surplus.[/quote]

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