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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCI was founded as an IB-for-all, socially just school. That's not a staff invention or a union talking point. It's in the charter and it's in the mission statement. And it's why the five founding member schools created DCI in the first place.

Parents who chose DCI chose that mission (and more feeder parents are opting out of DCI bc of what Rosskamm and Pardo are doing).

Casting equity as a failed ideology, framing teachers who believe in it as sacrificing children, calling for admins to get rid of them, is not a critique of Michael Rosskamm's leadership. It's a critique of DCI's existence.

We're focusing on the immediate governance crisis and the board that is not meeting its fiduciary responsibility to this community.

Start another thread if you want to relitigate whether DCI should exist as the school it was founded to be.[/quote]

I wonder what percentage of parents have any idea what their child’s school mission statement even is. [/quote]

They certainly don't make much effort to talk to incoming parents or any parents about it. We get a lot of bland pillars talk.

I think most parents just wanted DCI as a language school (continue progress in the language their kids spent years learning), and an IB school, and a culturally diverse school which celebrated world culture and language, so would essentially continue the missions of their elementaries. Oh, and just a F*&*& GOOD SCHOOL PLEASE as the topline in a city that has precious few of them at middle/hs level if you aren't made of money.

The whole part about IB for All and Social Justice seem like add-ons to parents while they may indeed be the main purpose on paper. [/quote]

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