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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Founding LAMB parent here.

Virtually every nonprofit reaches a point where it outgrows its founders.

Frankly, Cristina and Diane should have retired or moved on at the school's 10th anniversary. The skills needed to start and launch a school are not the same ones needed to manage a growing enterprise. When LAMB started they intended to have only 6 classrooms total!

It is time for a change and more professionalism. That will be hard for some of the teachers, and others will embrace it.

The friends and family, informal management and hiring style that made the place warm and homey was also their Achilles heel. They just couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that someone they knew, hired and trusted could be a sexual predator -- so they brushed aside the warnings.

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True of for-profit companies too. And definitely true at LAMB. [/quote]

What about at other charters though? Have the founders all left? Usually in DCPS people are complaining because principals DON'T stick around, not because they DO. Good ones are hard to come by.[/quote]

People complain when principals leave after a year or two. Ten years is a very long tenure -- probably too long in one place.

As for DC charters whose founders have left or retired, off the top of my head Washington Latin (founder left; longtime HOS retired after 8-9 years); YY; DCI; EL Haynes.

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