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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have a lot of insider info, but I think it's a snowballing kind of a situation. Per my kid's experience, there are a lot of young, inexperienced teachers who are not managing their life well, which probably leads the staff to infantilize them, which leads to a backlash. But that's what you get when you are limited by how much money you can pay your teachers. The good ones leave really quickly, the bad ones stay and become more and more disgruntled.[/quote]

But the funds available to pay teachers have not drastically diminished in the last 3 or 4 years, yet the steady stream of the better teachers that were there for awhile has turned into a gush of exits and too many are known and widely credited as great teachers.

And really, when 80% of staff vote and 94% of them vote no confidence in the Exec Director, how is that not a crisis?  Even if many in leardership think the issues are somehow not urgent, how is that high a % of staff saying the Exec Director affirmatively has to go how is that NOT an urgent issue needing action? [/quote]

I don’t know all the details of what is going on but the school has now responded from the last meeting that there is going to be open sessions for parents and staff to discuss concerns with leadership.  There is going to be open board meetings to discuss concerns.

So yes, school is moving on this.  But the teachers really need to come up with concrete and valid reasons about what the issues are and the schools response to why they implemented the change if they want to have any case.

Not these generalized soft allegations with no substantial support.[/quote]

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