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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Missed the meeting this morning - did they address any of these issues?[/quote]

Yes, but only surface level.  [b]Tripled down on the DCC.[/b][/quote]

Could anyone expand on the "tripling down on the DCC'? This is one of the most awful things the current GDS HS administration, especially the HS principal, has really enforced. This terrible disciplinary process reinforces anonymous reporting, kids who go in front of the DCC for any type of offense small or big have to go in front of a student panel and then the student panel suggests the disciplinary action that is approved by administration. The process is horrible, no transparency and often goes on for weeks leaving the kid in question in limbo.

[b]The problem with the current administration is they aren't open to listening? This disciplinary process is flawed but the don't want to hear it. [/b]

Recent article about the DCC in the school paper can be found here: https://theaugurbit.com/2023/11/13/inside-the-dcc-the-committee-that-makes-disciplinary-recommendations/
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I think that GDS is hearing it from parents, but they ultimately seem to side with "research" that reinforces their choices. Many questions were answered with, "well the research suggests" variants. That's fine, but it shuts down the conversation and makes families feel powerless over decisions that significantly impact their children. It was also suggested that the HS students are on board with the DCC and find it successful, but it wasn't clear to me how they captured that data. This specific DCC issues won't impact many families, of course, but I think it speaks to broader administrative communication concerns that families are worried about.[/quote]

Different poster.  The tripling down emphasized that this was always confidential - in the 6 years that the DCC has been in place that there have been zero incidents of the members of the DCC sharing information outside of the committee.  That this was all research-based and best practices that consequences not be a one-time punitive measure but that when delivered by peers really gives the perp the opportunity to consider how their actions represent themselves and affect their community.  It got confusing b/c Yom kept using academic integrity, i.e. cheating, but then Khalid emphasized that in the handbook that the first instance of cheating is handled between student and teacher wouldn't go to DCC.  The only other example given was using the word "shut up".  It all sounds like the biggest waste of time to me, frankly.  The article linked said that all of this was over a shove.  I think that while shoving isn't the answer that between teenage boys it happens and perhaps after multiple shoves that perhaps it should be addressed, one shove does not a disciplinary action make.[/quote]

Wait so saying "shut up" is a DCC level infraction at GDS?

Fact that HS Principal doesn't know that cheating and academic integrity expressly does NOT go to DCC is not a great sign that she understands what the actual F she's doing. She's not new to the school.

They have used DCC for super tiny things this year that I would have never imagined would merit going to the committee. And every question we have asked has been pushed down, avoided etc.

Someone in an earlier post wrote about the two major issues w/ the process:

1) No transparency to the student that an interview they are sitting for is "on the record", being transcribed and will be used against them verbatim when they go to DCC. Hard enough for kids to understand this in our justice system let alone at a school

2) No transparency as to what the specific charges and evidence is against a student when the case does go to DCC. What's the infraction? What do the witnesses say? That is not told to the student.

If there is evidence around those practices, she and Khalid need to show it. There is no evidence. It's all capricious. Principal doesnt even know what the committee is for apparently. But she has evidence and research.[/quote]

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