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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel pretty helpless as a MV parent (not OP). Parents made heartbreaking appeals for basic safety at the MV public comment board meeting, and the response at the most recent board meeting was to emphasize the board’s primary responsibility in ensuring fiduciary responsibility. They take absolutely no responsibility for ensuring proper leadership, student safety, or student learning. They do not even acknowledge written comments by parents, let alone respond meaningfully. There is also not a real parent organization. MV works to prevent meaningful organization my parents under the guise of “equity.” There is really nowhere to turn. [/quote]

This is all true of most charters (maybe dcps too I wouldn’t know). If you can’t get the ear of your leadership, you have no recourse. Some PTOs try to be more activist and usually get shut down. You learn quickly that it doesn’t work.[/quote]

In DCPS sometimes the principals *choose* to be more responsive to the parents and the PTO, especially if they have a mandate to grow the school and improve test scores.  Other times that's not the case, it just depends.  Charters are sometimes responsive if parents really put the fear into them about retention, but it's hard for parents because the only way to really motivate change is to go on a donation strike or publicly blow the whistle, which is basically sabotaging your school.  It might be the right thing in the long run, but it's a very hard thing for a parent to do, because it's harmful to the kids and it burns bridges socially.[/quote]

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