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[quote=Anonymous]I have been at Cardozo for a while and truthfully I’ve stayed because of the kids and many of my colleagues. Unfortunately, I have seen it decline. People gave our principal the benefit of the doubt for a while because he started at Cardozo in 2019 right before COVID. However, it’s now 2024, and the school continues to deteriorate.  Proficiency in math and reading has tanked and attendance rates are atrocious.

When the possibility to become an XQ school arose, Mr. Mola drank the kool-aid. Unfortunately, XQ has only made it worse. I don’t even know where the money is going at this point, but our school doesn’t even have enough devices for students to use. How are we preparing students to be business owners if they cannot even access basic technology?

Instead of Cardozo Education Campus, it should be renamed Cardozo Enabling Campus.  Students are not rarely held accountable which is a major problem. Systems that we once had no longer exist and it is negatively impacting children and not preparing them for how things actually work in the real world. Many students continue to roam the hallways all throughout the day, day after day, and the behavior is tolerated. If this isn’t considered low expectations, then I don’t know what is.

We should be holding our students to high standards and providing supports along the way. This includes accountability. Instead, the principal seems to want to be buddy-buddy with the students and is non-confrontational when students break rules. It gets really tiring for teachers especially as students rarely receive consequences and students know that they can get away with things. Cardozo lacks structure and XQ is not going to solve the issues.

Don’t even get me started on Dr. Blake. He has been truly detrimental to the school. He is only words, little action. It feels like he has his own agenda— which is to build up his resume, as previous posters have stated.

We need to get back to the basics, which is providing an environment where teaching and learning can happen without all these distractions. [/quote]

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