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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is on the board that they don't do anything about this? Is it just the director's friends or something?  Reading through the last few pages of this thread it seems crazy that they'd let all this go by without doing more for the parents.  [/quote]

http://www.shiningstarspcs.org/our-school/board-of-directors.html

I had a child at SSMA in 2013-2014, which was the year that they fired the founding executive director and subsequently lost the founding principal (his wife). That was done with very little communication to the parent community. They hired Dr. Rodriguez that year and she was off-putting from the very beginning. That spring/summer, the school prematurely announced a new location not once but twice and both times, the location fell through. The location drama started after the lottery was already closed, so people had limited options for finding new schools if they wanted to do so. At that time, the Board was not helpful at all. They were responsible for the terrible communication surrounding the dismissal of the founding ED, and when the parent community approached them about it, we were essentially told that our feedback was unwelcome.

At least a handful of people who were on the Board at that time are still on the Board now. They hired Dr. R, and I have no reason to believe that they will waver in their support of her. I agree that it seems crazy, but this issue is not new. It has been 5 years of drama one way or another. People stick around because their children generally have good classroom experiences or they care so much about Montessori that they will tolerate a school with poor planning, poor communication, and poor engagement skills in order for their child to attend a Montessori school.[/quote]

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