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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to the emergency town hall on staff retention at Cmi last night. Just this school year — in the middle of the school year— they lost 7 teachers and 6 administrators. The teachers at CMI are mostly great (except the ps 3 teacher who was too new and frazzled to  handle  a horrible mix of rowdy kids). The problem, however is the school’s founder/Director. Until she leaves, all the hr consultants in the world won’t make a difference. She is cold and toxic. That said, cmi is not a horrible school.. it’s going through growing pains and it’s showing big time. They need support and help. I’m confident that it can live up to its own standards again when the founder leaves .[/quote]

Wow an emergency town hall!!!

Can someone please describe the contents of the secret meeting? I couldn’t attend. [/quote]

Someone sent out very detailed notes by email. If you were a CMI parent you would have gotten them.

To the people who say this is all Golnar’s fault: what do you mean? I have kids at CMI, have been there since the old building, and I have not had any problems with her. Granted I haven’t interacted with her all that much but I find all the bashing very opaque, vague, and mysterious. [/quote]

I find the secrecy about the town hall meeting very strange given that this is a public school and parents who were deciding where to lottery have an interest in knowing what's going on at the school. Even the timing of the town hall, so that lottery lists functionally had to be fixed before any information could leak out...[/quote]

Also a CMI parent here and I think you're paranoid.  I[b]t was an emergency town hall because there was a lot of frustration about the lack of communication regarding staff turnover.  [/b]The school responded fairly quickly with this town hall and detailed notes were sent out the next day.  I definitely agree that the school is having problems with turnover, but the vilification of Golnar on this board is bizarre.  [/quote]

Whatever their issues are, huge kuddos to the school admins for holding an emergency town hall in response to families' frustration. [/quote]

Wouldn't it have been great if it did not boil to that point.  Regular communication that is open / honest / transparent goes a long way.[/quote]

DC charters must have dulled my expectations.[/quote]

Ha!  The anti-charter troll has arrived.  As if DCPS set anyone's expectations high.   :lol:  :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

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