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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Board meeting is now over. From what I've been told, the board proved itself a rubber stamping machine and has basically backed the ED. Expect no change.

Here's what will happen next:

the hostile work environment at SSMA will continue
People who spoke out will be fired or will leave
Parents who are upset with all of the problems with facilities and operations that leaked out will leave
But they will be replaced by people on the waitlist, dying to get into SSMA
Meanwhile, word will leak out into the Montessori community that SSMA is a toxic workplace and no self-respecting Montessorian will interview there unless desperate
The quality of instruction will sink and SSMA will limp forward as damaged goods
But it will continue

FYI: [b]This is how politics work in any organization. The people in power like the ED marshal a group of decision-making allies who will support them come hell or high water. And unless they do something criminal, they know they are safe. It takes serious under-preformance to dislodge them. And SSMA is not there quite yet.
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Good luck. I'm out[/quote]

This is something I've tried to raise in another thread. There is a serious problem when this is how a good number of our schools are run. We are at LAMB and have seen what it can take to get a shift! It shouldn't be like this. We need to band together and advocate for more serious oversight by the PCSB and avenues for parents to have a say. Perhaps some changes in mandatory board makeups. Or in some other way - this can't keep happening at good schools. Check threads on here and you'll see it's happening at almost all the HRCS (and probably others too). 
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Agreed! It's all DC tax dollars and at the end of the day it's adults failing kids over and over again.[/quote]

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