For two days this week, parents and students lined the sidewalk outside the school’s Northwest Washington J.F. Cook campus demanding answers from school leaders.
Parents at D.C.’s Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter say too many of the school’s teachers are leaving, their students aren’t getting the quality education they deserve, disciplinary incidents have increased, and school administrators are ignoring their concerns.For two days this week, parents and students lined the sidewalk outside the school’s Northwest Washington J.F. Cook campus with signs calling on leaders to listen, correct the problems and to “stop gaslighting us.
School leaders said they have been meeting with concerned parents — primarily those of third-grade students “The kids are getting hurt, they’re coming home with bruises, they’re interacting with each other in very inappropriate ways,” said Jacqueline Walters, a parent of a third-grader. “On top of that, there’s no instruction going on.”Families have made several requests to leadership, including a meeting with the school’s executive director, board chair and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, the district’s school governing agency.
on par with other charter schools in the city, which also saw 26 percent of their teachers leave their jobs or change schools between the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years,“We know that midyear staff resignations are disruptive and that long-term substitutes are not what anyone wants for our students,” Mundo Verde officials said.
For Brett Cloninger-West, 53, the issues at Mundo Verde were so severe, he pulled his daughter out of Mundo Verde after last school year. He said she lost five teachers — two English teachers, two Spanish teachers and an after-school teacher — over the course of her second-grade year.
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