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Two times now , handicapped spots ( which there are three people with passes) were blocked by APIC to hold an event for lunch activity. Those activities could have been on other side of lot and those vans could have entered the van entrance on other parking lot like the delivery trucks do. Instead cones were placed to block handicapped spot now twice this year... which is illegal... excuse was made that APIC contacted the handicap pass teacher,,, however there are two additional staff members that are paras with the same handicap pass and at the time, a school safety with a handicap pass need. Email sent to consider the other pareking lot for such events and ignored.

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Communication:  Commit to what you say/ AVOIDING STAFF

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Communication:  Commit to what you say/ AVOIDING STAFF

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APIC hasn't committed to what they say.
Ex.  1st and 4th grade staff stayed until 5pm on Friday last week to meet with APIC afterschool.  APIC had left without telling them or meeting with them.
Ex.  Let's have a 15 minute WHOLE groups session for parents at open house night... then emails everyone to hold their OWN open house there will be no WHOLE meet . ( once again avoiding greeting parents/ or meeting with staff)
Ex.  Let's talk as a response in emails to individuals but then never answers phone
Ex.  When multiple staff members suggested we start devising a back up plan if we don't hit third Friday numbers, met with resistance and No Were Good mentality. Even though just by walking halls we all recognized no where near the 380 on 8/27 we were told we were anticipating.
EX.  Avoids holding staff meetings, avoids talking at them...refers the converstaion to SST to conduct or uses " I'll check with my supervisors" on everything.
EX.  All of September not one Staff Meeting held... an "optional 10 minute one " was held for budget talk
( following the pattern of APIC same behavior with her 2020 position as APIC with us.... with not holding staff meetings to connect the communciation and clear up misconceptions .

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One Call / That's ALL Communication Concerns

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One Call / That's ALL Communication Concerns

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Staff are calling office and calling APIC office and not getting responses or answers..... what to do next?
Why isn't Chain of Command being UTILIZED or pulled on to step in on areas needing extra support for the day .
PHONES HAVE TO BE ANSWERED. in office or in APIC office... We cannot continue to have no contact when requesting support for a fight, unruly student, bathroom break due to para shortage, escort when needed. etf.... all when issues occur

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2 Teachers have been told to accept APIC suggestions for low student attendance moves or excess themselves. Isn't there a protocol for this, 1) ask for volunteers..... 2) based on senority and licensure?

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MPS's reopening Covid -19 Protocols are not being implemented.
(Example... 1.Parents find a way in the building all throughout the day.  Some with masks some not.  Appointments not being made.
2.  Isolation Room not being supervised.  Kids in there without supervision ( jumping on tables, trying to call their parents on school phone, at the windows that are blocked off yelling out to the children on tot lot). If isolation room isn't opened, then they are in office , contaminating 2 + symptoms in whole office space staff enters )
3. Students are constantly walking the halls without mask. reminders in announcements, but not being reinforced throughout the building.
4.Social distancing is not happening in the middle school overcrowded classroom, or during lunch breaks of which we designed three lunch periods, students are sharing food, constantly touching. There needs to be classroom and lunch room seating charts that are consistently followed and reinforced by staff on lunch duty.  The lunch schedule requires paras to come inside off playground once teachingt staff start their lunch duties...... this has not occured yet. despite an email of duties for paras to come in from outside once teaching staff come out to do their duty. Paras have not had a meeting with APIC to know of their expectations, duties etc..... this leaves cafeteria understaffed each day as paras mingle outside during recess that is monitored by teaching staff already.

What happened to the promise of sanitizing daily.
I think this is terrible, what I/we are expected to endure.
My health is just as important as our children, I really enjoy the work that I do here, serving students and families. I also have a family outside of my job, that I need to keep safe as well. I need answers as to what the plan is to keep me safe. Thank you.

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Building Safety Concens School times/schedules 

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Building Safety Concens School times/schedules 

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Being told in email and announcements to be outside ready for students intake at 7:15am.

Student contact s not suppose to occure before 7:25am - 2:25pm

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We have already had a parent attempt to jump a middle school student at outside dismissal.... APIC was  in office.
We have many parents upset they have to leave their cars parked on one way street to come retrieve their kids off the recess lot, as we were told to bring student there and wait in line at dismissal. Most parents are use to our original, drive thru method where we have students close to the one way street for pick up and send off. Versus park and get out and come retirieve off our recess playground lot.

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Teachers being told their colleagues are talking about them. Spreading false gossip. Seems to be the trend in email and conversations from APIC, which is unprofessional...

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Excessive announcements that disrupt learning

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Excessive announcements that disrupt learning

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Making too many announcements during the day, especially important things that should be communicated via email: l
ike initiatives to distribute chromebooks home with students after making a list of serial numbers.
another example.... student A your mom is here report to office.
example :  student a, student b, student c report to office
example: Miss so and so please call office

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Learning Team we were told we’ve had no positive Covid cases but the dashboard showed we had 2 cases.  We are now up to 4 confirmed on dashboard and 1 staff member.  Only one letter went home to parents or staff. Told rumor. Dashboard doesn't reflect rumors.... 4 in one week and people calling positive cases in isn't rumor! When do parents get notified ... after every positive case? Other suburbs get a notice home students have been exposed to a case and if was close contact get a follow up email..... where are our emails? Even teachers aren't notified if its cases from their room so they can disinfect!

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Nurse tells teachers that call her.... call covid coordinator for exposure / contact tracking info for your room..... and APIC tell us email nurse.
NO seating assignments were requested for lunch, busses, classrooms etc.
Such a Lack of consistent, clear, effective communication.  ex. 1. Still no reports of covid to our staff or families, despite what it says on dashboard with us have more than a few positive cases.
ex. 2 Teachers are calling the nurse to find out when to anticipate student to come back off quarantine... nurse has no data to show students where ever sent home from office ( as she leaves at 10:30am).

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What to do when being BULLIED by APIC? Question brought up in September by more than 2 staff members? Email bullying, or physical in person bullying????

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Greater transparency regarding staff absences. Respectfully we ask , as it gives staff info Needed for the adjustments of duties.... who will then cover lunch, who will then pick up bus students, or I'm running my own gym today etc.

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Building Safety Concerns......CBU... thing of the past or not?  please advise!

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Building Safety Concerns......CBU... thing of the past or not?  please advise!

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Do we have CBU units now? Don't we? Were told in January they were dissolved units and those teachers would now become resource.... so WHY do we still have full time CBU students and how is the CBU unit Teacher suppose to support their grade levels in all classrooms when they have permanent students assigned to them in their room?

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Communication Toxic/ Stale, Unwelcoming/ LOCKED out environment

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Communication Toxic/ Stale, Unwelcoming/ LOCKED out environment

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Who does staff contact for witnessing a Toxic Workplace? Who do we contact when we witness parents being blantantly ignored, locked out or refused to speak with APIC?

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Communication of threats.   Yet incidents keep occuring

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Communication of threats.   Yet incidents keep occuring

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Threats over PA to send students virtual for rest of year due to behaviors

Threats over PA to cancel outdoor recess for 5-8th grade if any further incidents occur.

Administrative Procedure 4.07 (5) (e) States:
Recess or other physical activity will NOT be denied as a form of punishment or cancelled for instructional make-up time.

Denial of recess is against Board Policy and procedure

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How is this the second year under same apic administration, and we still don't have a routine of CLEAR and CONCISE consistent communication, nor consitstent staff meetings where we hear from an Administrator and not our peer the SST???????????
Where is the consistent parent outreach.... ( many parents are saying they never received info APIC claims went out)  only receive our classroom info from Class DoJo etc.

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Symptomatic students being send back to classroom event thought teachers have witnessed 2 or more symptoms in classroom environment with children express their hot/ then cold... body aches, nasal drip, warm to touch, not feeling like themselves, tired, etc.   Being sent back.. to class.  What and when do symptoms warrant ISOLATION ROOM to be opened up and staffed?  Current directives are to call nurse in early am when she is here, or office... Then send said students down.
What happened to ESCORTING sick students?  What happened to ISOLATION room being opened ? for said sick students? Teachers are having to call home themselves to tell parents their child isn't feeling well and was sent back up.

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Cultivating Climate and Culture/ setting the tone

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Cultivating Climate and Culture/ setting the tone

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Zero efforts made for building climate, culture and rapport by APIC except for the 1/2 hour meet and greet done on 8/27/21 which was our one an only meeting for August and September.
The handbook/manual was rushed through in 15 minutes... on organizational day nothing explained in detail.  Complete pages were skipped.  Things were told to look at . Nothing was communicated through mouth ex/ lesson plans, discipline , chain of command, pbis etc. PLP etc.
No one has been asked to sign paperwork to say they heard/read the manual.  No one has been asked to accept a letter if they are being observed or not with Danielson framework this year fore evaluation.

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Zero allowance for staff voice/choice e.g committees

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APIC uses email to communicate, but not everyone gets the messages. We don't know when others or specials are absent for us to help out at recess, lunch, dismissal etc.... Only teacher informed if para is out, IF teacher asks.

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Dismissal.  Told to stand on line, but parents having to park car to come over to playground to intertwine with all students to get students to take home.
Bus students and walkers/picker uppers mixed together on playground. Not safe.  Already a parent/student fight.
Parents on one way street to pick up in their cars, hostile with the parked cars, having to leave their cars to go retrieve students etc. It use to be a one stop shop and pick up... this new way has cause tension, and chaos. Intermingling of parents and students, bussers etc.

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Staff Bathroom, there is rarely Paper towels! Still the old white rolly machine. When ask for paper towelings at office told "on order" since 9/2021...