’Retaliatory culture’ alleged at Cambridge schoolSantos said the scores relate to what she called the school’s “retaliatory, toxic culture.” She says the culture explains the district’s opportunity gap and is “the reason why we’re not seeing [better] outcomes with students.”
Another Fletcher Maynard teacher who resigned in September cited the school’s divisive environment. Domenic Casselli, who taught Spanish at FMA for 11 years, said that the program had been thriving under the previous administration, but began to collapse under the leadership of current principal Bobby Tynes. Casselli said certain groups of parents have become “weaponized” by the FMA administration.
Cambridge Public Schools in the last few years has hired a superintendent that they got rid of after she hired a principal for Graham and Parks that got fired in Newton for creating a toxic environment, some 25-year-old with no experience as an executive, among other things. Then, they closed an entire school, now this. Everything is so amped up over there.