Paramount Charter school parents and teachers are outraged at the mismanagement of the school

"I just picked them up one day and all their teachers were gone," Brooks said, still incredulous. "I'm looking around like, 'OK, where's your teacher? Where's your teacher?' Nobody had a teacher."

Three now-former Paramount teachers who, fearing retaliation, spoke on condition of anonymity said about 20 teachers lost their jobs, many in a mass firing, the others resigning. "One by one, she would call everybody in and they were getting fired, fired, fired," one teacher said.



One said that after the mass firings, she was called into the room and told that the school wanted to keep her, but that if she wanted to keep her job she would have to take a cut in pay from $36,000 to $30,000 and that promised benefits, including health care, would be cut.



The Paramount Charter School website proudly notes how charter schools are free of those pesky regulations that drag down traditional public schools:

