Taylor Elem — Reading specialist change petition

[Anonymous]

This made ArlingtonNow so figure it’s okay to talk https://www.arlnow.com/2022/05/02/morning-notes-2890/

We are current kinder parents but don’t really involve much with school outside pickup and drop off from extended day.

Is there some kind of tension between the new principal and the teaching faculty? What is going on? We are on waitlist for HTS and may get off it in year or two, should we be considering that?

[Anonymous]

I think your larger concern should be that parents are dealing with what they consider an outrage by creating a change.org petition. Not by getting whatever information they can about the decision, communicating with other parents, making their findings and requests public, and going to school board members' office hours.

Nope. Change.org petition, the ultimate in acting like you're doing something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think your larger concern should be that parents are dealing with what they consider an outrage by creating a change.org petition. Not by getting whatever information they can about the decision, communicating with other parents, making their findings and requests public, and going to school board members' office hours.

Nope. Change.org petition, the ultimate in acting like you're doing something.

From what I have heard parents and other staff are also going to the school board and via the central office. I think this is just one aspect.

[Anonymous]

Oh wow - thats awkward...

[Anonymous]

The Taylor parents seemed up in arms about the new prinicpal from the start. Why? She came from a South Arlington school and is Hispanic. So RIGHT away they started posting how they didn't want "too much" Spanish language education in their school and how they thought she wouldn't know math because she came from an Immersion school? It was pretty racist crap. You can probably find it on this board!

I don't really know what kind of job she's doing at Taylor. Maybe she is a terrible principal. But I also know there were groups of parents very upset about her being given the position, before she even started, and it seemed heavily race driven.

I don't know what happened with the beloved reading teacher, but I would take this parents word for it with a HUGE HANDFUL of salt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think your larger concern should be that parents are dealing with what they consider an outrage by creating a change.org petition. Not by getting whatever information they can about the decision, communicating with other parents, making their findings and requests public, and going to school board members' office hours.

Nope. Change.org petition, the ultimate in acting like you're doing something.

From what I have heard parents and other staff are also going to the school board and via the central office. I think this is just one aspect.

It was on AEM last week, too. Not sure if the discussion is still around. We are not at Taylor and only casually know a few families who are, so there's no dog in this fight. It is not at all uncommon for internal applicants for principal who are unsuccessful to then leave the school for another position. I don't know if it is always voluntary, but it isn't hard to see why it happens – from both sides of the equation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Taylor parents seemed up in arms about the new prinicpal from the start. Why? She came from a South Arlington school and is Hispanic. So RIGHT away they started posting how they didn't want "too much" Spanish language education in their school and how they thought she wouldn't know math because she came from an Immersion school? It was pretty racist crap. You can probably find it on this board!

I don't really know what kind of job she's doing at Taylor. Maybe she is a terrible principal. But I also know there were groups of parents very upset about her being given the position, before she even started, and it seemed heavily race driven.

I don't know what happened with the beloved reading teacher, but I would take this parents word for it with a HUGE HANDFUL of salt.

Yikes! Wonder if these same parents are also up in arms about the removal of language options in 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Taylor parents seemed up in arms about the new prinicpal from the start. Why? She came from a South Arlington school and is Hispanic. So RIGHT away they started posting how they didn't want "too much" Spanish language education in their school and how they thought she wouldn't know math because she came from an Immersion school? It was pretty racist crap. You can probably find it on this board!

I don't really know what kind of job she's doing at Taylor. Maybe she is a terrible principal. But I also know there were groups of parents very upset about her being given the position, before she even started, and it seemed heavily race driven.

I don't know what happened with the beloved reading teacher, but I would take this parents word for it with a HUGE HANDFUL of salt.

Was she the principal at Claremont? I thought she was very well regarded there and ran a tight ship

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Taylor parents seemed up in arms about the new prinicpal from the start. Why? She came from a South Arlington school and is Hispanic. So RIGHT away they started posting how they didn't want "too much" Spanish language education in their school and how they thought she wouldn't know math because she came from an Immersion school? It was pretty racist crap. You can probably find it on this board!

I don't really know what kind of job she's doing at Taylor. Maybe she is a terrible principal. But I also know there were groups of parents very upset about her being given the position, before she even started, and it seemed heavily race driven.

I don't know what happened with the beloved reading teacher, but I would take this parents word for it with a HUGE HANDFUL of salt.

Ok. The beloved reading teacher is AA, but sure- it’s all driven by racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Taylor parents seemed up in arms about the new prinicpal from the start. Why? She came from a South Arlington school and is Hispanic. So RIGHT away they started posting how they didn't want "too much" Spanish language education in their school and how they thought she wouldn't know math because she came from an Immersion school? It was pretty racist crap. You can probably find it on this board!

I don't really know what kind of job she's doing at Taylor. Maybe she is a terrible principal. But I also know there were groups of parents very upset about her being given the position, before she even started, and it seemed heavily race driven.

I don't know what happened with the beloved reading teacher, but I would take this parents word for it with a HUGE HANDFUL of salt.

Ok. The beloved reading teacher is AA, but sure- it’s all driven by racism.

Also ridiculous because those "rich, white, N Arlington" schools are some of the only ones that offer afterschool spanish enrichment programs, which are highly desirable by families. Stop applying culture war TPs to every scenario. Time to take the tin hat off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Taylor parents seemed up in arms about the new prinicpal from the start. Why? She came from a South Arlington school and is Hispanic. So RIGHT away they started posting how they didn't want "too much" Spanish language education in their school and how they thought she wouldn't know math because she came from an Immersion school? It was pretty racist crap. You can probably find it on this board!

I don't really know what kind of job she's doing at Taylor. Maybe she is a terrible principal. But I also know there were groups of parents very upset about her being given the position, before she even started, and it seemed heavily race driven.

I don't know what happened with the beloved reading teacher, but I would take this parents word for it with a HUGE HANDFUL of salt.

Was she the principal at Claremont? I thought she was very well regarded there and ran a tight ship

She was the AP at Claremont. We were new the one year we overlapped. I didn't have any complaints, but I also didn't need to interact with her much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Taylor parents seemed up in arms about the new prinicpal from the start. Why? She came from a South Arlington school and is Hispanic. So RIGHT away they started posting how they didn't want "too much" Spanish language education in their school and how they thought she wouldn't know math because she came from an Immersion school? It was pretty racist crap. You can probably find it on this board!

I don't really know what kind of job she's doing at Taylor. Maybe she is a terrible principal. But I also know there were groups of parents very upset about her being given the position, before she even started, and it seemed heavily race driven.

I don't know what happened with the beloved reading teacher, but I would take this parents word for it with a HUGE HANDFUL of salt.

Ok. The beloved reading teacher is AA, but sure- it’s all driven by racism.

I said I had no idea what happened with the reading teacher.

But the racist reaction to IG becoming principal was certainly a thing. They can both be true (racist reaction and reading teacher being removed having nothing to do with racism). So.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Taylor parents seemed up in arms about the new prinicpal from the start. Why? She came from a South Arlington school and is Hispanic. So RIGHT away they started posting how they didn't want "too much" Spanish language education in their school and how they thought she wouldn't know math because she came from an Immersion school? It was pretty racist crap. You can probably find it on this board!

I don't really know what kind of job she's doing at Taylor. Maybe she is a terrible principal. But I also know there were groups of parents very upset about her being given the position, before she even started, and it seemed heavily race driven.

I don't know what happened with the beloved reading teacher, but I would take this parents word for it with a HUGE HANDFUL of salt.

Ok. The beloved reading teacher is AA, but sure- it’s all driven by racism.

I said I had no idea what happened with the reading teacher.

But the racist reaction to IG becoming principal was certainly a thing. They can both be true (racist reaction and reading teacher being removed having nothing to do with racism). So.

Parents wanted the internal AA candidate to be principal. It wasn't racist, just stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Taylor parents seemed up in arms about the new prinicpal from the start. Why? She came from a South Arlington school and is Hispanic. So RIGHT away they started posting how they didn't want "too much" Spanish language education in their school and how they thought she wouldn't know math because she came from an Immersion school? It was pretty racist crap. You can probably find it on this board!

I don't really know what kind of job she's doing at Taylor. Maybe she is a terrible principal. But I also know there were groups of parents very upset about her being given the position, before she even started, and it seemed heavily race driven.

I don't know what happened with the beloved reading teacher, but I would take this parents word for it with a HUGE HANDFUL of salt.

Ok. The beloved reading teacher is AA, but sure- it’s all driven by racism.

I said I had no idea what happened with the reading teacher.

But the racist reaction to IG becoming principal was certainly a thing. They can both be true (racist reaction and reading teacher being removed having nothing to do with racism). So.

Granted, this is our first year at Taylor, but I have heard no parents talk badly about the principal. And I talk to a lot of parents. And no one i talk to knows anything about the reading specialist petition. So please stop painting us all with such a broad brush. I'm truly baffled when I come on here and read these accusations.

[Anonymous]

We're at Claremont and she was great as AP there.