School Without Walls Principal

[Anonymous]

The SWW principal appears to be a terrible administrator, a terrible speaker, and is not liked or respected by most students, parents, or teachers at the school. It is amazing that the top performing high school in the city is led by someone of this caliber. Does anyone know how she keeps her job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SWW principal appears to be a terrible administrator, a terrible speaker, and is not liked or respected by most students, parents, or teachers at the school. It is amazing that the top performing high school in the city is led by someone of this caliber. Does anyone know how she keeps her job?

Yikes. ::breaks out popcorn::

[Anonymous]

Sounds like the President of the United States.

[Anonymous]

As a person with a child about to start at Walls, I think it is terrible that the school has nothing to say for themselves other than "We have smart students."

There is no clear leadership, energy, special sauce, whatever. Just another DCPS high school that has the benefit of starting with mostly motivated kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a person with a child about to start at Walls, I think it is terrible that the school has nothing to say for themselves other than "We have smart students."

There is no clear leadership, energy, special sauce, whatever. Just another DCPS high school that has the benefit of starting with mostly motivated kids.

Pp here -- Point being is that I agree there should be a stronger, more dynamic principal at Walls, not just another Chancellor-favored functionary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SWW principal appears to be a terrible administrator, a terrible speaker, and is not liked or respected by most students, parents, or teachers at the school. It is amazing that the top performing high school in the city is led by someone of this caliber. Does anyone know how she keeps her job?

OP- Do you have a child at Walls? How have your experiences as a parent and your DC have been impacted by the principal? Are their any specific examples that you encountered and could share where the principal really negatively impacted the situation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SWW principal appears to be a terrible administrator, a terrible speaker, and is not liked or respected by most students, parents, or teachers at the school. It is amazing that the top performing high school in the city is led by someone of this caliber. Does anyone know how she keeps her job?

OP- Do you have a child at Walls? How have your experiences as a parent and your DC have been impacted by the principal? Are their any specific examples that you encountered and could share where the principal really negatively impacted the situation?

What about where she positively impacts a situation? Is "not a negative impact" the standard?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SWW principal appears to be a terrible administrator, a terrible speaker, and is not liked or respected by most students, parents, or teachers at the school. It is amazing that the top performing high school in the city is led by someone of this caliber. Does anyone know how she keeps her job?

OP- Do you have a child at Walls? How have your experiences as a parent and your DC have been impacted by the principal? Are their any specific examples that you encountered and could share where the principal really negatively impacted the situation?

What about where she positively impacts a situation? Is "not a negative impact" the standard?!

Yes. That’s Walls’s whole thing, they select students who will educate themselves and get out of the way. “Not a negative impact” is practically the mission statement of the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SWW principal appears to be a terrible administrator, a terrible speaker, and is not liked or respected by most students, parents, or teachers at the school. It is amazing that the top performing high school in the city is led by someone of this caliber. Does anyone know how she keeps her job?

OP- Do you have a child at Walls? How have your experiences as a parent and your DC have been impacted by the principal? Are their any specific examples that you encountered and could share where the principal really negatively impacted the situation?

Not OP, but I can say that the way the principal is running the school is one of the reasons we declined a seat at Walls.

[Anonymous]

When DCPS fired the dynamic Principal at Walls b/c he stood up to the Mayor - there was a clear message that the city sent to anyone in who might be interested in being a Principal at a school within DCPS.
...... you will be fired if you express a POV
...... having success as an administrator will not save your job.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to recruit Principal into DCPS? The firing made it materially more difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When DCPS fired the dynamic Principal at Walls b/c he stood up to the Mayor - there was a clear message that the city sent to anyone in who might be interested in being a Principal at a school within DCPS.
...... you will be fired if you express a POV
...... having success as an administrator will not save your job.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to recruit Principal into DCPS? The firing made it materially more difficult.

Yup. Central Office is your problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SWW principal appears to be a terrible administrator, a terrible speaker, and is not liked or respected by most students, parents, or teachers at the school. It is amazing that the top performing high school in the city is led by someone of this caliber. Does anyone know how she keeps her job?

OP- Do you have a child at Walls? How have your experiences as a parent and your DC have been impacted by the principal? Are their any specific examples that you encountered and could share where the principal really negatively impacted the situation?

What about where she positively impacts a situation? Is "not a negative impact" the standard?!

Yes. That’s Walls’s whole thing, they select students who will educate themselves and get out of the way. “Not a negative impact” is practically the mission statement of the school.

Can you please elaborate? What do you mean with “students who will educate themselves…”?
Can anyone give examples of what the principal is supposed to do and this current one is not doing to support the students?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When DCPS fired the dynamic Principal at Walls b/c he stood up to the Mayor - there was a clear message that the city sent to anyone in who might be interested in being a Principal at a school within DCPS.
...... you will be fired if you express a POV
...... having success as an administrator will not save your job.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to recruit Principal into DCPS? The firing made it materially more difficult.

they fired him because he was balking at even bring special needs kids back in person. It wasn't a great plan because it didn't go far enough to get more kids back (hybrid 50-50). But that wasn't his complaint. He thought it went to far. So yea, no sympathy. Kids were so incredibly damaged by those 18 months without school while adults were eating in restaurants etc. March 2020 to August 2021 many kids in this city has no in-person school. Greatest failure of our time second only to electing trump in 2024.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SWW principal appears to be a terrible administrator, a terrible speaker, and is not liked or respected by most students, parents, or teachers at the school. It is amazing that the top performing high school in the city is led by someone of this caliber. Does anyone know how she keeps her job?

OP- Do you have a child at Walls? How have your experiences as a parent and your DC have been impacted by the principal? Are their any specific examples that you encountered and could share where the principal really negatively impacted the situation?

Not OP, but I can say that the way the principal is running the school is one of the reasons we declined a seat at Walls.

In favor of private or another public?

[Anonymous]

My experiences with her were positive.