Does your principla do this (or other things you know)?

[Anonymous]

Kung-pow...what does it mean if you know?

Kung-pow chicken, in Mandarin, is "gongbao jiding". If memory serves, the characters for "gongbao" mean palace guard or something like that. So it means "palace guard chicken," a dish that an old official used to like...

[Anonymous]

My principal is a contol freak and naive to the system but soon DCPS will have her acting like a stepford principal. I just love her and like her energy but knowing the sitcom of DCPS it will all end the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one has complained? I'm surprised to see this is tolerated.

Anonymous wrote:This is a YY parent. Don't know/think if anything was said. There was no announcement.

It took parents quite some time to find out she IS the mother of the principal. I ran into her at Target one day recently with the principal's children and only then I figure out she is the grandmother.

Maybe people/parents are afraid of speaking up/being retaliated against at Yu Ying that they are not going to put their neck out for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Kung-pow...what does it mean if you know?

Kung-pow chicken, in Mandarin, is "gongbao jiding". If memory serves, the characters for "gongbao" mean palace guard or something like that. So it means "palace guard chicken," a dish that an old official used to like...

Impressive However, if you go to China and ask for this dish in Beijing or Shanghai or places where Mandarin is spoken they won't know what you're talking about. It's a chinese-american dish invented by Cantonese speaking immigrants.

[Anonymous]

Not to take the thread too far off topic here, but I've ordered "gongbao jiding" many times in Beijing. Usually made with lots of little dried red peppers and cashews. It's spicy and delicious!

[Anonymous]

Re: 10:15 - why would parents be so afraid? What kind of retaliation are they afraid of?

[Anonymous]

"Janney principal doesn't get along with teachers and may be leaving in a year or two. (rumor?)"

Notice how many teachers have left since she started?

[Anonymous]

I am no fan of the YY principal but I think it's nice that her mother is willing to work at the school and help her out. She spends a lot of hours at that school and has three children there. I just assumed she was primarily around to help her daughter - something I totally understand. I don't think she was desperately trying to be the secretary at the school.

[Anonymous]

Kind of convenient to have your mother replace a good receptionist who is also a YY parent and has children to take care of, etc.

It's not about the mother or her not trying to be the secretary. It's about what they did to put the new receptionist (who happens to be the principal's mother) there. Your theory would work if it didn't make the principal look so stupid, arrogant, and unethical...

At best there's got be a conflict of interest or something like that.

[Anonymous]

Who did she replace?

[Anonymous]

I think it is allowed as long as the daughter is not the direct supervisor. At my school the family tree is so strong, people are surprised at the non-relationships.

[Anonymous]

Is it illegal to hire your own mother to replace a popluar receptionist? Maybe not.

Is it ethical? Debatable.

Does it make the principal and administration look bad and arrogant? You bet.

What is the reason they did what they did? Only they can answer this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to take the thread too far off topic here, but I've ordered "gongbao jiding" many times in Beijing. Usually made with lots of little dried red peppers and cashews. It's spicy and delicious!

Had it many times in Taipei also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it is allowed as long as the daughter is not the direct supervisor. At my school the family tree is so strong, people are surprised at the non-relationships.

Rampant nepotism at charter schools.

[Anonymous]

PP, agreeing wholeheartedly. Although these schools Yu Ying included dont see a problem at all. Shameless!