Melissa Kim is leaving Deal
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Anonymous
Is the interim principal likely to stay and be promoted? |
Anonymous
| Is there a new principal? Did the interim principal get the promotion? |
jsteele
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Kim doesn't officially leave until December. There has been no permanent selection yet. |
Anonymous
| The interim principal has "taken" over since her announcement...he leads the newsletters etc. |
Anonymous
| She's fulltime at the new gig. |
Anonymous
| My child will be going to Deal next year. I remember the school having several asst. principals. Which one is serving as the interim principal? Will he or she become permanent?The sixth grade principal had a lot of energy. |
Anonymous
| The school has an assistant principal for each grade and then there's a main one for the entire school which was Kim, but now Albright which was the assistant pincipal to her. |
Anonymous
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Kim is at the new gig part time and at Deal part time. She supervises Albright behind the scenes until her official departure sometime in December.
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Anonymous
| You can't deny her work ethic. It will be missed. |
Anonymous
Do you know if anyone else ie. teachers or admin are leaving? I'm hearing that school is having a little more discilpline issues. Are any parents on the search commitee for a new principal or are they going to promote within? |
Anonymous
| There will be a search committee. The interim is a going to be one of the candidates. |
Anonymous
| I find it amazing that more people are not upset with the timing of her departure. It's considering bad form, even unprofessional, to leave a school during the school year, for teachers and for principals. She not only left after a few months, but gave the impression, if I am not mistaken, that she would be at the school through December. Now she's only at Deal part-time? Can anyone explain the muted response? It's also the kind of departure that drives people from DCPS ... it accentuates the uncertainty factor. |
Anonymous
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21:35, Her timing was generous. She had the job offer in the summer and held off on leaving until now so that the school and the students would have a smoother transition. Anyone else, who is not as dedicated, would have taken the job in the summer and left the school in a lurch for the beginning of school.
In her written statement she said that she was staying on as coach and advisor for the transition until December. Take your negativity elsewhere. The Deal community is grateful for the smooth transition she engineered. |
Anonymous
What kind of organization waits until August to offer a principal a job? How responsible is it for a principal to be accept a job in August? The responsible thing to do would have been to accept in March, then finish out the year, giving DCPS enough time to find a suitable replacement. She may not be a villain, but she's not a hero either. She's an opportunist. |
Anonymous
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I think it was interesting that it was announced in October, right after the head count.
And from what I hear, she's full time at the new job. The "transition" is for show to keep parents at Deal from panicking. Best part is her new job is to "turn around" low-performing charter schools. Wasn't the whole point of charters that after you fail for several years, you get CLOSED. Instead large sums of money and time are going to be spent on schools had no business being chartered in the first place. |