Shepherd principal resigning

[Anonymous]

The turnover for principals in DCPS as a school system is high. They do not get the support or autonomy that they need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The turnover for principals in DCPS as a school system is high. They do not get the support or autonomy that they need.

And recruiting good talent is impossible.

Many people I see coming in are from charters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She resigned before she was fired.
She never wanted to be interim.

Troll! She came in from outside of DCPS and applied for the position. She actually wanted to stay at Shepherd. I suspect she is exhausted because of COVID. She did a lot of heavy lifting including giving out her personal phone number to families during the pandemic. She was truly amazing during that time.

As a family who has only experienced Shepherd during the pandemic, I don’t think we could have asked for a better principal. I was so sad to see her announcement, but not surprised. The last two years would have burned anyone out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The turnover for principals in DCPS as a school system is high. They do not get the support or autonomy that they need.

And recruiting good talent is impossible.

Many people I see coming in are from charters.

Really because I haven’t seen that. Why don’t you give some examples of this?

What I see is DCPS tries to recruit people from within their system or promote people within their system because they have such difficulty recruiting from outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The turnover for principals in DCPS as a school system is high. They do not get the support or autonomy that they need.

+1000

They have no ability to make decisions. And then get blamed for not meeting whatever arbitrary goal DCPS sets. It’s really a terrible central office to work for. Those people really do just put up roadblocks constantly. And some are condescending while not setting foot in a school for years.

[Anonymous]

I believe that April 30 is the deadline to either sign contracts or declare intent to stay for 22-23. That includes teachers, but they don't get to make fanciful announcements. So it's absolutely reasonable that you'd have lots of resignations in April. It gives the school time to screen and hopefully hire replacements by August, assuming people want the jobs.

[Anonymous]

You won’t believe it until it happens, but DCPS will have to call in the national guard next year to staff the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She resigned before she was fired.
She never wanted to be interim.

Troll! She came in from outside of DCPS and applied for the position. She actually wanted to stay at Shepherd. I suspect she is exhausted because of COVID. She did a lot of heavy lifting including giving out her personal phone number to families during the pandemic. She was truly amazing during that time.

As a family who has only experienced Shepherd during the pandemic, I don’t think we could have asked for a better principal. I was so sad to see her announcement, but not surprised. The last two years would have burned anyone out.

I blame WTU. They were the force that kept schools closed for the 2020-2021 school year, which resulted in learning loss, behavioral and emotional issues for kids, and a breakdown of parent/teacher relationships because many parents wanted their kids in school. Plus the union demanded a bunch of covid security theater protocols that created a lot of extra, unnecessary work for teachers. Of course it's harder to lead and teach now. I'm so angry because the teachers pushed to keep schools closed, demonized parents who wanted schools open, and now they're crying it's hard to teach due to the issues they created and are leaving.

Many teachers at Shepherd were very vocally opposed to returning to school, and they made it very difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She resigned before she was fired.
She never wanted to be interim.

Troll! She came in from outside of DCPS and applied for the position. She actually wanted to stay at Shepherd. I suspect she is exhausted because of COVID. She did a lot of heavy lifting including giving out her personal phone number to families during the pandemic. She was truly amazing during that time.

As a family who has only experienced Shepherd during the pandemic, I don’t think we could have asked for a better principal. I was so sad to see her announcement, but not surprised. The last two years would have burned anyone out.

I blame WTU. They were the force that kept schools closed for the 2020-2021 school year, which resulted in learning loss, behavioral and emotional issues for kids, and a breakdown of parent/teacher relationships because many parents wanted their kids in school. Plus the union demanded a bunch of covid security theater protocols that created a lot of extra, unnecessary work for teachers. Of course it's harder to lead and teach now. I'm so angry because the teachers pushed to keep schools closed, demonized parents who wanted schools open, and now they're crying it's hard to teach due to the issues they created and are leaving.

Many teachers at Shepherd were very vocally opposed to returning to school, and they made it very difficult.

#pettyracismandmisognyisthebreakfastofchampions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She resigned before she was fired.
She never wanted to be interim.

Troll! She came in from outside of DCPS and applied for the position. She actually wanted to stay at Shepherd. I suspect she is exhausted because of COVID. She did a lot of heavy lifting including giving out her personal phone number to families during the pandemic. She was truly amazing during that time.

As a family who has only experienced Shepherd during the pandemic, I don’t think we could have asked for a better principal. I was so sad to see her announcement, but not surprised. The last two years would have burned anyone out.

I blame WTU. They were the force that kept schools closed for the 2020-2021 school year, which resulted in learning loss, behavioral and emotional issues for kids, and a breakdown of parent/teacher relationships because many parents wanted their kids in school. Plus the union demanded a bunch of covid security theater protocols that created a lot of extra, unnecessary work for teachers. Of course it's harder to lead and teach now. I'm so angry because the teachers pushed to keep schools closed, demonized parents who wanted schools open, and now they're crying it's hard to teach due to the issues they created and are leaving.

Many teachers at Shepherd were very vocally opposed to returning to school, and they made it very difficult.

As a parent, I blame other parents. The buck stops with parents. Parents are responsible for their children, not schools, not teachers, not the mayor. Have a good look in the mirror first before blaming a union. Maybe even look around you and ask yourself was it worth it? My spouse and I had a lovely time during the pandemic being at home with our ES aged kids in our small condo. Sorry you had a bad experience. We made it work to the best of our abilities and we are not looking back in regret. It's always sad when a principal leaves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She resigned before she was fired.
She never wanted to be interim.

Troll! She came in from outside of DCPS and applied for the position. She actually wanted to stay at Shepherd. I suspect she is exhausted because of COVID. She did a lot of heavy lifting including giving out her personal phone number to families during the pandemic. She was truly amazing during that time.

As a family who has only experienced Shepherd during the pandemic, I don’t think we could have asked for a better principal. I was so sad to see her announcement, but not surprised. The last two years would have burned anyone out.

I blame WTU. They were the force that kept schools closed for the 2020-2021 school year, which resulted in learning loss, behavioral and emotional issues for kids, and a breakdown of parent/teacher relationships because many parents wanted their kids in school. Plus the union demanded a bunch of covid security theater protocols that created a lot of extra, unnecessary work for teachers. Of course it's harder to lead and teach now. I'm so angry because the teachers pushed to keep schools closed, demonized parents who wanted schools open, and now they're crying it's hard to teach due to the issues they created and are leaving.

Many teachers at Shepherd were very vocally opposed to returning to school, and they made it very difficult.

As a parent, I blame other parents. The buck stops with parents. Parents are responsible for their children, not schools, not teachers, not the mayor. Have a good look in the mirror first before blaming a union. Maybe even look around you and ask yourself was it worth it? My spouse and I had a lovely time during the pandemic being at home with our ES aged kids in our small condo. Sorry you had a bad experience. We made it work to the best of our abilities and we are not looking back in regret. It's always sad when a principal leaves.

I’m not pp and I don’t blame the union, but man it really grinds my gears when someone flaunts what a nice time they had during the pandemic. Could you be any more tone deaf?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She resigned before she was fired.
She never wanted to be interim.

Troll! She came in from outside of DCPS and applied for the position. She actually wanted to stay at Shepherd. I suspect she is exhausted because of COVID. She did a lot of heavy lifting including giving out her personal phone number to families during the pandemic. She was truly amazing during that time.

As a family who has only experienced Shepherd during the pandemic, I don’t think we could have asked for a better principal. I was so sad to see her announcement, but not surprised. The last two years would have burned anyone out.

I blame WTU. They were the force that kept schools closed for the 2020-2021 school year, which resulted in learning loss, behavioral and emotional issues for kids, and a breakdown of parent/teacher relationships because many parents wanted their kids in school. Plus the union demanded a bunch of covid security theater protocols that created a lot of extra, unnecessary work for teachers. Of course it's harder to lead and teach now. I'm so angry because the teachers pushed to keep schools closed, demonized parents who wanted schools open, and now they're crying it's hard to teach due to the issues they created and are leaving.

Many teachers at Shepherd were very vocally opposed to returning to school, and they made it very difficult.

Do you just copy/paste the same post every time you come to a thread? And then include school name where applicable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry she's leaving, although we're no longer at Shepherd. The timing is considerate though as it allows time to select from the best applicants. Waiting until later to resign would be the school only gets the left over applicants who other schools didn't select.

It's hard to be a DCPS Principal. It's a 24/7 job for low pay considering the education and work hours. The Principals get it from above and below. DCPS doesn't have their back and the teachers union makes it very difficult to manage poor performers (especially when they can't trust DCPS to support them).

It blows my mind that most DCPS Principals make less than $150K. I could get a really easy, 40 hour a week job for $150K. We need to compensate them better.

I don’t think they make less than DCPS

Lol that’s ASSISTANT principals, principals make $120k-210k

They also have the ability to get a $20k-35k bonus.

And you must not be in education, DCPS makes it very easy for a principal to punish any performer, they are able to get rid of ANY teacher in 1.5 years. The majority of teachers do not win their case against admin if they do not agree with their evaluation score.


It’s interesting to me how you feel principals are the main thing driving a school, it is teachers not admin. That goes for almost any job. Not to say principals are not important and don’t deserve more but to say ‘the teachers union’ makes it difficult is an absolutely not true. The one who makes it difficult is DCPS and Bowser.

[Anonymous]

The AP is out, too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The turnover for principals in DCPS as a school system is high. They do not get the support or autonomy that they need.

And recruiting good talent is impossible.

Many people I see coming in are from charters.

Really because I haven’t seen that. Why don’t you give some examples of this?

What I see is DCPS tries to recruit people from within their system or promote people within their system because they have such difficulty recruiting from outside.

Not PP but the Shepherd principal (topic of thread) is from Charter.