Oakridge Teacher Breakdowns

[Anonymous]

This is my first experience at Oakridge as a staff member this year. And, what I notice is that Dr Wright always leaves before the AP, sidelines anyone she doesn't like (apparently the new AP is one of them) and is invested in not fixing the school. The SPED services are a mess and minimal communication about our priorities at the school. We never had a beginning of the year plan for before school started (meetings and such), and it took until January to have a conversation with administration about concerns over SPED services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why won’t the county take action to fix the hot mess?

See the long thread on the Failed Principal to Central Office pipeline

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why won’t the county take action to fix the hot mess?

See the long thread on the Failed Principal to Central Office pipeline

Interestingly the AP at Oakridge went to Syphax after being a principal and was moved back down to AP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is my first experience at Oakridge as a staff member this year. And, what I notice is that Dr Wright always leaves before the AP, sidelines anyone she doesn't like (apparently the new AP is one of them) and is invested in not fixing the school. The SPED services are a mess and minimal communication about our priorities at the school. We never had a beginning of the year plan for before school started (meetings and such), and it took until January to have a conversation with administration about concerns over SPED services.

What do you mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why won’t the county take action to fix the hot mess?

See the long thread on the Failed Principal to Central Office pipeline

Interestingly the AP at Oakridge went to Syphax after being a principal and was moved back down to AP

When was this, and where are they now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why won’t the county take action to fix the hot mess?

See the long thread on the Failed Principal to Central Office pipeline

Interestingly the AP at Oakridge went to Syphax after being a principal and was moved back down to AP

When was this, and where are they now?

They are at oakridge now, spent a year or two at Syphax. Was principal at Abingdon before

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why won’t the county take action to fix the hot mess?

There is often a cohort of students that consistently demonstrate behavioral issues and cause classroom disruptions. The schools (including Oakridge) will often not discipline or remove these students, instead choosing a "restorative justice" type of approach, which does nothing. The teachers and other students continue to have to deal with the disruptive kids. APS dealt with lawsuits in the past where it was shown that some demographic groups were disciplined more often than others. As a result, APS decided to stop disciplining. Voila -- the problem of inequitable discipline has disappeared.

APS has NOT stopped disciplining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why won’t the county take action to fix the hot mess?

There is often a cohort of students that consistently demonstrate behavioral issues and cause classroom disruptions. The schools (including Oakridge) will often not discipline or remove these students, instead choosing a "restorative justice" type of approach, which does nothing. The teachers and other students continue to have to deal with the disruptive kids. APS dealt with lawsuits in the past where it was shown that some demographic groups were disciplined more often than others. As a result, APS decided to stop disciplining. Voila -- the problem of inequitable discipline has disappeared.

APS has NOT stopped disciplining.

It’s very minimal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why won’t the county take action to fix the hot mess?

There is often a cohort of students that consistently demonstrate behavioral issues and cause classroom disruptions. The schools (including Oakridge) will often not discipline or remove these students, instead choosing a "restorative justice" type of approach, which does nothing. The teachers and other students continue to have to deal with the disruptive kids. APS dealt with lawsuits in the past where it was shown that some demographic groups were disciplined more often than others. As a result, APS decided to stop disciplining. Voila -- the problem of inequitable discipline has disappeared.

APS has NOT stopped disciplining.

It’s very minimal

+1,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why won’t the county take action to fix the hot mess?

There is often a cohort of students that consistently demonstrate behavioral issues and cause classroom disruptions. The schools (including Oakridge) will often not discipline or remove these students, instead choosing a "restorative justice" type of approach, which does nothing. The teachers and other students continue to have to deal with the disruptive kids. APS dealt with lawsuits in the past where it was shown that some demographic groups were disciplined more often than others. As a result, APS decided to stop disciplining. Voila -- the problem of inequitable discipline has disappeared.

APS has NOT stopped disciplining.

It’s very minimal

It's not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why won’t the county take action to fix the hot mess?

There is often a cohort of students that consistently demonstrate behavioral issues and cause classroom disruptions. The schools (including Oakridge) will often not discipline or remove these students, instead choosing a "restorative justice" type of approach, which does nothing. The teachers and other students continue to have to deal with the disruptive kids. APS dealt with lawsuits in the past where it was shown that some demographic groups were disciplined more often than others. As a result, APS decided to stop disciplining. Voila -- the problem of inequitable discipline has disappeared.

APS has NOT stopped disciplining.

It’s very minimal

It's not.

I witnessed Dr. Wright’s “discipline” during their Spring Fling. Very minimal, indeed (for certain demographics anyway).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one who calls a child a crybaby should be employed in an elementary school. It’s amazing that tapes of her rampages haven’t been leaked yet.

We’re at a different elementary school and that happened with our teacher. There were recordings early on. It took most of the year to see any action taken. They were not
removed from the school. They did get put on leave from teaching our class though. It’s appalling that they’re still in the school system and specifically still in our school.


They must be so understaffed. There are many teachers that are completely burnt out that should not be near children. I will say as well, there are some phenomenal teachers that are taking beautiful care of our kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why won’t the county take action to fix the hot mess?

There is often a cohort of students that consistently demonstrate behavioral issues and cause classroom disruptions. The schools (including Oakridge) will often not discipline or remove these students, instead choosing a "restorative justice" type of approach, which does nothing. The teachers and other students continue to have to deal with the disruptive kids. APS dealt with lawsuits in the past where it was shown that some demographic groups were disciplined more often than others. As a result, APS decided to stop disciplining. Voila -- the problem of inequitable discipline has disappeared.

APS has NOT stopped disciplining.

It’s very minimal

It's not.

I witnessed Dr. Wright’s “discipline” during their Spring Fling. Very minimal, indeed (for certain demographics anyway).

That’s one principal at one event. Hardly representative of all APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one who calls a child a crybaby should be employed in an elementary school. It’s amazing that tapes of her rampages haven’t been leaked yet.

We’re at a different elementary school and that happened with our teacher. There were recordings early on. It took most of the year to see any action taken. They were not
removed from the school. They did get put on leave from teaching our class though. It’s appalling that they’re still in the school system and specifically still in our school.


They must be so understaffed. There are many teachers that are completely burnt out that should not be near children. I will say as well, there are some phenomenal teachers that are taking beautiful care of our kids.

It happened twice in our elementary school years ago. I could not believe the teachers did not lose their jobs. One was gone for a while (made to go out on leave?) then came back. The other was moved to a different APS school. The principal was terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why won’t the county take action to fix the hot mess?

There is often a cohort of students that consistently demonstrate behavioral issues and cause classroom disruptions. The schools (including Oakridge) will often not discipline or remove these students, instead choosing a "restorative justice" type of approach, which does nothing. The teachers and other students continue to have to deal with the disruptive kids. APS dealt with lawsuits in the past where it was shown that some demographic groups were disciplined more often than others. As a result, APS decided to stop disciplining. Voila -- the problem of inequitable discipline has disappeared.

APS has NOT stopped disciplining.

It’s very minimal

It's not.

I witnessed Dr. Wright’s “discipline” during their Spring Fling. Very minimal, indeed (for certain demographics anyway).

That’s one principal at one event. Hardly representative of all APS.

She’s the principal at Oakridge, which is… what this entire thread is about. Go to bed, sweetie.