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Anonymous
You know Navy's SOL is boosted by influx of AAP students right? Without AAP Navy is just an average school. |
Anonymous
| My child was sad when I told them the principal is leaving. |
Anonymous
| To any future teachers reading these threads, please keep in mind that the comments—whether positive or negative—come from a very small handful of Navy community members. Yes, it’s fun to read the unhinged comments and text each other but these opinions do not reflect the majority of our community. To future Navy staff and parents of Navy students, I encourage you not to base decisions on discussions found in anonymous forums where misinformation, lack of accountability, and extreme views can dominate a discussion. |
Anonymous
| This disclaimer might be more believable if the school community hadn’t driven out the new principal in a matter of months. |
Anonymous
My kid isn't in AAP and scored pass advanced on his SOLs so I think we will be ok. I'll take my average school, thank you. |
Anonymous
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More than one thing can be true. Some parents have been over the top with *how* they complained and spoke to admin. (Note I am not saying there’s been no basis to complain; just that the manner in which it was done was not always appropriate). At the same time, there were definitely some things that were mismanaged and not handled well in ways that affected staff morale and willingness to continue at Navy. I’m not going to say more about that, but if you knew some of the specifics i think many of you would agree. To blame this all on one party or the other is just not an accurate take on the situation.
It wasn’t the right fit, and the feeling is probably mutual at this point. All we can do is see what happens next. I agree with the previous poster that sniping back and forth on here does absolutely nothing to make good, experienced administrators and teachers want to work and stay at Navy. |
Anonymous
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The principal was great. I adored him and it's a shame he's leaving. Our APs, especially SJ, are horrendous. I fear for the school if promoted.
- A Navy teacher |
Anonymous
Haha to outing yourself! |
Anonymous
There is only one school that sends kids to the Navy AAP Center and it's only a handful of students, right? Navy overinflates its own AAP numbers (e.g. it's surprisingly easy to get into AAP there) because it's an AAP Center. |
Anonymous
| When are they going to get rid of the AAP Center and just turn Navy into an LLIV school? Crossfield has its own AAP program, why do people send their kids to Navy? It's so strange. |
Anonymous
Seriously, no one wants the crossfield people. Stay at your own school. |
Anonymous
+1 you know if they can’t find anyone they will promote the APs. Then things will be even worse. Bravo, crazy parents! |
Anonymous
They won’t bc LLIV sucks compared to a center. And with LLIV you’d have a lot more busybody parents trying to get principal placed in the program. It would be beyond bloated. |
Anonymous
SJ sucks. Can she go instead? Respectfully, some of you teachers are a tad bonkers. You keep giving us parents extremely unsubtle hints that admin is incompetent and you want us to act. We just want our kids to have teachers and will complain on your behalf if you keep dropping us unsubtle hints. Make up your minds on what you want, please. Thank you. |
Anonymous
| I’ll like to add that the above supporters and detractors of the principal should not be taken as the overall majority opinion of the Navy area. But, one thing that has not been brought up but really should be and matter of fact rather than opinion, is that the principal VERY UNETHICALLY brought in his wife to work under him at Navy. Employed and evaluated by her own husband… this would be against most anti nepotism policies at many established companies. |