Springbrook HS Staff Letter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look carefully at the board docs. They do not say she taught for seven years. At all.

This is what it says:

2006–2008 Resource Teacher, Springbrook High School
2000–2006 Counselor, Springbrook High School
1998–2000 Art Teacher, Springbrook High School

1995–1998 Art Teacher, Duval High School, Prince George’s County Public Schools, Lanham, MD
1993–1995 Interdisciplinary Teacher, Seat Pleasant Elementary School, Prince George’s County Public Schools, Seat Pleasant, MD

With all respect, just to clarify:
1. An interdisciplinary elementary school teacher is a play on words - this is her first ‘practice’ gig in education. Before that all of her education and experience is in fashion retail.

2. A counselor is not a teacher. They are very important! But not teachers.

3. As an RT, she would’ve only taught two classes.

Let’s just say all these things are debatable - what’s NOT debatable is that she hasn’t been in the classroom for 25 years.

Notice how quickly she goes from position to position. It’s indicative of someone simply climbing the ladder, not someone with a passion for kids.

RTs teach 3-4 classes. 3 is uncommon, 4 is most common.

[Anonymous]

Omg an art teacher

[Anonymous]

Letter brings a lot to light, but MCEA states teachers can be observed at anytime. Admin also has a right to observe PLCs ... and structured discourse is a county wide focus... SLOs can be school wide...staffing assignments can be changed by admin to fit the school's needs.

If teachers plan for something during PLC, why wouldn't they be teaching it? If teachers are going to write a letter like this, they have to make sure it doesn't seem like they are avoiding being held responsible for their duties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg an art teacher

Art Teacher is still a Teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look carefully at the board docs. They do not say she taught for seven years. At all.

This is what it says:

2006–2008 Resource Teacher, Springbrook High School
2000–2006 Counselor, Springbrook High School
1998–2000 Art Teacher, Springbrook High School

1995–1998 Art Teacher, Duval High School, Prince George’s County Public Schools, Lanham, MD
1993–1995 Interdisciplinary Teacher, Seat Pleasant Elementary School, Prince George’s County Public Schools, Seat Pleasant, MD

I remember when she was a “Resource Teacher.” This was when she failed at being the IB Coordinator and didn’t teach a single class. I can’t believe they let someone who couldn’t manage an IB program become principal at an IB School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Letter brings a lot to light, but MCEA states teachers can be observed at anytime. Admin also has a right to observe PLCs ... and structured discourse is a county wide focus... SLOs can be school wide...staffing assignments can be changed by admin to fit the school's needs.

If teachers plan for something during PLC, why wouldn't they be teaching it? If teachers are going to write a letter like this, they have to make sure it doesn't seem like they are avoiding being held responsible for their duties.

I think the word “discourse” can be misleading. Stephanie Valentine has insisted, ver batim, that all discourse must be open ended and debatable in each class for 50% of the class period. How do you spend half of a class “debating” science? Math? Test scores are abysmal, and it’s not because students don’t talk enough…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look carefully at the board docs. They do not say she taught for seven years. At all.

This is what it says:

2006–2008 Resource Teacher, Springbrook High School
2000–2006 Counselor, Springbrook High School
1998–2000 Art Teacher, Springbrook High School

1995–1998 Art Teacher, Duval High School, Prince George’s County Public Schools, Lanham, MD
1993–1995 Interdisciplinary Teacher, Seat Pleasant Elementary School, Prince George’s County Public Schools, Seat Pleasant, MD

The "she only taught for two years" is because she only taught for two years in MCPS. They're not counting her teaching time in PGCPS because you know MCPS snobs think only MCPS experience is worthy and valid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look carefully at the board docs. They do not say she taught for seven years. At all.

This is what it says:

2006–2008 Resource Teacher, Springbrook High School
2000–2006 Counselor, Springbrook High School
1998–2000 Art Teacher, Springbrook High School

1995–1998 Art Teacher, Duval High School, Prince George’s County Public Schools, Lanham, MD
1993–1995 Interdisciplinary Teacher, Seat Pleasant Elementary School, Prince George’s County Public Schools, Seat Pleasant, MD

The "she only taught for two years" is because she only taught for two years in MCPS. They're not counting her teaching time in PGCPS because you know MCPS snobs think only MCPS experience is worthy and valid.

Bingo

[Anonymous]

This is so disappointing. Years ago, I taught at White Oak Middle School. I moved to a different school because the principal (who is still at WOMS) engages in similar bullying behaviors. This means that students who go from WOMS to Springbrook are spending their entire middle and high school careers in buildings in which this type of toxic behavior is the norm. Hopefully this letter will result in some positive change for teachers and kids.

[Anonymous]

I am a teacher at another MCPS HS where we have a wonderful Principal and I just want to share that I support all of the staff at SHS. This sounds absolutely dreadful and I hope Taylor and/or the BOE does something to help you!! You shouldn’t have to deal with someone like this.

[Anonymous]

I think it is a CONFLICT of interest when teachers are saddled with 60-70 hours worth of work to get done in 40 hrs per your contract ( they force us to fraud our own paperwork to say 40) then the people that are responsible to support us are the ones that write negative reviews that we are sub par when they had us pushing 80s per week. Then the fire us and lie to the unemployment office saying we quit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work at Springbrook, and am aware of the letter but do not have a copy. The morale of the staff is abysmal, with constant micromanaging by the principal and her assistants. Armed with her two years of teaching art, it is laughable when she tries to dictate pedagogy to content areas. She shuts down and silences students who question administration. Any bad publicity is covered up, from fighting and vaping, to mold in classrooms, to the three teachers dismissed in the last calendar year for inappropriate interactions with children. We have contacted the union for support, but we just get told to be patient and follow the process. Please, parents: complain. Complain about everything you don’t like, and send it to the superintendent, the Board of Ed, and probably the media at this point.

Oooohhh they don't like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need a brave Springbrook HS staff member to speak out!

while this would be great, if she’s a bully as stated on this thread, the staff won’t out themselves. I don’t blame them. I worked at a school with a retaliatory principal and our staff attempted a similar approach: the community was never informed or made aware because sharing it puts involved staff members at risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She only cares about herself. Last year, students created an IG page where they were posting their concerns about Valentine and the school’s inability to keep students safe (due to the bomb threat, several non-school related people entering the school building and wandering around, the gun brought to school). Valentine made it her mission to call down every student who was following that IG page and terrified those kids into telling her who it was. She forced the student to delete the page and never once showed any interest in making this school safer for students.

What?! Is this confirmed??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And to think that MCCPTA Awarded Principal Valentine Principal of the Year last year and the former PTSA President Heinz Weverink cringingly referred to her publicly as "The Chosen One"....

Too many PTSAs in MCPS have a toxic, co-dependent relationship with their principals where they allow themselves to be manipulated and lied to by the principal as opposed to be a group focused on advocating for parents, students and staff. Disgusting.

Loquacious group in elementary school different cluster