How is Ritchie Park these days?

[Anonymous]

There is a meanie lunch lady at my child's school (not Ritchie Park). I wish she weren't there. But I still like the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There you go again, PP. I'm an RP parent. Never said the school was perfect. I was just countering your point that the school is terrible because the meanie lunch ladies aren't very nice and thus the school is so "punitive." Your relentless negativity on the punitive nature of the school is tiresome. Ok, we get it - the lunch or recess lady was mean to your kid for perhaps no reason, and he or she got in trouble, and now you take every opportunity to exact revenge on the school through this forum.

Your read on this situation is totally wrong. I don't like rp because the administration is terrible. You just don't agree with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There you go again, PP. I'm an RP parent. Never said the school was perfect. I was just countering your point that the school is terrible because the meanie lunch ladies aren't very nice and thus the school is so "punitive." Your relentless negativity on the punitive nature of the school is tiresome. Ok, we get it - the lunch or recess lady was mean to your kid for perhaps no reason, and he or she got in trouble, and now you take every opportunity to exact revenge on the school through this forum.

Your read on this situation is totally wrong. I don't like rp because the administration is terrible. You just don't agree with me.

I thought only the Principal was bad, not the whole admin. I heard the VP was great, and so was the school counselor. I've never dealt with any of them so I don't know for sure, but I know some parents have. The Nurse and the Administrative staff however seem pretty nice, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a meanie lunch lady at my child's school (not Ritchie Park). I wish she weren't there. But I still like the school.

See, all schools have the "mean old lady". It can't be a school without one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There you go again, PP. I'm an RP parent. Never said the school was perfect. I was just countering your point that the school is terrible because the meanie lunch ladies aren't very nice and thus the school is so "punitive." Your relentless negativity on the punitive nature of the school is tiresome. Ok, we get it - the lunch or recess lady was mean to your kid for perhaps no reason, and he or she got in trouble, and now you take every opportunity to exact revenge on the school through this forum.

Your read on this situation is totally wrong. I don't like rp because the administration is terrible. You just don't agree with me.

I thought only the Principal was bad, not the whole admin. I heard the VP was great, and so was the school counselor. I've never dealt with any of them so I don't know for sure, but I know some parents have. The Nurse and the Administrative staff however seem pretty nice, IMO.

NP, but "administration" equals principal and assistant principal. The counselor is not an administrator. Neither is the health tech (they are not even school system employees I don't think).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There you go again, PP. I'm an RP parent. Never said the school was perfect. I was just countering your point that the school is terrible because the meanie lunch ladies aren't very nice and thus the school is so "punitive." Your relentless negativity on the punitive nature of the school is tiresome. Ok, we get it - the lunch or recess lady was mean to your kid for perhaps no reason, and he or she got in trouble, and now you take every opportunity to exact revenge on the school through this forum.

Your read on this situation is totally wrong. I don't like rp because the administration is terrible. You just don't agree with me.

I thought only the Principal was bad, not the whole admin. I heard the VP was great, and so was the school counselor. I've never dealt with any of them so I don't know for sure, but I know some parents have. The Nurse and the Administrative staff however seem pretty nice, IMO.

NP, but "administration" equals principal and assistant principal. The counselor is not an administrator. Neither is the health tech (they are not even school system employees I don't think).

OK, but I heard the AP is really good. So that would be half the admin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There you go again, PP. I'm an RP parent. Never said the school was perfect. I was just countering your point that the school is terrible because the meanie lunch ladies aren't very nice and thus the school is so "punitive." Your relentless negativity on the punitive nature of the school is tiresome. Ok, we get it - the lunch or recess lady was mean to your kid for perhaps no reason, and he or she got in trouble, and now you take every opportunity to exact revenge on the school through this forum.

Your read on this situation is totally wrong. I don't like rp because the administration is terrible. You just don't agree with me.

I thought only the Principal was bad, not the whole admin. I heard the VP was great, and so was the school counselor. I've never dealt with any of them so I don't know for sure, but I know some parents have. The Nurse and the Administrative staff however seem pretty nice, IMO.

The vp is great actually. The school counselor is terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There you go again, PP. I'm an RP parent. Never said the school was perfect. I was just countering your point that the school is terrible because the meanie lunch ladies aren't very nice and thus the school is so "punitive." Your relentless negativity on the punitive nature of the school is tiresome. Ok, we get it - the lunch or recess lady was mean to your kid for perhaps no reason, and he or she got in trouble, and now you take every opportunity to exact revenge on the school through this forum.

Your read on this situation is totally wrong. I don't like rp because the administration is terrible. You just don't agree with me.

I thought only the Principal was bad, not the whole admin. I heard the VP was great, and so was the school counselor. I've never dealt with any of them so I don't know for sure, but I know some parents have. The Nurse and the Administrative staff however seem pretty nice, IMO.

The vp is great actually. The school counselor is terrible.

The nurse? What?

[Anonymous]

One of the bus drivers isn't very friendly at Cold Spring, and the art teacher isn't very nice either to my daughter. So I guess the whole school is terrible according to that poster. Sorry, poster, you are just way off and clearly a malcontent.

[Anonymous]

This thread is ridiculous. Everyone who complains about Ritchie Park has a vendetta and is a malcontent and everyone who loves it is right?

[Anonymous]

I think we can settle this pretty easily: RP is a great school with a strong community. Principal - not great. There is a mean troll lunch and recess monitor that is not nice to certain kids and probably needs to go. There is one poster here who will hate RP no matter what because their kid was punished by the troll recess meanie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we can settle this pretty easily: RP is a great school with a strong community. Principal - not great. There is a mean troll lunch and recess monitor that is not nice to certain kids and probably needs to go. There is one poster here who will hate RP no matter what because their kid was punished by the troll recess meanie.

RP is not a great school. And I'm not sure how you can think there is just one poster who feels that way.

[Anonymous]

The principal makes a big difference. Every school has a bad teacher. Some have more than others. A good principal usually has fewer mediocre and bad teachers because they are better at retaining the good ones, not hiring someone who is bad when they have an opening, and intervening with a bad teacher. Even the good principals can't outright fire a bad teacher but they absolutely address parental complaints and intervene with a teacher.

We have a bad teacher at our school and nothing is going to make her stellar. However, our principal does take parents complaints seriously and intervenes. We see the behavior change and the teacher goes back to her old ways in a few weeks but then the cycle starts over again. Its probably frustrating for the principal to have to keep intervening and not be able to just fire the teacher but she keeps at it.

A bad principal will just deflect and ignore parent complaints or get defensive and dismissive. We've been at a school like that in the past and its awful. The most ridiculous petty and poor behavior goes on with bad teachers because the principal does nothing. The good teachers don't stick around and the parents feel trapped or go above the principal heads. The principal gets even more defensive because she has gotten in trouble for not doing her job. It can really wreck a school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The principal makes a big difference. Every school has a bad teacher. Some have more than others. A good principal usually has fewer mediocre and bad teachers because they are better at retaining the good ones, not hiring someone who is bad when they have an opening, and intervening with a bad teacher. Even the good principals can't outright fire a bad teacher but they absolutely address parental complaints and intervene with a teacher.

We have a bad teacher at our school and nothing is going to make her stellar. However, our principal does take parents complaints seriously and intervenes. We see the behavior change and the teacher goes back to her old ways in a few weeks but then the cycle starts over again. Its probably frustrating for the principal to have to keep intervening and not be able to just fire the teacher but she keeps at it.

A bad principal will just deflect and ignore parent complaints or get defensive and dismissive. We've been at a school like that in the past and its awful. The most ridiculous petty and poor behavior goes on with bad teachers because the principal does nothing. The good teachers don't stick around and the parents feel trapped or go above the principal heads. The principal gets even more defensive because she has gotten in trouble for not doing her job. It can really wreck a school.

Thank you for getting it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The principal makes a big difference. Every school has a bad teacher. Some have more than others. A good principal usually has fewer mediocre and bad teachers because they are better at retaining the good ones, not hiring someone who is bad when they have an opening, and intervening with a bad teacher. Even the good principals can't outright fire a bad teacher but they absolutely address parental complaints and intervene with a teacher.

We have a bad teacher at our school and nothing is going to make her stellar. However, our principal does take parents complaints seriously and intervenes. We see the behavior change and the teacher goes back to her old ways in a few weeks but then the cycle starts over again. Its probably frustrating for the principal to have to keep intervening and not be able to just fire the teacher but she keeps at it.

A bad principal will just deflect and ignore parent complaints or get defensive and dismissive. We've been at a school like that in the past and its awful. The most ridiculous petty and poor behavior goes on with bad teachers because the principal does nothing. The good teachers don't stick around and the parents feel trapped or go above the principal heads. The principal gets even more defensive because she has gotten in trouble for not doing her job. It can really wreck a school.

Off topic, but thanks for posting this. My daughter isn't school aged yet but we're starting to think about schools/ what our options are, and I've been wondering why so many parents talk about the principal when reviewing their school- this makes sense!