Maury Principal Leaving (ACPS)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The scuttlebutt is that he refused to cave to pressure from a person/family with a specific agenda. The person was crude in its tactics but that is no great surprise knowing that particular family. This is about race and an arrogant display of classism.

We have one of these at our neighboring ACPS ES.

I think I can make a reasonable guess as to who the Maury person is and I don't blame him for moving on.

Is this kind of entitled behavior exclusive to Alexandria? When I tell people who don't live here about our school's resident pushy/bully parent, they can't the level and extremes this person goes to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scuttlebutt is that he refused to cave to pressure from a person/family with a specific agenda. The person was crude in its tactics but that is no great surprise knowing that particular family. This is about race and an arrogant display of classism.

We have one of these at our neighboring ACPS ES.

I think I can make a reasonable guess as to who the Maury person is and I don't blame him for moving on.

Is this kind of entitled behavior exclusive to Alexandria? When I tell people who don't live here about our school's resident pushy/bully parent, they can't the level and extremes this person goes to.

Well now we need more info on the scuttlebutt. What was the conflict and how did this parent/family exert influence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scuttlebutt is that he refused to cave to pressure from a person/family with a specific agenda. The person was crude in its tactics but that is no great surprise knowing that particular family. This is about race and an arrogant display of classism.

We have one of these at our neighboring ACPS ES.

I think I can make a reasonable guess as to who the Maury person is and I don't blame him for moving on.

Is this kind of entitled behavior exclusive to Alexandria? When I tell people who don't live here about our school's resident pushy/bully parent, they can't the level and extremes this person goes to.

In APS they tend to form groups

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scuttlebutt is that he refused to cave to pressure from a person/family with a specific agenda. The person was crude in its tactics but that is no great surprise knowing that particular family. This is about race and an arrogant display of classism.

We have one of these at our neighboring ACPS ES.

I think I can make a reasonable guess as to who the Maury person is and I don't blame him for moving on.

Is this kind of entitled behavior exclusive to Alexandria? When I tell people who don't live here about our school's resident pushy/bully parent, they can't the level and extremes this person goes to.

In APS they tend to form groups

What kind of groups?

[Anonymous]

Over the past year/18 months four ES principals have left ACPS (MacArthur, George Mason, JH, Barrett). Maury makes it five. So in that time ACPS is losing/has lost almost half of the ES principals.

This seems like very high turnover to me. Is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Over the past year/18 months four ES principals have left ACPS (MacArthur, George Mason, JH, Barrett). Maury makes it five. So in that time ACPS is losing/has lost almost half of the ES principals.

This seems like very high turnover to me. Is it?

J-H’s principal was horrible so his departure can only be seen as a good thing. Add that Polk’s principal is retiring at the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

The scuttlebutt is that he refused to cave to pressure from a person/family with a specific agenda. The person was crude in its tactics but that is no great surprise knowing that particular family. This is about race and an arrogant display of classism.


We have one of these at our neighboring ACPS ES.

I think I can make a reasonable guess as to who the Maury person is and I don't blame him for moving on.

Is this kind of entitled behavior exclusive to Alexandria? When I tell people who don't live here about our school's resident pushy/bully parent, they can't the level and extremes this person goes to.



Well now we need more info on the scuttlebutt. What was the conflict and how did this parent/family exert influence?

Are people sure this is true? The new job sounds like a step up (being in charge of a larger middle school vs. a small elementary). There was unlikely to be opportunity for a similar upward move in ACPS, given that Hammond and GW already both have strong principals.

[Anonymous]

I thought he was ok. He did nothing wrong in his interactions with me or my kids. But, as a PP mentioned, he just wasn't as good as his predecessor, Ms. Jackson, who made the kids feel loved and encouraged. He didn't do anything to discourage the kids or make them feel bad, he just didn't have that warm, super outgoing personality like Ms. Jackson did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Over the past year/18 months four ES principals have left ACPS (MacArthur, George Mason, JH, Barrett). Maury makes it five. So in that time ACPS is losing/has lost almost half of the ES principals.

This seems like very high turnover to me. Is it?

The entire admin team at MacArthur left in 2019: the principal (who was interim) and both APs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over the past year/18 months four ES principals have left ACPS (MacArthur, George Mason, JH, Barrett). Maury makes it five. So in that time ACPS is losing/has lost almost half of the ES principals.

This seems like very high turnover to me. Is it?

J-H’s principal was horrible so his departure can only be seen as a good thing. Add that Polk’s principal is retiring at the end of the year.

JH was unaccredited for years and nothing has changed except the state lowered the bar for accreditation, which actually undermines the credibility of any improvement. The principal, superintendent, and school board at a minimum should have been dumped for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is taking over as principal of Glasgow MS in FCPS, which until recently had an excellent principal (who left earlier this year to become principal of a nearby high school). Sounds like the Glasgow community may not be as high maintenance as Maury, but if he is merely adequate there will be complaints because he’s following a superstar.

It’s FCPS. Jesus himself could he principal of an FCPS school and the parents would b*tch.

There were very few complaints, and many accolades, for Shawn DeRose when he was an AP at TJHSST and Stuart and then the Principal at Glasgow. Glasgow is not an easy assignment - it's a 6-8 middle school with almost 1800 kids and a 60% poverty rate. Only TC would be a tougher job in ACPS, or perhaps J-H. So if Powell is just OK, that's probably not going to cut it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over the past year/18 months four ES principals have left ACPS (MacArthur, George Mason, JH, Barrett). Maury makes it five. So in that time ACPS is losing/has lost almost half of the ES principals.

This seems like very high turnover to me. Is it?

J-H’s principal was horrible so his departure can only be seen as a good thing. Add that Polk’s principal is retiring at the end of the year.

JH was unaccredited for years and nothing has changed except the state lowered the bar for accreditation, which actually undermines the credibility of any improvement. The principal, superintendent, and school board at a minimum should have been dumped for that.

Yeah and the old GM principal was no prize.

[Anonymous]

He's fortunate to get out and into a new job before someone filed a lawsuit with respect to the inability of anyone at that school to understand IEPs and IDEA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have first-hand experience. He used incorrect grammar when he spoke and was downright combative with parents. I’ve spent the last few years bypassing him and accessing the assistant principal who has been doing his job for him. This has NOTHING to do with race. We all had high hopes for him.

Professional adults do not complain about "incorrect grammar" when someone is speaking. Virtually everyone makes grammatical mistakes when speaking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have first-hand experience. He used incorrect grammar when he spoke and was downright combative with parents. I’ve spent the last few years bypassing him and accessing the assistant principal who has been doing his job for him. This has NOTHING to do with race. We all had high hopes for him.

Professional adults do not complain about "incorrect grammar" when someone is speaking. Virtually everyone makes grammatical mistakes when speaking.

Professional adults do not confuse ignorance/lack of education with being acceptable/excusable because grammar is racist. Seriously, can we lower the bar some more and develop some other excuses for people who simply are not performing? Maybe the number of kids failing would not have doubled over the past year if we actually held people accountable.