Springbrook HS Staff Letter

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Anonymous wrote:any updates to this thread? Is Valentine still principal?

Of course she is. It was naive of anyone to expect an MCPS principal to experience any kind of a consequence.

Unless your name is Doug Nelson or Shelton Mooney 🤔

Those principals oversees schools in the right zip codes of this county.

MCPS does not care what happens to kids in White Oak, which is where Springbrook is.

And those principals were white men.

[Anonymous]

Any update on this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any update on this?

No updates will come. Director Robby Dodd fled the scene and Associate Superintendent Donna Redmond-Jones put out the fire.

Valentine was covered, once again, by Central Officer.

[Anonymous]

As I understand it, there is quite a shortage of qualified people that choose to be in education let alone in administration. I mean, as an educator of 25 years I GET IT. Taking on very, very difficult positions with physical and emotional dangers (guns! aggressive kids and families! unhappy teachers! toxic
environments!) and lack of the appropriate compensation that should come with the job, no principals will be removed because no one wants the job. It’s a PROBLEM that will not get solved over night. Document, document, document is all we can do. But don’t be angry when there is no one to take on the role…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As I understand it, there is quite a shortage of qualified people that choose to be in education let alone in administration. I mean, as an educator of 25 years I GET IT. Taking on very, very difficult positions with physical and emotional dangers (guns! aggressive kids and families! unhappy teachers! toxic
environments!) and lack of the appropriate compensation that should come with the job, no principals will be removed because no one wants the job. It’s a PROBLEM that will not get solved over night. Document, document, document is all we can do. But don’t be angry when there is no one to take on the role…

I agree with this. The principal job, as it's currently constructed, is a misery-inducing one and the pay does not make up for the headaches.

[Anonymous]

Springbrook in the late 90s and early 2000s was a legit great school. It really was.

Amazing how far it has fallen.