Call to discuss the state of Hardy 05/15/23

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you really think this is what’s best for the school, to oust a principal with one month left? Why not just say his contract isn’t renewed for next year but let him finish the year? This new interim principal is just going to make teachers go to extra meetings to introduce himself, allow him to ‘learn the culture of the school’, etc. Nothing meaningful will happen.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Because a lot of work needs to be done.

The school still doesn’t have a schedule for next year. That may sound astonishing to outsiders, but it is true.

So, first the number of class periods and class length needs to be determined.

Then the actual classes need to be laid out. What is supposed to be taught, and by whom?

Then a staging analysis needs to be performed. Does the school have the teachers it needs to execute the schedule it plans?

And, then, hiring needs to occur to fill those needs.

A lot needs to happen, and fast. That none of this is done by now is an astonishing indictment of the school’s leadership. But this is where we are.

So, yes, this couldn’t wait any longer. I imagine Central Office realized that too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because a lot of work needs to be done.

The school still doesn’t have a schedule for next year. That may sound astonishing to outsiders, but it is true.

So, first the number of class periods and class length needs to be determined.

Then the actual classes need to be laid out. What is supposed to be taught, and by whom?

Then a staging analysis needs to be performed. Does the school have the teachers it needs to execute the schedule it plans?

And, then, hiring needs to occur to fill those needs.

A lot needs to happen, and fast. That none of this is done by now is an astonishing indictment of the school’s leadership. But this is where we are.

So, yes, this couldn’t wait any longer. I imagine Central Office realized that too.

Please stop. This is outrageous. Every sentence above is a complete lie. That is not how it works. The school has a schedule and of course the leadership knows who is teaching what. Since you know so much about how too operate a school, they should assign you to be the principal, AP, teacher, counselor and janitor.

Central Office simply played politics with and for a bunch of know it all “slight” racist parents. PJ should be happy to be rid of you overbearing bigots. Cooke was right to get the hell away.

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/20/dc-hardy-middle-school-principal/

The comment section tells the real story. People are outraged. Horrible people doing horrible racist things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you really think this is what’s best for the school, to oust a principal with one month left? Why not just say his contract isn’t renewed for next year but let him finish the year? This new interim principal is just going to make teachers go to extra meetings to introduce himself, allow him to ‘learn the culture of the school’, etc. Nothing meaningful will happen.

+1.

Right. Nothing meaningful will happen. The new interim principal is actually not a principal. He is there to babysit the school. He has zero investment in what is going on at Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because a lot of work needs to be done.

The school still doesn’t have a schedule for next year. That may sound astonishing to outsiders, but it is true.

So, first the number of class periods and class length needs to be determined.

Then the actual classes need to be laid out. What is supposed to be taught, and by whom?

Then a staging analysis needs to be performed. Does the school have the teachers it needs to execute the schedule it plans?

And, then, hiring needs to occur to fill those needs.

A lot needs to happen, and fast. That none of this is done by now is an astonishing indictment of the school’s leadership. But this is where we are.

So, yes, this couldn’t wait any longer. I imagine Central Office realized that too.

Please stop. This is outrageous. Every sentence above is a complete lie. That is not how it works. The school has a schedule and of course the leadership knows who is teaching what. Since you know so much about how too operate a school, they should assign you to be the principal, AP, teacher, counselor and janitor.

Central Office simply played politics with and for a bunch of know it all “slight” racist parents. PJ should be happy to be rid of you overbearing bigots. Cooke was right to get the hell away.

False. Your reply is false.

The teachers have a grievance on the schedule right now. They claim they weren’t properly consulted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because a lot of work needs to be done.

The school still doesn’t have a schedule for next year. That may sound astonishing to outsiders, but it is true.

So, first the number of class periods and class length needs to be determined.

Then the actual classes need to be laid out. What is supposed to be taught, and by whom?

Then a staging analysis needs to be performed. Does the school have the teachers it needs to execute the schedule it plans?

And, then, hiring needs to occur to fill those needs.

A lot needs to happen, and fast. That none of this is done by now is an astonishing indictment of the school’s leadership. But this is where we are.

So, yes, this couldn’t wait any longer. I imagine Central Office realized that too.

Please stop. This is outrageous. Every sentence above is a complete lie. That is not how it works. The school has a schedule and of course the leadership knows who is teaching what. Since you know so much about how too operate a school, they should assign you to be the principal, AP, teacher, counselor and janitor.

Central Office simply played politics with and for a bunch of know it all “slight” racist parents. PJ should be happy to be rid of you overbearing bigots. Cooke was right to get the hell away.

False. Your reply is false.

The teachers have a grievance on the schedule right now. They claim they weren’t properly consulted.

Again. You know nothing about how the school works. You are uninformed. Stop speaking for the teachers— you are making it up. Where do you work? I would love to start to post about how things she be handled at your job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because a lot of work needs to be done.

The school still doesn’t have a schedule for next year. That may sound astonishing to outsiders, but it is true.

So, first the number of class periods and class length needs to be determined.

Then the actual classes need to be laid out. What is supposed to be taught, and by whom?

Then a staging analysis needs to be performed. Does the school have the teachers it needs to execute the schedule it plans?

And, then, hiring needs to occur to fill those needs.

A lot needs to happen, and fast. That none of this is done by now is an astonishing indictment of the school’s leadership. But this is where we are.

So, yes, this couldn’t wait any longer. I imagine Central Office realized that too.

Please stop. This is outrageous. Every sentence above is a complete lie. That is not how it works. The school has a schedule and of course the leadership knows who is teaching what. Since you know so much about how too operate a school, they should assign you to be the principal, AP, teacher, counselor and janitor.

Central Office simply played politics with and for a bunch of know it all “slight” racist parents. PJ should be happy to be rid of you overbearing bigots. Cooke was right to get the hell away.

False. Your reply is false.

The teachers have a grievance on the schedule right now. They claim they weren’t properly consulted.

Again. You know nothing about how the school works. You are uninformed. Stop speaking for the teachers— you are making it up. Where do you work? I would love to start to post about how things she be handled at your job.

DP: I think your knowledge is more limited than you realize.

[Anonymous]

So, you don’t deny there is an open grievance then. And, I presume, you don’t deny that PJ should not have shared his proposed schedule on May 3 given the open grievance.

Or, do you want me to quote from emails?

And on the schedule that was shown on May 3rd, it doesn’t comply with a host of DCPS requirements.

[Anonymous]

YOU ARE NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF HARDY OR DCPS. Your roll is not to supervise and manage the staff of Hardy. This is pathetic. If you know anything about Hardy and all schools, the schedule goes through a zillion iterations. Folks are always mad about the schedule. There is ALWAYS a grievance about the schedule. IS Hughes is responsible for ensuring the schedule deadlines are being made. Most of the time they are not made because the schedule is complicated. That is schools. This was the exact same under Cooke. Christ!

[Anonymous]

I’m confused about the schedule part of this. Are all schedules usually finalized by now? What about the summer? I feel like under Cooke’s during his first or second year we didn’t know anything about our schedule and teachers until about five minutes before school started and a couple of teachers were hired to fill vacancies months into the school year. This all predated the 90 minute block class mess of course—which PJ inherited. Along with the terrible budget.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:YOU ARE NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF HARDY OR DCPS. Your roll is not to supervise and manage the staff of Hardy. This is pathetic. If you know anything about Hardy and all schools, the schedule goes through a zillion iterations. Folks are always mad about the schedule. There is ALWAYS a grievance about the schedule. IS Hughes is responsible for ensuring the schedule deadlines are being made. Most of the time they are not made because the schedule is complicated. That is schools. This was the exact same under Cooke. Christ!

You are correct but wasting your breath. Privilege and a bunch of loud mouth uninformed parents won. Nothing more to see here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:YOU ARE NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF HARDY OR DCPS. Your roll is not to supervise and manage the staff of Hardy. This is pathetic. If you know anything about Hardy and all schools, the schedule goes through a zillion iterations. Folks are always mad about the schedule. There is ALWAYS a grievance about the schedule. IS Hughes is responsible for ensuring the schedule deadlines are being made. Most of the time they are not made because the schedule is complicated. That is schools. This was the exact same under Cooke. Christ!

Perhaps this week is a manifestation of IS Hughes is performing that responsibility?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:YOU ARE NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF HARDY OR DCPS. Your roll is not to supervise and manage the staff of Hardy. This is pathetic. If you know anything about Hardy and all schools, the schedule goes through a zillion iterations. Folks are always mad about the schedule. There is ALWAYS a grievance about the schedule. IS Hughes is responsible for ensuring the schedule deadlines are being made. Most of the time they are not made because the schedule is complicated. That is schools. This was the exact same under Cooke. Christ!

Well evidently the IS was not happy with how the schedule deadlines were being managed. Hence, the events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused about the schedule part of this. Are all schedules usually finalized by now? What about the summer? I feel like under Cooke’s during his first or second year we didn’t know anything about our schedule and teachers until about five minutes before school started and a couple of teachers were hired to fill vacancies months into the school year. This all predated the 90 minute block class mess of course—which PJ inherited. Along with the terrible budget.

Exactly. But we are dealing with a system that choose politics over kids and took the easy way out and not say NO to the bullies of upper NW.