Navy Elementary New Principal

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone planning on attending this meeting? Can we listen in online?

The email asks parents to register and go to a community meeting at another school. This doesn’t seem right at all.

Anyone from the FCPS community is invited to come and that school is the location where the meeting is behind held. It is a community wide event and not specifically for that one school.

Except the email specifically is encouraging Navy families to come and air grievances about the new Navy principal. Shame on whoever is involved.

All this because the new principal isn’t as easily swayed by PTA moms?

I'm not going to paste the email, but it made reference to a couple of recent incidents where there was apparently police involvement but the school community was not notified. I can't verify whether the information is true or not -- I had not heard anything about either incident. It is concerning if true. The other part of the email referred to staff feeling unsupported. That part came off more whiny to me and not something that a parent should be bringing up on behalf of teachers, in my opinion. It makes the teachers look bad. Clearly someone is complaining to parents. Even if you hate your principal that is unprofessional. At Navy the lines between parents and teachers are a little too blurry sometimes. Maybe parents shouldn't be allowed to frequently sub at their kids' own school. You want to make money as a sub, do it somewhere else. Don't do it so you can spy on your kid's school day and get the best teacher placements for your kid.

+1 This exactly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone planning on attending this meeting? Can we listen in online?

The email asks parents to register and go to a community meeting at another school. This doesn’t seem right at all.

Anyone from the FCPS community is invited to come and that school is the location where the meeting is behind held. It is a community wide event and not specifically for that one school.

Except the email specifically is encouraging Navy families to come and air grievances about the new Navy principal. Shame on whoever is involved.

All this because the new principal isn’t as easily swayed by PTA moms?

I'm not going to paste the email, but it made reference to a couple of recent incidents where there was apparently police involvement but the school community was not notified. I can't verify whether the information is true or not -- I had not heard anything about either incident. It is concerning if true. The other part of the email referred to staff feeling unsupported. That part came off more whiny to me and not something that a parent should be bringing up on behalf of teachers, in my opinion. It makes the teachers look bad. Clearly someone is complaining to parents. Even if you hate your principal that is unprofessional. At Navy the lines between parents and teachers are a little too blurry sometimes. Maybe parents shouldn't be allowed to frequently sub at their kids' own school. You want to make money as a sub, do it somewhere else. Don't do it so you can spy on your kid's school day and get the best teacher placements for your kid.

This gossip shouldn’t be spread in a malicious email like this. This quite frankly is looking more and more like a witch hunt. It honestly all sounds like sour grapes.

[Anonymous]

Fcps needs direct election for principals, just like we do for congress

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone planning on attending this meeting? Can we listen in online?

The email asks parents to register and go to a community meeting at another school. This doesn’t seem right at all.

Anyone from the FCPS community is invited to come and that school is the location where the meeting is behind held. It is a community wide event and not specifically for that one school.

Except the email specifically is encouraging Navy families to come and air grievances about the new Navy principal. Shame on whoever is involved.

There are 4 meetings and the email specifically says to do the April one. As if Navy is going to swarm the event.

A previous post said that is what they did at Orange Hunt and it worked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fcps needs direct election for principals, just like we do for congress

There were a small group of parents that helped pick. I don't think FCPS is a democracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone planning on attending this meeting? Can we listen in online?

The email asks parents to register and go to a community meeting at another school. This doesn’t seem right at all.

Anyone from the FCPS community is invited to come and that school is the location where the meeting is behind held. It is a community wide event and not specifically for that one school.

Except the email specifically is encouraging Navy families to come and air grievances about the new Navy principal. Shame on whoever is involved.

There are 4 meetings and the email specifically says to do the April one. As if Navy is going to swarm the event.

A previous post said that is what they did at Orange Hunt and it worked.

No they were able to get a meeting at their own school. They didn’t go to a meeting held at another school. In fact, last spring at Navy, a community meeting with Dr. Reid was held. Whoever has issues with the new principal should try to get a meeting at Navy. That would be the appropriate place to air grievances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone planning on attending this meeting? Can we listen in online?

The email asks parents to register and go to a community meeting at another school. This doesn’t seem right at all.

Anyone from the FCPS community is invited to come and that school is the location where the meeting is behind held. It is a community wide event and not specifically for that one school.

Except the email specifically is encouraging Navy families to come and air grievances about the new Navy principal. Shame on whoever is involved.

All this because the new principal isn’t as easily swayed by PTA moms?

I'm not going to paste the email, but it made reference to a couple of recent incidents where there was apparently police involvement but the school community was not notified. I can't verify whether the information is true or not -- I had not heard anything about either incident. It is concerning if true. The other part of the email referred to staff feeling unsupported. That part came off more whiny to me and not something that a parent should be bringing up on behalf of teachers, in my opinion. It makes the teachers look bad. Clearly someone is complaining to parents. Even if you hate your principal that is unprofessional. At Navy the lines between parents and teachers are a little too blurry sometimes. Maybe parents shouldn't be allowed to frequently sub at their kids' own school. You want to make money as a sub, do it somewhere else. Don't do it so you can spy on your kid's school day and get the best teacher placements for your kid.

So it sounds like you are saying whoever wrote the email (or forwarded it) was a parent sub. I agree with you.

[Anonymous]

Drunk driving bad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with the email going around? The information shared there was concerning.

I got the email but I will not be partaking in this effort.

+1 same

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with the email going around? The information shared there was concerning.

The email is completely ridiculous. It sounds like maybe it was written by one of the staff.

Or a parent that used to work there in some capacity that is holding a grudge.

That’s how I took it. People need to get a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually think a teacher has forwarded it.

Sub?

[Anonymous]

Living up to your reputation, I see…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with the email going around? The information shared there was concerning.

The email is completely ridiculous. It sounds like maybe it was written by one of the staff.

Or a parent that used to work there in some capacity that is holding a grudge.

That’s how I took it. People need to get a life.

That’s what I said to my spouse. I’ve got a full-time job I don’t have time for this BS. if there is an issue with school safety, let’s address it for sure. But my kids are learning and doing well. I’m not sticking my nose where it doesn’t belong. Some people have too much time on their hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with the email going around? The information shared there was concerning.

The email is completely ridiculous. It sounds like maybe it was written by one of the staff.

Or a parent that used to work there in some capacity that is holding a grudge.

That’s how I took it. People need to get a life.

That’s what I said to my spouse. I’ve got a full-time job I don’t have time for this BS. if there is an issue with school safety, let’s address it for sure. But my kids are learning and doing well. I’m not sticking my nose where it doesn’t belong. Some people have too much time on their hands.

There isn’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with the email going around? The information shared there was concerning.

The email is completely ridiculous. It sounds like maybe it was written by one of the staff.

Or a parent that used to work there in some capacity that is holding a grudge.

That’s how I took it. People need to get a life.

That’s what I said to my spouse. I’ve got a full-time job I don’t have time for this BS. if there is an issue with school safety, let’s address it for sure. But my kids are learning and doing well. I’m not sticking my nose where it doesn’t belong. Some people have too much time on their hands.

There isn’t.

Did not Pr. Smithsim communicate recently about improving safety? It sounds like he is being responsible.