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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually they are not replacing those positions yet. They have not been advertised on AIMS or the school website. The only Athletics positions advertised is a MS volleyball coach and a JV volleyball coach. The PE head will be the interim AD - and teach a full load. The former AD did not teach at all. And there’s no athletic trainer in place.

If you aren’t concerned yet, you should be …

Not concerned. I trust the school. I understand that there are things happening that I don’t know about and I accept that. Athletic director WAS advertised. They tend to take down positions when they have enough applicants and are moving forward. Athletic trainer just happened - they need time to post a position. School doesn’t start till after Labor Day. Give them time.

I don’t think “not concerned” makes a lot of sense. Concerned but optimistic, sure. But given the situation I find it hard to believe anyone is genuinely “not concerned.”

And as for trusting the school, presumably you also trusted the school while they got themselves into financial distress and had shocking attrition and many, many in the community disillusioned by changes in the school culture. Perhaps it’s time for a shift to trust but verify.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually they are not replacing those positions yet. They have not been advertised on AIMS or the school website. The only Athletics positions advertised is a MS volleyball coach and a JV volleyball coach. The PE head will be the interim AD - and teach a full load. The former AD did not teach at all. And there’s no athletic trainer in place.

If you aren’t concerned yet, you should be …

Not concerned. I trust the school. I understand that there are things happening that I don’t know about and I accept that. Athletic director WAS advertised. They tend to take down positions when they have enough applicants and are moving forward. Athletic trainer just happened - they need time to post a position. School doesn’t start till after Labor Day. Give them time.

I don’t think “not concerned” makes a lot of sense. Concerned but optimistic, sure. But given the situation I find it hard to believe anyone is genuinely “not concerned.”

And as for trusting the school, presumably you also trusted the school while they got themselves into financial distress and had shocking attrition and many, many in the community disillusioned by changes in the school culture. Perhaps it’s time for a shift to trust but verify.

My “not concerned” was regarding the openings in the Athletic Department. I trust that the school will fill those positions and is doing what they need to do. It was not in relation to other issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email to the parent community was a complete joke. At the start of the message, the co-clerks wrote that they would address three main concerns that were made clear at the listening sessions, one of which was financial status of the school. They addressed two other issues but NOT the financial status!

I don't think that email was the place to address the financial status of the school. The email laid out the biggest concerns and what is being handled. To me, that suggested the financial concerns are not as bad as we think they are so not taking center stage in recovery. Perhaps I'm being naive, but I feel like if that was the #1 issue, it would have been addressed as such.

Yep corrected email sent and YOU ARE NAIVE! They wrote that the school is in financial trouble.

Wow, its DCUM and we get nasty. Perhaps some of us want to believe they are righting the ship - which sadly has to involve layoffs. Less students, less income, fewer salaries. So they are actively looking for solutions. But you do you..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email to the parent community was a complete joke. At the start of the message, the co-clerks wrote that they would address three main concerns that were made clear at the listening sessions, one of which was financial status of the school. They addressed two other issues but NOT the financial status!

I don't think that email was the place to address the financial status of the school. The email laid out the biggest concerns and what is being handled. To me, that suggested the financial concerns are not as bad as we think they are so not taking center stage in recovery. Perhaps I'm being naive, but I feel like if that was the #1 issue, it would have been addressed as such.

Yep corrected email sent and YOU ARE NAIVE! They wrote that the school is in financial trouble.

Wow, its DCUM and we get nasty. Perhaps some of us want to believe they are righting the ship - which sadly has to involve layoffs. Less students, less income, fewer salaries. So they are actively looking for solutions. But you do you..

However, they provided contracts for those employees, mutually signed them, then on the last day of work for teachers, sent them a meeting invite and laid them off with no warning. Completely out of the blue. Completely unprofessional. And RG didn’t even show his face in the process. Just disgusting. I mean, you do you, but if that’s how they are going to treat their employees, what keeps them from doing it again? And again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email to the parent community was a complete joke. At the start of the message, the co-clerks wrote that they would address three main concerns that were made clear at the listening sessions, one of which was financial status of the school. They addressed two other issues but NOT the financial status!

I don't think that email was the place to address the financial status of the school. The email laid out the biggest concerns and what is being handled. To me, that suggested the financial concerns are not as bad as we think they are so not taking center stage in recovery. Perhaps I'm being naive, but I feel like if that was the #1 issue, it would have been addressed as such.

Yep corrected email sent and YOU ARE NAIVE! They wrote that the school is in financial trouble.

Wow, its DCUM and we get nasty. Perhaps some of us want to believe they are righting the ship - which sadly has to involve layoffs. Less students, less income, fewer salaries. So they are actively looking for solutions. But you do you..

However, they provided contracts for those employees, mutually signed them, then on the last day of work for teachers, sent them a meeting invite and laid them off with no warning. Completely out of the blue. Completely unprofessional. And RG didn’t even show his face in the process. Just disgusting. I mean, you do you, but if that’s how they are going to treat their employees, what keeps them from doing it again? And again?

RG said back in April everything was rosy because everyone had signed their contracts and all staff was good for the 24-25 year. then in June staff was laid off because May student attrition was unexpected. That was hardly an excuse, and what good is a contract if staff can be laid off without any adequate notice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email to the parent community was a complete joke. At the start of the message, the co-clerks wrote that they would address three main concerns that were made clear at the listening sessions, one of which was financial status of the school. They addressed two other issues but NOT the financial status!

I don't think that email was the place to address the financial status of the school. The email laid out the biggest concerns and what is being handled. To me, that suggested the financial concerns are not as bad as we think they are so not taking center stage in recovery. Perhaps I'm being naive, but I feel like if that was the #1 issue, it would have been addressed as such.

Yep corrected email sent and YOU ARE NAIVE! They wrote that the school is in financial trouble.

Wow, its DCUM and we get nasty. Perhaps some of us want to believe they are righting the ship - which sadly has to involve layoffs. Less students, less income, fewer salaries. So they are actively looking for solutions. But you do you..

However, they provided contracts for those employees, mutually signed them, then on the last day of work for teachers, sent them a meeting invite and laid them off with no warning. Completely out of the blue. Completely unprofessional. And RG didn’t even show his face in the process. Just disgusting. I mean, you do you, but if that’s how they are going to treat their employees, what keeps them from doing it again? And again?

How do you know this PP? Are you a former employee? If true, that really is disgusting and not in keeping with how the community used to treat one another. Can't imagine that process would unfold in the same way now that RG is gone.

[Anonymous]

RG is gone. Good riddance. Please return to stronger Quaker values. Most everything else is just "noise" to our family. We are not concerned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email to the parent community was a complete joke. At the start of the message, the co-clerks wrote that they would address three main concerns that were made clear at the listening sessions, one of which was financial status of the school. They addressed two other issues but NOT the financial status!

I don't think that email was the place to address the financial status of the school. The email laid out the biggest concerns and what is being handled. To me, that suggested the financial concerns are not as bad as we think they are so not taking center stage in recovery. Perhaps I'm being naive, but I feel like if that was the #1 issue, it would have been addressed as such.

Yep corrected email sent and YOU ARE NAIVE! They wrote that the school is in financial trouble.

Wow, its DCUM and we get nasty. Perhaps some of us want to believe they are righting the ship - which sadly has to involve layoffs. Less students, less income, fewer salaries. So they are actively looking for solutions. But you do you..

However, they provided contracts for those employees, mutually signed them, then on the last day of work for teachers, sent them a meeting invite and laid them off with no warning. Completely out of the blue. Completely unprofessional. And RG didn’t even show his face in the process. Just disgusting. I mean, you do you, but if that’s how they are going to treat their employees, what keeps them from doing it again? And again?

How do you know this PP? Are you a former employee? If true, that really is disgusting and not in keeping with how the community used to treat one another. Can't imagine that process would unfold in the same way now that RG is gone.

I am not a former employee nor did I write this post. But, I do know one of the employees that was laid-off and it is absolutely accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email to the parent community was a complete joke. At the start of the message, the co-clerks wrote that they would address three main concerns that were made clear at the listening sessions, one of which was financial status of the school. They addressed two other issues but NOT the financial status!

I don't think that email was the place to address the financial status of the school. The email laid out the biggest concerns and what is being handled. To me, that suggested the financial concerns are not as bad as we think they are so not taking center stage in recovery. Perhaps I'm being naive, but I feel like if that was the #1 issue, it would have been addressed as such.

Yep corrected email sent and YOU ARE NAIVE! They wrote that the school is in financial trouble.

Wow, its DCUM and we get nasty. Perhaps some of us want to believe they are righting the ship - which sadly has to involve layoffs. Less students, less income, fewer salaries. So they are actively looking for solutions. But you do you..

However, they provided contracts for those employees, mutually signed them, then on the last day of work for teachers, sent them a meeting invite and laid them off with no warning. Completely out of the blue. Completely unprofessional. And RG didn’t even show his face in the process. Just disgusting. I mean, you do you, but if that’s how they are going to treat their employees, what keeps them from doing it again? And again?

How do you know this PP? Are you a former employee? If true, that really is disgusting and not in keeping with how the community used to treat one another. Can't imagine that process would unfold in the same way now that RG is gone.

This was public knowledge, stated in the email alerting the community of the layoffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email to the parent community was a complete joke. At the start of the message, the co-clerks wrote that they would address three main concerns that were made clear at the listening sessions, one of which was financial status of the school. They addressed two other issues but NOT the financial status!

I don't think that email was the place to address the financial status of the school. The email laid out the biggest concerns and what is being handled. To me, that suggested the financial concerns are not as bad as we think they are so not taking center stage in recovery. Perhaps I'm being naive, but I feel like if that was the #1 issue, it would have been addressed as such.

Yep corrected email sent and YOU ARE NAIVE! They wrote that the school is in financial trouble.

Wow, its DCUM and we get nasty. Perhaps some of us want to believe they are righting the ship - which sadly has to involve layoffs. Less students, less income, fewer salaries. So they are actively looking for solutions. But you do you..

However, they provided contracts for those employees, mutually signed them, then on the last day of work for teachers, sent them a meeting invite and laid them off with no warning. Completely out of the blue. Completely unprofessional. And RG didn’t even show his face in the process. Just disgusting. I mean, you do you, but if that’s how they are going to treat their employees, what keeps them from doing it again? And again?

How do you know this PP? Are you a former employee? If true, that really is disgusting and not in keeping with how the community used to treat one another. Can't imagine that process would unfold in the same way now that RG is gone.

Unfortunately, I'm sure even with a contract its "at-will" employment. It sucks and a terrible way to treat such hard working teachers and staff, but its not that much different than in other industries when it comes to layoffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually they are not replacing those positions yet. They have not been advertised on AIMS or the school website. The only Athletics positions advertised is a MS volleyball coach and a JV volleyball coach. The PE head will be the interim AD - and teach a full load. The former AD did not teach at all. And there’s no athletic trainer in place.

If you aren’t concerned yet, you should be …

Not concerned. I trust the school. I understand that there are things happening that I don’t know about and I accept that. Athletic director WAS advertised. They tend to take down positions when they have enough applicants and are moving forward. Athletic trainer just happened - they need time to post a position. School doesn’t start till after Labor Day. Give them time.

I don’t think “not concerned” makes a lot of sense. Concerned but optimistic, sure. But given the situation I find it hard to believe anyone is genuinely “not concerned.”

And as for trusting the school, presumably you also trusted the school while they got themselves into financial distress and had shocking attrition and many, many in the community disillusioned by changes in the school culture. Perhaps it’s time for a shift to trust but verify.

Yeah trust is hard, when the BOT hired RG in the 1st place (error in judgement #1), then didn’t keep open doors of feedback to realize how bad it was going (mistake #2), was not maintaining proper financial oversight (mistake #3), and are still not really sharing a lot of information on the recovery plans and timeline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email to the parent community was a complete joke. At the start of the message, the co-clerks wrote that they would address three main concerns that were made clear at the listening sessions, one of which was financial status of the school. They addressed two other issues but NOT the financial status!

I don't think that email was the place to address the financial status of the school. The email laid out the biggest concerns and what is being handled. To me, that suggested the financial concerns are not as bad as we think they are so not taking center stage in recovery. Perhaps I'm being naive, but I feel like if that was the #1 issue, it would have been addressed as such.

Yep corrected email sent and YOU ARE NAIVE! They wrote that the school is in financial trouble.

Wow, its DCUM and we get nasty. Perhaps some of us want to believe they are righting the ship - which sadly has to involve layoffs. Less students, less income, fewer salaries. So they are actively looking for solutions. But you do you..

However, they provided contracts for those employees, mutually signed them, then on the last day of work for teachers, sent them a meeting invite and laid them off with no warning. Completely out of the blue. Completely unprofessional. And RG didn’t even show his face in the process. Just disgusting. I mean, you do you, but if that’s how they are going to treat their employees, what keeps them from doing it again? And again?

How do you know this PP? Are you a former employee? If true, that really is disgusting and not in keeping with how the community used to treat one another. Can't imagine that process would unfold in the same way now that RG is gone.

Unfortunately, I'm sure even with a contract its "at-will" employment. It sucks and a terrible way to treat such hard working teachers and staff, but its not that much different than in other industries when it comes to layoffs.

Many people would be surprised that in this area their precious private school teachers contracts are not legally binding, and are just an invitation to come back the next school year. We are reminded that we can be let go at any time. It’s part of the reason I can’t be fully loyal to my school. They aren’t loyal to me either.

[Anonymous]

Teachers have a choice to work in a public school or private. Pros and cons to both but you do have that choice. There are surely reasons why you have chosen one over the other and that is an important context.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers have a choice to work in a public school or private. Pros and cons to both but you do have that choice. There are surely reasons why you have chosen one over the other and that is an important context.

I think that’s not a fair assessment of the current situation. Of course teachers make the choice that makes sense to them, but they don’t pick a place and realize they’ll end up in a toxic work environment. They don’t deserve that and have every right to be upset that they needed to face crap under RG, and he didn’t even have the decency to take time to have a conversation with each person he laid off. Everyone deserves that much respect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers have a choice to work in a public school or private. Pros and cons to both but you do have that choice. There are surely reasons why you have chosen one over the other and that is an important context.

I think that’s not a fair assessment of the current situation. Of course teachers make the choice that makes sense to them, but they don’t pick a place and realize they’ll end up in a toxic work environment. They don’t deserve that and have every right to be upset that they needed to face crap under RG, and he didn’t even have the decency to take time to have a conversation with each person he laid off. Everyone deserves that much respect.

+1 to allllllll of this

They all deserve better.