Has any aspect of ACPS improved under Hutchings leadership

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know someone on the school board who is responsive to communication?

By responsive, do you mean responding by calling you a racist or dumb or both? If so, then yes.

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Anonymous wrote:The school board is Superintendent Hutching's Boss. They do not work for him. Share your concerns with the school board. As someone said they were just voted in. As a group let's make some change.

You know that he works for them. I know that he works for him. But Hutchings and the School Board don't know that. The one exception appears to be Elnoubi. All the other new people got very cosy with their "Greg" very quickly. One even scrubbed her campaign website.

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Anonymous wrote:The school board is Superintendent Hutching's Boss. They do not work for him. Share your concerns with the school board. As someone said they were just voted in. As a group let's make some change.

You know that he works for them. I know that he works for him. But Hutchings and the School Board don't know that. The one exception appears to be Elnoubi. All the other new people got very cosy with their "Greg" very quickly. One even scrubbed her campaign website.

I'm in district A and somehow we managed to retain both incumbents Rief and Greene, despite all the outcry against how the school board doesn't stand up to Hutchings. I'm so done with ACPS and City of Alexandria residents.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope you review his book on Amazon when it comes out 6/16.

Since it appears that he's including that nasty and untrue accusation in his book it's clear that 1) he thinks it was ok to accuse parents of being privileged and responsible for the learning gap (there was already a huge one pre-covid) for keeping their own kids IN ACPS but it was fine that he had pulled his kid out for a partially open private school at 17K a year and 2) that he would get the last word on this.

Don't let him.

He wrote this book during the worst of the pandemic and his refusal to open schools to even the most vulnerable. He had zero concern about the learning gap because he'd already come up with his narrative. Parents were responsible for the gap. Not him. And he's sticking with it.

The school board was put on notice in the fall of 2020 that he was spending his time writing the book. The last school board and the current school board are also to blame.

So he's a hypocrite. How does this guy keep his job??

Uh, because we as parents vote in members of the school board who fall in line behind him and are afraid to hold him accountable. Yet we rail on and on every year about how he manages to keep his job despite his hypocrisy.

Parents also allow PTAC. Do a search of PTAC on this forum. You'll find multiple stories about the woman on the PTAC board who was banned from her kids school for celebrating her kid beating up another child and routinely harasses neighbors and parents. That is who represents you and signs glowing op-eds about Hutchings and ACPS.

I'm the PP you quoted; honestly IDGAF about PTAC. I hadn't heard about PTAC until I started browsing this forum.
A few years back, my DD's grade was a shitshow. Some prominent parents in the school's PTA had kids who were also affected. I attended the school's PTA meetings that year in hopes something would be done, but surprise, surprise: nothing happened. Hutchings outright refused on multiple occasions to hear about the bad stuff going on. Maybe I wasn't privy to some of the undercurrents, but during that awful school year there was no mention of PTAC.

Sounds like you should care about PTAC. They (and the PTA) are supposed to be advocating for parents and kids. There was no mention of PTAC because they don't help parents, they just use them.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but your reply just makes me care less about them. Do they hold any sway over Hutchings at all?

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Anonymous wrote:I hope you review his book on Amazon when it comes out 6/16.

Since it appears that he's including that nasty and untrue accusation in his book it's clear that 1) he thinks it was ok to accuse parents of being privileged and responsible for the learning gap (there was already a huge one pre-covid) for keeping their own kids IN ACPS but it was fine that he had pulled his kid out for a partially open private school at 17K a year and 2) that he would get the last word on this.

Don't let him.

He wrote this book during the worst of the pandemic and his refusal to open schools to even the most vulnerable. He had zero concern about the learning gap because he'd already come up with his narrative. Parents were responsible for the gap. Not him. And he's sticking with it.

The school board was put on notice in the fall of 2020 that he was spending his time writing the book. The last school board and the current school board are also to blame.

They don’t. The point is PTAC makes the system worse by just being “yes people” for Hutchings and drowning out parents’ legitimate concerns. They matter because they are such a negative force.
So he's a hypocrite. How does this guy keep his job??

Uh, because we as parents vote in members of the school board who fall in line behind him and are afraid to hold him accountable. Yet we rail on and on every year about how he manages to keep his job despite his hypocrisy.

Parents also allow PTAC. Do a search of PTAC on this forum. You'll find multiple stories about the woman on the PTAC board who was banned from her kids school for celebrating her kid beating up another child and routinely harasses neighbors and parents. That is who represents you and signs glowing op-eds about Hutchings and ACPS.

I'm the PP you quoted; honestly IDGAF about PTAC. I hadn't heard about PTAC until I started browsing this forum.
A few years back, my DD's grade was a shitshow. Some prominent parents in the school's PTA had kids who were also affected. I attended the school's PTA meetings that year in hopes something would be done, but surprise, surprise: nothing happened. Hutchings outright refused on multiple occasions to hear about the bad stuff going on. Maybe I wasn't privy to some of the undercurrents, but during that awful school year there was no mention of PTAC.

Sounds like you should care about PTAC. They (and the PTA) are supposed to be advocating for parents and kids. There was no mention of PTAC because they don't help parents, they just use them.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but your reply just makes me care less about them. Do they hold any sway over Hutchings at all?

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Anonymous wrote:I hope you review his book on Amazon when it comes out 6/16.

Since it appears that he's including that nasty and untrue accusation in his book it's clear that 1) he thinks it was ok to accuse parents of being privileged and responsible for the learning gap (there was already a huge one pre-covid) for keeping their own kids IN ACPS but it was fine that he had pulled his kid out for a partially open private school at 17K a year and 2) that he would get the last word on this.

Don't let him.

He wrote this book during the worst of the pandemic and his refusal to open schools to even the most vulnerable. He had zero concern about the learning gap because he'd already come up with his narrative. Parents were responsible for the gap. Not him. And he's sticking with it.

The school board was put on notice in the fall of 2020 that he was spending his time writing the book. The last school board and the current school board are also to blame.

So he's a hypocrite. How does this guy keep his job??

Uh, because we as parents vote in members of the school board who fall in line behind him and are afraid to hold him accountable. Yet we rail on and on every year about how he manages to keep his job despite his hypocrisy.

Parents also allow PTAC. Do a search of PTAC on this forum. You'll find multiple stories about the woman on the PTAC board who was banned from her kids school for celebrating her kid beating up another child and routinely harasses neighbors and parents. That is who represents you and signs glowing op-eds about Hutchings and ACPS.

I'm the PP you quoted; honestly IDGAF about PTAC. I hadn't heard about PTAC until I started browsing this forum.
A few years back, my DD's grade was a shitshow. Some prominent parents in the school's PTA had kids who were also affected. I attended the school's PTA meetings that year in hopes something would be done, but surprise, surprise: nothing happened. Hutchings outright refused on multiple occasions to hear about the bad stuff going on. Maybe I wasn't privy to some of the undercurrents, but during that awful school year there was no mention of PTAC.

Sounds like you should care about PTAC. They (and the PTA) are supposed to be advocating for parents and kids. There was no mention of PTAC because they don't help parents, they just use them.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but your reply just makes me care less about them. Do they hold any sway over Hutchings at all?

They don’t. The point is PTAC makes the system worse by just being “yes people” for Hutchings and drowning out parents’ legitimate concerns. They matter because they are such a negative force.

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I'm going to cross post this from another thread because it is relevant here too. I've heard that this is still how he treats some teachers, administrators and central office staff. This article in interesting on it's own but what is of particular interest is how he absolutely failed in Shaker Heights so naturally ACPS hired him.

Here's a snapshot of Greg's time in Shaker Heights from a WaPo article:

Educators supported the goal, but some were put off by Hutchings.

“It was clear to the staff that he was blaming us for the gaps,” said Sarah Davis, a white social studies teacher at the high school who started a summer program called Bridges to help black kids prepare to take AP classes. She said what Hutchings billed as a listening tour with staff felt more like a “lecture tour.”

One teacher who complained about Hutchings’s leadership was Podl, the AP English teacher. They clashed over his decision to push out the high school principal, and she says he once called her into his office because her “body language” at a community meeting was “inappropriate.”

After Hutchings chose a new principal over the candidate Podl and many faculty members preferred, she was at a tense meeting between Hutchings and teachers. Podl said she must have reacted to something someone said because Hutchings “screamed, ‘Don’t you roll your eyes at me! That’s disrespectful.’ ”

“I was a little bit of a marked person” after that, she said. “For Greg, he just wanted people to agree with him, and if you didn’t agree with him, you weren’t on his side.”

and this is how he closed out his time in Shaker Heights:

"At his final school board meeting last year, Hutchings took a swipe at his critics, urging the board and others to ignore parents who complain. "Most of my time is spent dealing with the ignorance that comes from adults," he said.

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https://www.alxnow.com/2022/06/08/behind-closed-doors-alexandria-school-board-proposes-peer-pressure-procedure-when-talking-to-media/

[Anonymous]

Well if the superintendent says the school system is in trouble because parents are ignorant and used pods then I would tend to believe him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well if the superintendent says the school system is in trouble because parents are ignorant and used pods then I would tend to believe him.

Hey Greg, you must have gotten sick of staring at your prom king pictures to come to DCUM tonight. You are a failure.

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Hutchings' book publishing date got pushed for the third time to June 28th. I'm still looking forward to reading and reviewing it.

Based on his Ed Week op-ed from months ago (I guess the ACPS comms team didn't anticipate the publishing date getting pushed almost two months out from the original date), it does seem like a laundry list of things he's never actually done in real life in a district he's managed.

I don't know how he explains the core conflict of being pro-SRO in Alexandria but advocating for policing to be removed from schools.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.alxnow.com/2022/06/08/behind-closed-doors-alexandria-school-board-proposes-peer-pressure-procedure-when-talking-to-media/

Why has AlxNow.com reporting suddenly shifted on Hutchings?

[Anonymous]

Dr. Hutchings resigned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Hutchings resigned.

Wow!

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It’s true he is out. Prayers answered.