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The Board allowed all the drama to occur without any action. They seem to have botched their fiduciary duty. All have to go! We were oblivious to everything until our child's performance suffered. So we started to ask questions and had meetings (entire class of parents) and the previous principal was clueless. My sense is she came from a private school and was fairly overwhelmed by all the accountability that is required by public schools. You have to respond to parents with "real" answers and plans. She couldn't do that. There is no plan to be successful. I'd be looking at other options. This will not be fixed for a while. Don't be optimistic, be realistic!
Sorry but that makes no sense. Have you ever seen a DC private primary school? Private schools have entitled parents who pay top dollar for "accountability". There's no way you can last at a DC private primary school without dealing with entitled, helicopter parents and having accountability. So I have no idea what you're talking about
The only things "overwhelming" at SSMA are the compliance issues. And SSMA has someone who is supposed to be taking are of that. After all, the ED has hired layers of admin folks.
SSMA is still very much a school in transition. The Principal doesn't leave five weeks before the end of the year unless something very dysfunctional is happening behind the scenes.