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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no way I would send my child to a school under Aimee Holleb.  Get away from Key if you can.  If you had asked me 2 years ago, I'd have raved about Key.  Now, you won't find a single staff member who is honestly happy, discipline is a mess, class placement is super screwed up, and class sizes are a disaster.  (Some are 30 students, while others are 4.  FOUR).

Holleb is a narcissistic, manipulative, vindictive "leader".  Almost 1/3 of the staff quit last year.  Another 1/3 is trying to quit now.  Avoid.[/quote]

This. Nothing against this pyramid...I used to teach at one of the feeder elementary schools. However, I know that a LOT of the Key staff is not happy and if the staff isn't happy, great instruction is not happening.[/quote]

If this is the case, how come the Superintendent or the School Board has not jumped in to make a change at Key?[/quote]

She was removed from Twain years ago for the same complaints, and put in central office. Then central office eliminated her position, so they made her the interim at Key. They went through a whole dog and pony show about hiring a permanent principal. Staff was encouraged to write letters to outline qualities we wanted in a new principal. There were over 50 staff letters collected that said essentially, "Please don't hire Aimee Holleb. She is bad for Key because x,y,z." Staff who was on the "panel interview" for her said it was rigged from the start. It was basically her job to lose, and since she'd already been acting principal for 9 months she had all the "right" answers in her pocket. Then they announced she was the principal.

She is friends with the regional superintendent from way back, so terry dade is on team Aimee. The parent organization is not nearly as strong at Key as it was at Twain (no AAP parents), so their voice is less. I think central office needed to place her somewhere, and Key was likely to complain the least.

They've lost 3 teachers since school started. That's pretty bad. Surely central office is aware, I just think they're probably happy to have placed her somewhere.[/quote]

Not commenting on principal quality either way, but 3 is not a huge number of teachers to lose after a principal transition.  One of the top performing schools in that area, Sangster, lost around half of their staff in the two years after their new principal came in.  From reading this board, losing large numbers of teachers after a new principal arrives is not uncommon.  If the principal is a bad as you say and you have only lost 3 teachers, that is not so bad.[/quote]

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