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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Either AP is

friends with Principal or someone at CO
CO wanted this Principal to deal with new AP
CO had no other place to put this AP
School needed "diversity;-)" - a non black person in Administration (assumimg outgoing AP was white)
New AP has worked with families of special needs before 
Hired an AP who can deal with any incoming  complaining-rising-6th grade-parent/s
Other reason
All of the above

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Potentially a little bit of all of the above, but also she might just be good at her job.

I've seen the video of what happened at ESSES, and it was horrifying, but I also think the situation is more complicated than folks are portraying it. As someone whose job sometimes happens inside MCPS schools, I've attended a lot of trainings about how I can't project my white supremacist colonialist parenting norms onto communities of color. So, the fact that the child's mom was in the room, and that the police and the mom and the child were all Black and the administrator was white, makes this situation more fraught and complicated than it would be otherwise, for a white educator/administrator.

Add the lack of training that most of us receive on de-escalating cops in particular? I'm not saying the AP was right to let that situation go on, but I'm saying I believe she may have learned from the experience and be an asset to Silver Creek.

I'm also just kind of intrigued at while folks are so intent on going after the AP but not the police officers who did the actual yelling. There's something there, but I can't quite figure out what it is. [/quote]

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