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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Idk. She is forcing out/driving away some good people (a very well loved SPED teacher for example) for next year. A lot of teachers and staff are unhappy. Even though they do want more consistency than we’ve had, they now have a principal who was never approved by committee and is ignoring the committees preferences on hiring/retaining in favor of people she knows. Maybe her picks are amazing. We’ll see…[/quote]

I just heard a credible rumor that matches this post. If true, later PPs were right that she’s not firing someone, so I don’t think forcing out is a fair description… but I agree with this PP that she made a very bad decision and the very well loved description is totally accurate. There is no constituency for this decision at all, so it’s not something that will [b]divide the community [/b]at least. It will just make people mad at her. If it’s really true that she ignored the committee (which seems likely given the decision), then it’s an especially bad call.

All of that said, it’s a single decision. I think she had done an admirable job before this and I hope that the teachers don’t turn on her over this. She should really get one normal year to show what the school would be like under her leadership.[/quote]

This kind of hyperbolic language is at once laughable and instructive. I do not doubt there are a small number of vocal teachers, admins or even parents who care about this and scream from the hilltops. But the idea that this would "divide the community"...FFS. Some of you people have way too much free time and energy to worry about such minutia. The vast majority of parents do not give a flying **** about this level of insider nonsense. [/quote]

I don't think "dividing" the community in this context is hyperbolic? I don't think PP meant, like, civil war... [b]just people taking sides[/b]. Pitting parents against teachers, especially, is not a helpful dynamic. Nor is something that people support or oppose on race or class based lines, especially in a very diverse community like LT.  A bad decision is just a bad decision sometimes.

I believe that LT has largely thrived even without stable leadership, so I would be upset if new leadership caused some sort of exodus. I still see nothing that makes me think that is the case.[/quote]

The number of people "taking sides" on some individua teacher deciding to leave (or getting run off - cause who cares) is like 8. They all just happen to have access to DCUM and megaphones. Leaders of all sort so of businesses change. And the powers that be and not the front line workers choose their successors. Because that's the world most of us inhabit (who don't work at DCPS or for the WTU) this doesn't remotely shock us. We don't care.

Or did you mean to reply to my accusation of hyperbole with concerns over a "mass exodus" ironically? In which case, well done![/quote]

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