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[quote=Anonymous]Returning to the original question of this thread...ACPS was sensitive to constructive criticism before Hutchings. Some parents liked to pretend that things were great when they weren't. But one didn't fear for their reputation if they questioned the status quo on even benign issues.

But there was a shift when Hutchings returned to ACPS. PTAC and their followers got increasingly vicious as did the school board (Cindy Anderson the former chair was really awful to parents who spoke out or just asked polite questions).

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 [b]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.”[/b]

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. [/quote]

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