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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate when people post vague references to some awful truth without actually saying anything. [/quote]

Parent here. I have volunteered in the art room a few dozen times this year for my son's class and two years ago when I now middle schooler was at Murch. I just had to chime in seeing as a lot of misunderstanding is being spread here and I feel I've gotten to be close to this teacher over the year and can speak on her behalf.

The art teacher did not resign because of the room change only. She was a pretty flexible person who would have make do with a room without water. To all who know her, it was pretty obvious that she loved the kids, the community and her job. Her own kids go here. She lives a block away. And she would have loved to stay in her community school has things not gone very wrong. As far as the sink, she was able to make my own kids make amazing art out of trash for goodness sakes. Obviously she was enough of an outside the box thinker and she would have been fine without a sink, had things not unfolded as they did.

As far as I know her leaving was directly triggered by a meeting with the principal. The principal called her into some interrogation meeting based on some untrue gossip or misunderstanding he got from another teacher. She strongly felt he was purposely trying to both humiliate and intimidate her by the way the meeting was set up, school secretary taking notes and door open, her crying. She was very shaken up from the experience and even three days later when I volunteered in her class, she could not speak of it without breaking down. I tried to change her mind but it was as if she's seen the devil. She just knew she could not do it.

Despite all the wonderful things he's been telling parents, including me, about her and posting on the website, I was shocked to learn that he has never once apologized to her personally for putting her through such a scarring experience; and all based on absolute garbage gossip. Who'd want to work for a hyper-paranoid leader whose target is on your back?  I could tell that it was a very hard decision for her to make.

It's unfortunate that the principal is as paranoid about gossip as he is for most of what I do hear about him is actually hopeful. I really hope next year he'll relax a bit and see that despite all the talk we all do, we all wish him well. As far as I know the art teacher is now very content with her new decision, so perhaps a new school year could begin where we all call to our higher selves and not fall prey to our weaknesses. I certainly hope this will be the only incident such as this.

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