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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Madison band director is known to be very rough on kids during practices but he got congratulated for the band’s success, not canned. But there may have been other things going on at Annandale.  [/quote]

As someone who had a kid in Madison marching band, that occured to me when reading this story, too.   The things the Annandale director did are EXACTLY what the Madison director does, but people at Madison are okay with the competitive, band-is-everything attitude because they want the trophies (and the overall environment is pretty high-stress/high achieving so band doesn't stand out in that regard.)  If I believed that complaining about how the band director treated students would have changed things, I would have done it, although I think this situation sounds pretty fishy and definitely deserves looking into, if for no other reason than [b]it seems procedures weren't followed correctly.[/b]
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WTH are you even basing this on? One teacher's version of events?  Do you know anything about FCPS evaluation policies? If this guy was in his first three years, the bar to remove a teacher through the evaluation process is relatively easy within some very tight deadlines & procedures. Shawn DeRose wouldn't have been able to move forward with a dismissal without following everything to the letter. 
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