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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private school teacher here. There is usually high turnover after a new head. Things will eventually settle. Seeing this at my school too, likely higher because of Covid exhaustion too. [/quote]

We're seeing similar at our school, and it will ultimately be positive. It takes a while for a new head to remove key administrators for performance or culture reasons. In the case of our school, the head spent one year assessing the community and culture and trying to understand its weaknesses, one year putting in a restructuring plan, and the end of that second year and beginning of the 3rd year putting performance plans in place for people who weren't actually doing their jobs (which became more apparent once the restructuring took place). Removing people from a school takes a very long time, especially when they are a protected class. Most schools do not have the ability to make swift personnel changes in the way that a corporation can, and you wouldn't want them to.

I'll also add that when there are cohorts with discipline problems that have gone unaddressed for multiple years, it often means that there is a culture problem that makes teachers unwilling to escalate to their leadership or families not getting a response from leadership when they have an issue. The SSFS situation sounds very similar to what our school went through and it took years to work through some of the quiet but toxic stuff that had built up.[/quote]

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