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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or maybe not someone who was bitter and just willing to speak up. For whats its worth, the former pricipal had planning meetings twice weekly much to the chagrin of the teachers which is how they were authorized for IB and she left the collaborative planning schedule for the new principal to implement.  Additionally, PBIS has to have postivie interventions and clear consequences that change behavior in order to wrok.  I'd hardly say that coralling all of the students with challenges in a back room on the third floor daily, letting students run the building each day and allowing students to damage windows, doors and furniture consistently would hardly mean that PBIS is working.  Despite how much you try and weave a story, the building was much more in control under the previous principal.

The rub was parents didn't like the previous principal because she didn't' pander to the white middle class parents like they thought she should. They were treated like all of the other parents which they didn't like.  As a result they now have a new principal who does engage the middle class parents in a much different way than she did. So now shes being lauded as "making improvements and changing behavior." Reality is the balance of attention and priorities for Cooke is shifting from all students despite where they come form and come with to only the students whose middle class parents live in the building of the current principal and who can schedule an email appointment.[/quote]

PP, you clearly have information that others do not have. I am one of the middle class parents who you probably think that the principal caters to, though I'm not one of her neighbors. I would love to hear what you think the parents who you believe she DOES care about can do to improve things for the people who are being ignored.

I would love for this to be a productive conversation about how to improve a school with a lot of potential, rather than a pity party about how wonderful things were under the previous principal and how terrible they are now.[/quote]

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