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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work at Springbrook, and am aware of the letter but do not have a copy. The morale of the staff is abysmal, with constant micromanaging by the principal and her assistants. Armed with her two years of teaching art, it is laughable when she tries to dictate pedagogy to content areas. She shuts down and silences students who question administration. [b]Any bad publicity is covered up, from fighting and vaping, to mold in classrooms, to the three teachers dismissed in the last calendar year for inappropriate interactions with children[/b]. We have contacted the union for support, but we just get told to be patient and follow the process. Please, parents: complain. Complain about everything you don’t like, and send it to the superintendent, the Board of Ed, and probably the media at this point. [/quote]

She is not the only MCPS HS principal who does this. It appears to be the playbook for all of them.[/quote]

This is going on in a lot of high schools. The staff who speak out are dismissed by administrators as being negative. Principals especially seem only worried about their positions, the appearance of greatness, and fudging graduation rates. There is a huge failure to hold students accountable, clean up the mess going on, or keep people safe (passing students who never show up -- except maybe to sell drugs - there is Fentanyl in schools!!!!, allowing for "credit recovery" which really means that parents or someone else can do minimal "work"/assignments on the students behalf in an online platform outside of school with no supervision to "earn" credits for failed classes, there are 18-21 year old students in schools but year after year failing to make progress toward graduation, but wait - then they are suddenly promoted so that the data looks good, leadership funnels an exorbitant amount of resources to select populations, dismissing data that shows anything negative, bullying teachers into passing students, and on an on.) It's hard to believe them when they profess to "care" about students when you see the inner workings and decision-making. Is anyone trying to improve things for ALL of our children or consider the long term impact of graduating students ill-prepared for the world? The county has lost focus and there are a lot of us who feel helpless yet do the best we can in some pretty toxic environments.[/quote]

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