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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended the meeting with Wilson principal - she was very impressive and warm, and smart, I can see why she was selected hands down.  That said, having been around the DCPS block for a decade+, it is very clear that Kaya & Co. are making the rules.  This is not a woman who doesn't know her own mind, nor is she one who does not understand Leadership 101.  Add up the strange silence after the WaPo Beacon etc.., scheduling mishaps, new assignments for Wilson counselors and general mistrust by many based on the murky exit of Cahall points not to Martin but to downtown.  Nothing else makes sense.  She can't piss off her bosses, nor can she really express herself without their consent, further I think it was Kaya & Co. who sent her after the Beacon.  I hope Martin continues the open communication with parents, and begins to see this tightrope she is on is not because of any 2nd tier management or wild eyed parents, but because of the inept people at the top.  She needs all of our support so we may all make Wilson continue to work for our kids (and let's not forget, she has a 10th grader who is new to DC -- that's a leap of faith).[/quote]

I hope you're right about Principal Martin's potential prowess. And I think you're probably right that she's following DCPS central's lead and is unlikely to rock the boat so early in her tenure--she knows that making Kaya Henderson happy is far more important to her future than making the Wilson community happy.

But she has a history of picking fights with student publications, so it's hard for me to buy the idea that she's not fully culpable for the prior review debacle.[/quote]

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