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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So who do you want to be the principal at Haycock and why do you think any administrator in his or her right mind would take on the job?

We didn't have kids at Haycock, but I have a good enough memory to remember when the parents were attacking Kelly Sheers for not persuading FCPS to build a larger addition at Haycock and instead supporting the move of some of the AAP students to Lemon Road.  It seems the parents there are never happy. [/quote]

I was at haycock during that time and this is not how I remember it at all. Kelly Sheers listened to the parents. Parents were not angry at the principal in this case--they were angry at Janie Strauss.[/quote]

Nope. When she said she supported the move of some kids to Lemon Road, the parents went after her with a vengeance for “throwing kids under the bus.”  Granted, most of those families are now at Lemon Road, but that’s how they behaved while they were at Haycock.[/quote]And those parents were not originally at Haycock! They were from a feeder school that got placed at Haycock for AAP. So if you’d like to turn this into an across the board AAP parent issue, regarding multiple schools, fine. The take home issue at last nights meeting was unfortunately not just about changing a program, it was about the PTA(Parent Teacher Association) advocating for the teachers. Haycock is a good school, everyone wants the teachers to stay. Communication needs to be better(principal apologized and stated this several times last night). Respect between admin and teachers needs to be re-established.[/quote]

OK.  My distinct sense is that Haycock has a lot of high-achieving kids and parents who work themselves into a frenzy every few years and are quite comfortable expressing themselves without much of a filter.

IME that's not the case at Longfellow or McLean.  The principal at Longfellow doesn't put up with it, so the parents know that yelling gets them nowhere, and McLean is just more relaxed (perhaps because some of the AAP kids have peeled off to TJ and privates).

Good luck with your school and its principal - sincerely.  Hope it all works out for the best. [/quote]

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