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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aurora Steinle is the interim ED.  She has a history of affiliation with the school, although I can’t remember how - maybe the Board?

We (a longtime TR family) were honestly thrilled when we heard the previous ED was leaving.  Things are fine under the interim ED - at least at a minimum we don’t feel like we are being misled by this one. [/quote]

She was the chief of staff. She's an ed policy person, not a teacher/educator. (not that it's necessarily a bad thing, just an FYI)[/quote]

To add some context, she's a bureaucrat. She's not a leader of anything.

I think TR will not exist in 8 years.[/quote]

Many of the HoS, principals, and EDs are stuffed shirts with two years of teaching and a masters in "educational leadership." TR isn't unique in that respect. [/quote]

TR was unique. The ED was a young AA woman who was "supervised" by a largely white Board. She wielded phrases like "equity" as a weapon to control them. To have asserted themselves would have exposed them to accusations of racism, and this Board suffers from the worst kind of liberal guilt; they'd rather have the ship go down than be accused of racism. In a field filed with stuffed shirts, she was unique. Years from now they will use her school facing comms as examples of how to say nothing in 5000 words.

Pedagogy matters in ECE. When you get to 3rd grade and up it is time to learn and manage classrooms. Hip phrases and philosophies don't really matter at that point.   [/quote]

NP here/former TR parent. Thank you for this honest assessment. This perfectly captures the entire mess. [/quote]

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