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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ashlawn is a wonderful school. My kids have had 6 great main teachers and adore both art teachers, the librarian, and the gifted resources teacher so much. The extended day staff has a core group of employees that were there since before the pandemic. We ran into the counselor out of school and both my kids ran to say hi and introduce us to her.

My only concern is the new principal. I can’t put my finger on what bugs me about her but I feel like she doesn’t fit. Maybe it will take more time, but the last principle and VP were such a great team and you could tell how much they liked each other and how much the kids liked them. [/quote]

So you criticize her online, for some nebulous reason you “can’t put your finger on,” just because a new person doesn’t immediately re-create the chemistry of the previous “ principle and VP.”

I feel like there’s some reason phenomenal people are not willing to be principals and assistant principals. Just can’t quite put my finger on it.[/quote]

I’ll put my finger on it.  Won’t transfer special needs kids; has a train wreck 5th grade teacher with highest student absenteeism in history as parents do not send their kids to school and does nothing.  And that teacher has had half the class quit aps or find a way out through other means.[/quote]

It's possible the principal can't do anything about either of those things. I'm not going to touch the "won't transfer special needs kids" thing aside from reminding you this a public school that special needs kids can attend.  But the teacher issue- if this teacher isn't brand new, it takes A LOT to fire an experienced teacher. It's possible admin is collecting data and evidence to not renew this teacher's contract for next year but it would take something super serious like coming to school on drugs or physically abusing children to fire a teacher mid year- not being a train wreck.[/quote]

Our fifth grade teacher last year at discovery would leave our children alone in the classroom because she “needed a break” from the kids. She would tell the children how they were stressing her out. She told a substitute teacher that she hated the class. And so much more but the teacher never got fired. In fact, they just sent her to another APS school this year. [/quote]

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