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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She is great with complex administrative and logistical situations - the building renovation, opening during COVID (I believe Lafayette got the most kids back the earliest), generally operating 900+ student school. I’m sure that’s why DCPS wants her at Miner, given the upcoming changes there.

Miner parents - she will be good. She’s just not the “warm hug” we normally think of when we think of elementary principal. She’s also got a sarcastic sense of humor, which I rather enjoy, but I can imagine might be misinterpreted by others…especially anyone feeling vulnerable. Should she learn to communicate differently in those situations? Yes, but no one is perfect.

And yes, sometimes she can be overly guarded with parents. In some cases that isn’t deserved. [b]However, we have to recognize as a Lafayette community that there are also some parents here that are litigious, demanding, bat poop crazies.[/b] It takes a village. :)[/quote]

This right here. She was disliked by some parents at Lafayette because she wouldn't accede to every single one of their (often unhinged) demands. [/quote]

I am the PP who mentioned that the takes here were not nuanced. I want to stress that from talking with other parents, I do think that she ignored some very legitimate, non-unhinged concerns of parents. This was either because the concern was serious but specific to just 1-2 kids, so (I assume) not worth her time when she was tasked with governing a school of 900 kids, or because addressing the parents' concerns would result in disciplining or firing a teacher that was "high performing" in the sense that the teacher's students scored well on tests. That's not good and resulted in some really bad outcomes for individual families that I know and respect. However, the tradeoff is that her laser focus on keeping this giant school running smoothly and making sure test scores stayed high and low performers were weeded out resulted in a high-quality school that works for the vast majority of kids.

I really hope the new principal, whoever they are, can both keep the school running smoothly and also be more sensitive to parents' legitimate concerns. Hard to screen for that though![/quote]

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