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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mr. Nelson has not worked at Wootton since December. This has everything to do with the poor staff climate created by the new administration...

"Out of the 27 high schools in MCPS, the school had the lowest satisfaction percentage for seven of the 15 survey questions."

https://woottoncommonsense.com/24714/features/administration-aims-to-rebuild-fractured-staff-work-culture/ [/quote]

This article doesn't really illuminate things.

The anonymous staff member SPECIFICALLY says the departures aren't due to the Nelson incident:

[QUOTE]“I think is telling to the drastic change in staff at Wootton and it wasn’t a direct correlation to what happened with Mr. Nelson,” an anonymous staff member who left said. “There are narratives being written and made about Wootton culture and staff and it got ugly and to the point that people didn’t want to be around it anymore.”[/QUOTE]

Honestly, it sounds like the mostly White staff are mad at the Wootton Black Student Union, and MCPS Central Office for believing them, for calling out the subtle and overt racism they experienced at Wootton that went unchecked and unanswered for so long. And once those accusations went public, those staff members are now in their feelings and claiming that they're not "being supported" because that conversation went public.

If that's the case, good riddance to bad rubbish then.[/quote]

Are you Central too? MCPS has a really really really bad habit of blaming others without an honest investigation.

You are part of the problem too. A whole staff is accused is being racist? Highly unlikely. And here you are doing the same thing?

This is getting out of control.  If you recall, a principal was recorded under oath stating that he lied about a white teacher being “racist”.  Guess who is 500k richer?

I hope the truth comes to light.  Because I am sick of MCPS making a mockery of due process and fair investigations.  Food riddance to the actual rubbish.  - CO [/quote]

No, I'm not CO. I 100% agree with you that MCPS absolutely is trash when it comes to due process and fair investigations.

But my comments about my conclusion from the article have to do with the fact that the article states staff were unhappy with: "narratives being written and made about Wootton culture and staff and it got ugly."

The only narrative I'm aware of about Wootton is the one around the unaddressed racism that was brought to light by the Wootton BSU. So that's why I'm saying it seems like teachers at Wootton are resentful toward those students. If there were other narratives about Wootton that were negative and implicated staff, then I'm not aware.

Again, that article is confusing, because on the one hand, it states that staff dissatisfaction is not necessarily correlated with Doug Nelson's ouster, but then their chief complaint is about the narrative about staff and the perception that kids could lie on them and admin won't back them up, which does seem related to Nelson's tenure....[/quote]

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