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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Key is the smallest middle school and has the most discipline referrals of any middle school in the district. The special education department chair is very bad at her job. The staff has a lot of turnover most years. None of the admin have any special education experience, but there are a lot of special education students. The principal has only a couple of years of experience. The district has been sending more people in from the region to try to make changes. These struggling schools need the most experienced principals, not the least.

I would not send my child there. Lewis staff are frustrated with their Key kids due to the problems that have not been addressed. [/quote]

Are you referring to Key's newest principal after Aimee Holleb left? The new principal, Mr. Drew Campbell, had over 10 years of experience as an Assistant Principal within FCPS before he became Key's principal, including years as special education chair before he was an AP. He actually seems to be getting Key on track in the couple years he has been there.

The data you point out on most discipline referrals is quite interesting. The latest VDOE data, 2023-24, indeed shows Key with the most total events at 1635 even above Glasgow that has only 1097 events. 2023 was the year Drew Campbell became principal. In the years before 2023 with Aimee as admin, Key did not stand out in the data - even Frost MS was reporting similar numbers as Key. Seems to be the new admin is taking a hardline approach to report every single incident which is a good thing to drive change at Key. It's well known that some admin choose to report selectively so their discipline numbers stay low and reputation high.[/quote]

Former key teacher: Agree that campbell is a major step up from Holleb (who was awful in every way shape and form). She swept everything under the rug and let the kids run the school. Drew is trying to clean things up but it's a major hole to dig out of.[/quote]

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