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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the link to the article:

http://www.currentnewspapers.com/admin/uploadfiles/NW%2005-07-2014.pdf

So just to be clear- he wants to run a preschool- 8 neighborhood school in one location, a HS in another location, and a magnet HS in yet another location? HAvent there been a lot of problems with him trying to run just FS and SWW HS?[b] Talk about hubris![/b][/quote]

I was thinking the same thing.  That, and he's pushing his own agenda by getting his name in the NW Current.  Of course, that's a publication with zero political clout and a not-exactly-powerful readership base.  Because seriously, the NW Current is for lining the catbox.[/quote]

I don't think it's Hubris.  The Walls parents are breathing down his neck with demands not to combine F-S with Walls; so he needs the F-S kids to go to another HS in order to take pressure off his duties at his main campus.  Also, I've read nowhere that he actually enjoys dividing his duties between two schools -- I'll bet he'd be more than happy for a new principal to come in and take it off his hands.  He's a high school teacher; he doesn't want to deal with PK and K kids, through 8th grade.  There are differently qualified people out there to do that

I think he's raising Ellington as a possibility because it's centrally located between F-S and Hardy, and therefore is a prime location to draw students from

those two schools.  No one else has publicly suggested a possible NEIGHBORHOOD space for a new high school for Hardy & F-S to feed into.[/quote]

Right now FS and SWW HS are combined. He in no way wants to give up his duties at either school. He is a main force behind the whole merger. He is in opposition with the HS community about the merger. Right now he cannot just send FS students to the HS because it is application only. This new school he proposes would give their students a place to go. But don't think for one second he wants to give up running FS. He wants to run more schools, not the opposite. [/quotend
They are not even slightly combined.  They just share a name and a principal.  Thus, people are confused, and there is not proper leadership.  That does not a combination make.[/quote]

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