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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does the principal of SCES need to speak French? If so, that would seem to greatly limit the candidates. Agree with some PPs that the school desperately needs a strong leader. Nesmith was not it.[/quote]

No. And none of the past few principals spoke French either.

I personally think she was OK.  Maybe not great.  But I'm a parent and not a teacher and I think the teachers weren't super happy.

However, they appear to be filling the position by July 1.  How many "strong leaders" will they able to find in the next 5 weeks?   [/quote]

Certainly better than the short-timer she replaced.  He was the result of another rushed appointment from a late decision, though not this late in the year.  They ignored the community preference in facor of someone who would toe the MCPS CO line and act as a comms intermediary related to possible facility changes (in reality, he was just a barrier).

When he left after two years giving just 2 weeks notice towards the end of the summer (with his boss joining him in Washington County Public Schools shortly afterward), the community got pretty lucky that, in their scramble, they had to appoint someone with less of a Heisman approach.  She was in the middle of her principal internship at a MS, and it makes sense that she's moving on to one, now.

I'd imagine that lateness in assignment has to do with the multiple openings they have to juggle this year, and I hope that the result at least takes community interest into account better than 5 years back.  Their mechamism for that is awful, though, and completely performative, as mentioned by others, and the teachers need a supportive admin with the chops to handle the two programs.[/quote]

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