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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Excellent BS’r is an understatement. Totally disenfranchised largely underserved AA community and when it looks like fairness will slither through she closes the door. Parents from all economic backgrounds and color have reached out to OSSE and even the Chancellor regarding the disparate treatment. DC only wants a warm body in the seat and is happy to have one that shows up and smiles apparently. PP is a mean girl and extremely passive aggressive. I smell a lawsuit coming if negligence of SPED and those lacking IEP’s due to understaffing isn’t addressed and quickly. [/quote]

The administration has done more to aggravate/alienate community members this year, and we are only in early September! School registration/renewal/disenrollmemt forms for current and former students weren’t processed all summer leading to a couple different challenges. Class numbers weren’t accurate, which lead to some teachers and parents not knowing class assignments until they arrived at school the first day. This also resulted in being oversubscribed in first grade by 20 students (a whole classroom’s worth!), and nearly as many in the third grade, without enough teachers or physical seats for the over enrolled students to sit in. The classes are oversized, resulting in a more challenging teaching environment. Disenrolled families were still getting notices for school and rumors of some others receiving calls from MPD for wellness checks due to prolonged absence of their “enrolled” children.

Most recently, in their first opportunity to build bridges to the school community, the administration kicked out the community members and PTO from the year’s first PTO meeting because the administration failed to coordinate adequate staffing of required DCPS personnel for the time of the scheduled meeting. I say administration because Miller wouldn’t show up and sent the AP to the meeting.

While there may have been hopes when she arrived (beginning of the thread) that this would be good, Miller has taken every opportunity to undermine the involved members of the community (PTO, LSAT, teachers). She continues to refuse to be a presence at school-related events outside of school hours that would give her any opportunity to meet parents and be present with them. She turns a blind eye to safety issues within the school (student-on-student assaults). She underserves those students with special needs at the school. She calls the police on her own staff for having impassioned conversations with her. On the whole, the teachers don’t respect her. Parents, when they do get a response after reaching out to her, are generally left disappointed or frustrated by the lip service and lack of action. She is the worst.

And the most frustrating part of all of this is that it doesn’t have to be this way. The school has amazing parent and teacher involvement. Community members want a principal that will just COMMUNICATE with them in an honest way and respond to their needs with empathy and understanding. They are looking for ways to help the school and have no shortage of volunteers, but are foiled at every turn by Miller.[/quote]

You sound a lot like a PITA parent. The role of a school is to teach the kids, not to be a forum for your “involvement.” Parents are not in fact entitled to every single detail and should keep their contact with the principal to the most necessary. Get empathy and understanding from your friends not your kids’ principal!

I am not an LT parent but was at a different Hill school. So no direct opinion on this principal but just observing that being a Hill ES principal must be HARD given the, erm, intense parents around here. [/quote]

Truth. Also a Hill parent and the intensity of many parents around school issues is a bigger issue for me than most administrative eff ups.

Also I am confused about the details offered here about enrollment and class assignment because we were on the waitlist for LT and saw steady movement throughout the summer even in July when most schools don't touch the waitlist because that's when admin go on vacation. So I'm not getting how the school could possibly not have processed enrollment and disenrollment if it was making waitlist offers.

Would be interested to hear from other LT families if they have the same opinion as the PP (and especially if those reports of overenrollment are true -- what are class sizes like) as we are high on the waitlist and had planned to take a spot if offered in September.[/quote]

1st grade was overenrolled without any real explanation so far, but definitely not by 20. There are 76 students across 3 classes. DCPS will tell you their ideal class size is 22, but up to 25 is considered standard sized; so there is technically only 1 student above the normal limit or 10 extra if we're looking at the DCPS ideal. 3rd grade is 25 or under in every class. L-T has historically had smaller class sizes, so these class sizes are unusual for us, but not actually that unusual for non-T1 DCPSes. I think the issue is that DCPS keeps making L-T add lottery slots based on what attrition was like years ago. Now that there's much less attrition (except between 4th and 5th like all Hill schools), we simply shouldn't be offering so many lottery spots.[/quote]

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