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[quote=Anonymous]Our child exited Lowell some years ago. We had serious reservations at the time about some institutional aspects of the school. Our worry was without swift course correction the dysfunction we observed would permeate down into the faculty and student body - perhaps not immediately, maybe not even in the medium term but eventually it would happen if things were just allowed to fester. Slow-moving as it may be, we could see a crisis approaching from a million miles away. Unfortunately, no sign of a course correction was forthcoming. Instead, if you cared to look early fissures began to show between top admin and the faculty. We didn’t want to stick around to take the risk even though our child was thriving and still very happy at the school.

At the core of it, we felt the HOS, board, and weird parent groupies of the HOS were living in a different reality to us. When we tried sounding out our concerns to a parent lead committee member we were gaslit, and made to feel as though we’re the ones off on another planet. That’s when we knew we could not stay.

While the merry lot of them were seemingly off communing in their sunny echo chamber, out in the grim real world things still bubbled along only because the faculty pulled out all the stops to hold the school together. Even under tremendous strain, and lack of clear direction from the woeful top the teachers kept showing up for the kids in the classrooms, continuing to do their best in a terrible situation. This enabled the facade of sunshine and butterflies to persist.

Reading this thread makes us truly sad because we loved Lowell, and continue to want it to succeed. We never stopped hoping our instincts were wrong even after all these years. If Lowell is indeed failing, it’s devastating that those who will be hurt the most will be the very people who staved off this slow-burning disaster from happening much sooner: the faculty.[/quote]

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