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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People. Just remember that it’s just a school. It’s not like in Harvard the star professors are leaving.

There are enough talented people in dc to fill positions. Plus the people leaving might have very good reasons to leave. Smart teachers move to other jobs because simply they pay more. [/quote]

This is disingenuous. Unless, you are a lifer at Holton and don’t know any better. My kid has been at two different private schools with very, very little turnover. 
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Maybe the teachers there are unable to find better opportunities elsewhere. [/quote]

And by that logic Holton teachers are able to find better places to work, places run by true academics and visionaries, places where they are not spoken to with disdain or yelled at during meetings, places where there is not a constant fear of retaliation.

Many at Holton remember when the school WAS that type of place.[/quote]

I am sorry to tell you, but good teachers also change professions. Many times they prefer to do something else all together. It’s happening all around the county and not only in Holton. [/quote]

Actually, that's not happening at Holton. [/quote]

That’s exactly what the teachers I talked to told me. They leave for better opportunities. [/quote]

But they aren't leaving teaching. They are looking for better opportunities to teach in places where they will thrive, not where they will be constantly undermined and disrespected. Many chose to leave without even having a job in place. They just knew they didn't want to work with Penny.[/quote]

But it’s very simple. Instead of playing the blaming game, you can ask the board to conduct exit interviews to the faculty and ask a simple question: what changes in your contract would have encouraged you to keep teaching at holton. There will be a concrete answer to that question and then there could be an informed decision on how to make Holton a more attractive place to teach. Meanwhile teachers are more than welcome to search for better opportunities. Like any other parent at Holton. [/quote]

Numerous teachers and staff members have spoken to the board. Board members have repeatedly refused to do any such thing. They are not interested in taking any responsibility for the disaster they hired or doing anything meaningful to remedy the situation.[/quote]

Talking is meaningless. You just do a survey and share the results in the state of the school with the parents and then make an informed decision. Thats not hard to do. [/quote]

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