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[quote=Anonymous]Here is my take on all of it.

I am not an unhappy parent at all and there are a lot of things I really like about Dr. B. She has tackled a lot of really tough things -- including the renovation-- as well as getting rid of some really terrible teachers and bad policies. I like her energy and her tirelessness.

I would posit that the trouble is not any particular policy or procedure (silent lunch is a good example, lots of parents and kids like it, lots don't) but rather her lack of communication about the policies and then her defensiveness to any parental reaction. Had she come out in September and said: "we're in a new building, the cafeteria is deafening and so we're going to try out this policy and see how it goes" parents wouldn't have heard about it from their children whose descriptions of the policy were not always accurate.

I think the other thing that makes parents uneasy is that many teachers complain that they are unhappy. While there's nothing a parent can or should do to manage a teacher-principal relationship, its very upsetting to hear your child's teacher describe feeling very controlled and not trusted by their supervisor. As a parent I'm not in that relationship and only hear things second hand from my child's teacher, but I want that teacher to feel supported and happy in their job so it trickles down to my kid.

I would like to find ways to make this principal feel more confident and trusting of both the teachers and the parents-- though I dare say this year didn't get us any closer to that. I think a lot of things will improve if and when trust can be rebuilt.[/quote]

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