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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm one of the PPs above and while I don't consider myself disgruntled, I was unhappy with the leadership and am willing to be very vocal about that. We left about a week into this school year when we got an offer from another charter. We were very committed to Montessori and would much rather have stayed at SSMA than left for a non-montessori school if I felt that SSMA could have been successful over the long term. There was so much we loved about the school, and I agree that communication has been better at the start of the year as compared to last. However, there is something so rotten at the core of this school, between Dr. R and her cronies on the board and in the administration, that I don't believe that the future is bright for the school. Our teacher was great and DS loved her but would she be back next year? Who knows? Who would be teaching in the elementary years? How is the school approaching testing? There are too many open questions that I don't trust Dr. R to handle appropriately and thus I can't leave my child there. I am very willing to talk about the good that I saw in the school, I'm not trying to bash needlessly, but parents need to understand that the problem isn't simply "lack of communication" about things like days off or whats going on in the classroom. The problem is an administration that cares about retaining power rather than truly doing working with kids and families to provide them with a safe learning environment and quality education.[/quote]

I'm totally on the same page here. We loved the community enough that we stayed four years. Ultimately though, Dr. R is such a selfish, petty, nasty person that we had to leave. We were big boosters of the school while we were there and were completely willing to ride out the many bumps that the school experienced. However, it became clear that we just couldn't trust her to stop making the ridiculous mistakes that she kept making. The whole thing was so absurd. I wish the school well, but wish Dr. R the worst.[/quote]

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