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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][quote=Anonymous]Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.[/quote]

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.[/quote]

By making TJ like any other high school?[/quote]

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I like the guy (and I liked Dr B too) but this is my sr TJ kid's complaint. They've been stripping out some of the things that makes it different. [/quote]

Like what?[/quote]

The entire culture at TJ has become very negative and toxic and this all a result of Mukai's lack of leadership. He doesn't respect his teachers and has shut them out and even the division leaders out of actual collaboration. Instead of coming in and getting to know the staff and the students first, he has dictated everything without any clear vision or justification. He flip-flops constantly to the point that teachers cannot trust anything he says and he bullies any teachers who question anything he says or does. [/quote]

All I have heard is that the culture at TJ has been negative and toxic in the 8 years I have been on this board. It doesn’t seem to matter who the Principal is or what they are doing, it is bad. [/quote]

As someone with direct experience for several years, the culture has taken a nosedive since Mukai took over. He is not a leader. That would require actually being present and caring about his staff and students.[/quote]

He's removed almost all channels for students and faculty to have meaningful dialogue about what happens at the school. Say what you will about Dr. B, and Dr. Glazer before her, but they allowed the SGA to have a voice, they had lunch time meetings with kids and town halls and were generally transparent and open to feedback. Mukai discontinued those meetings. The only kids' names he knows are the ones who win big stuff.  So if he doesn't know the kids, how is he to make decisions about curriculum that is actually in their best interest? Zero pulse on the community, it's kind of gross actually.[/quote]

Yes! All of this is true. Mukai avoids interacting with staff and students as much as possible. His excuse is that he is always pulled to Gatehouse or he blames the Collective Bargaining Agreement for his limited availability, which is absolute BS. He came into TJ saying that his door is always open and he is open to staff sharing different ideas and perspectives when the actual experience has been the complete opposite. He runs the school like a dictator. When staff try to share how overworked and overstressed they are this year, he just brushes off their concerns and says maybe they should teach somewhere else, instead of working to identify the root of the problems. [/quote]

Gee, he had such a good reputation among teachers at WSHS where he was principal before this.
I wonder what happened?  
Oh yeah, you're lying.[/quote]

TJ staff had also heard good things about him from WSHS and now they are wondering maybe they were just happy to see him leave. [/quote]

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