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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The IS and the new principal were outside greeting students as they arrived at the school. Compare that to months and months of no one bothering to be there for the kids when they arrived. The one man assigned to the entrance just played on his phone the entire time, sitting inside.

This is not a big thing. But it is telling. Do I care about my kid being greeted? Yes, but mainly because it is correlated with a lot of other things I really care about but cannot observe as easily. [/quote]

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Johnson was asked, time and time again, to have staff greet the students each day to guide them into the school. It is a ritual worth practicing: each student learns "hey, I see you. I'm glad that you're here. Let's go have a good day together." Johnson had no interest. He didn't even bother to make sure Patterson was upstairs, albeit on a chair on his phone.

Likewise, [b]he was instructed[/b] time and time again (I can point to personal communications from back in February on this) to have staff out front of Safeway after school. He never bothered to do this until the fight videos started circulating, and even then he didn't do it with any reliability. During the fight two weeks ago, he was standing on the other side of the street, not at the bus stop / safeway as the commotion unfolded. He appears in the background in one of the videos.

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This is an example of the type of controlling parent behavior that will result in no qualified principal being interested in working at Hardy. Students have to be greeted at the door each morning as they had to go thru a metal detector and get their attendance taken ANYWAY. Therefor, telling a principal who has 3000 things to do that he has to greet students at the door is inappropriate, unless you're his boss. And how entitled does a parent have to be to "instruct" a principal greet their child at the door?  I can see why anyone interacting with this mind numbing group of parents would stop doing anything they asked.

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