Reply to Haycock Principal

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Haycock Principal"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haycock parent here.  To be clear, the mass exodus of teachers began after the first year of Jereme Donnelley as principal.  It continued into his second year.  While the parents never supported Jereme, the breaking point which led to his leaving was as a result of the remaining teachers coming to the parent community and asking for support and help.  jereme did not listen to our teachers or seek their opinions or guidance.  The parent community then decided to voice concerns on behalf of both groups (parents and teachers).

Since Augie has taken over as interim, our teacher turnover is incredibly low.  He, along with our strong asst principals, has brought much needed stability.  Scott Bloom was in the school as principal for all of two months and never really made a mark.  I can’t imagine he’s coming back.  Of course, we would love a new long term principal but given the priorities right now in a pandemic, I just have to hope Augie can see us through one more year.

I write this because so many people on these threads who do not have children at Haycock consistently make the argument that the parents are crazy and pushed the principal out as if it was done in a vacuum.  What we did was support our teachers.[/quote]

+1000.  Donnelly was an outlier and he probably needed better mentoring than he received from Region 2 leadership.  Other Haycock principals have had longer tenures and if you look at the principals of Longfellow and McLean both have been there a long time (12 years and 8 years) with comparatively little staff turnover.  [/quote]

Principals typically stay until retirement in the northeast. Why is 8-12 years considered long here?

And I’ve never heard a complaint about the APs. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics