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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yikes, this school sounds like a very toxic environment![/quote]

Episcopal has gone downhill since Rob Hershey left as Head of School. As other senior administrators and teachers have left, the environment has turned from a welcoming, southern charm/polite, and academically-rigorous boarding school into a mess of scandals and young and inexperienced teachers. The new head, Charlie Stillwell, cannot take a firm stance on any issue unlike Hershey and thus the campus has gotten a little out of control. The "Health Center" and "Board" practically own him which leads to his immoral and arbitrary decision-making.

[/quote]what kind of examples of this do you have?[/quote]

First, the "Politics Scandal," where a student posted a controversial opinion on her Instagram Story and received hateful comments, one even from a teacher. The school decided to punish the student in an attempt to please the liberal students and "blackatehs" account, but her parents involved a lawyer as she violated no school rules. Despite this, Stillwell continued on to punish the girl. The story made NATIONAL NEWS and several smaller outlets because Stillwell couldn't properly manage the situation. Conservative Alumni/Donors and the Board saw the news and were mad at him, so he retracted any sort of "expulsion" which was previously implied for the girl.

Second, the "Chikfila scandal," where the LGBTQ Club wanted to ban Chikfila from being bought on school dime for events. After meeting with the club, Stillwell agreed to this and a lot of students got mad. So a few days later, during an all-school Chapel, he retracted the Chikfila ban.

Next, Stilwell practically left the COVID situation all in the hands of Dr. Bravo. Her precautions and etc. were more strict than other boarding schools and made students/alum/parents mad but Stillwell didn't intervene as he'd given Bravo the rains for a while. At the end of the year, people were so mad that the board said either Bravo or Stillwell had to go. He should've intervened, but he didn't, much to the detriment of students' mental health.

I could keep going on about Stillwell...teachers who've been at the school for 10-50 years have been leaving in herds.

Anecdotally, I've had several children attend EHS between the Hershey and Stillwell era and the environment is drastically different. The student body is less courteous and much more "fast." Students respected Hershey and mimicked his "southern charm" and followed the rules more as he made sound decisions that couldn't be affected by the board and etc..his words reflected his actions. Stillwell has little respect from students which completely changed the campus feel. [/quote]

^this!!!! EHS wasn't all over the news for negative reasons until Stilwell took office. [/quote]
Is Episcopal having political issues, racial issues, LGBT rights issues, or all of the above?[/quote]

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