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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still. What people are saying that makes penny toxic are how most managers in private corporations work. So not sure what is the issue. Everyone knows that in my organization anyone can be replaced. It’s true that experience matters, but also performance matters and there are many competent teachers outside holton. So unless people can say something that is different from any regular company, then I cannot really tell there is any anomaly with penny. [/quote]

You realize that Holton is a non-profit school, right? The biggest (intangible) asset of a school is its teachers. Treating them badly is a recipe for disaster (eventually). [/quote]

What exactly is treating them badly ? To tell them they are replaceable or there is something more concrete ? [/quote]

There are obviously many reasons related to leadership that faculty and staff are leaving. Just because people don't list them here doesn't mean they don't exist. But people have said repeatedly on and offline that Penny is rude, dismissive, and abusive toward her employees. People have also reported yelling and humiliating employees. They've also noted her poor qualifications as an academic leader.[/quote]

Might or might not be true, but I am sorry to say this but welcome to the adult world. [b]Unless there is harassment there is nothing you can really do except resign[/b]. Disrespectful managers exist in all organizations I have seen.

How was the previous HOS? I heard the same type of comments about her. So maybe the problem is related to teachers complaining about the HOS. [/quote]

Right. And they have been, in unprecedented numbers

The issue is how that will impact students in and out of the classroom

Penny has significantly remade a school that many of us thought didn’t need remaking, and in fact chose specifically because of the culture that existed before her arrival

She now owns all the new hires. My fingers are crossed that all will be as good as before, I feel like this year will be pivotal in revealing [b]whether or not all the changes have hurt students’ experiences[/b] [/quote]

And if the kids are doing well, happy and thriving, because of the professionalism, talents, and skills of the teachers and staff that interact with them the most, it's okay to let those teachers and staff members be continuously maligned and mistreated by a HoS that costs a great deal and brings little of value???[/quote]

PP here - I think it's pretty clear that I am very skeptical of the HOS and sympathetic to the teachers but I am not in those internal meetings and cannot comment on her management style. I can only judge the Head's performance on the experience of my child.

If it turns out the Head has weeded out a lot of dead weight and brought in superlative replacements who enhance my child's experience, then a reasonable case could be made that her management has brought significant value to the school. If, as I expect, she has chased away talented, valuable educators who shaped and sustained the school's culture and replaced them with whomever she could find, and midway through the year parents are noticing that things in their kids' classrooms have gone downhill significantly, that too will provide the basis for me to evaluate the Head's management results. [/quote]

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