Anonymous
Post 07/04/2022 07:12     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just saw an announcement for my daughter’s elementary school… LCPS just hired us a principal with ZERO elementary teaching experience and a college degree from a place I’ve literally never heard of in my life. He was a middle school PE teacher for a few years. WOW. As a parent and a former teacher, I thought that the principal was supposed to be the instructional leader and be able to speak with experience to teaching students how to read and perform academically at high levels. It is hard to have confidence in LCPS’s pool of leadership candidates ATM and I am really bummed by this announcement… and feel for the teaching staff.


OH FFS you are the worst kind of parent. Jesus Christ, Almighty.


No she isn't. This is a reasonable concern.

If you have a child with an IEP who attends a school in LCPS, you get to know the vice principals well since they attend all the meetings. They work their butts off and are responsible for more than most people realize. In my child's time in LCPS I knew several who were trying to move up and they had to wait for a very long time. These were some of the best people I met in the school system. One of them is still a vp and should have been made principal long ago. I don't understand at all how experience as a pe teacher qualifies. I'd bet there are at least 5 better qualified, better prepared more capable vps who just got passed over. I never met a pe teacher in Loudoun who should be a principal.


It is NOT a valid concern. At all. OP’s opinions on this matter are 100% invalid. The person hasn’t even been in the job a week and OP has already concluded the principal will be a failure. Because why? Because of teaching PE?

Sit down. She is Exhibit 1 of bad parents.


Take your fascist yelling somewhere else. I can yell too. IT IS A VALID CONCERN.
It is interesting how you are forcefully trying to shut down a conversation about this. You sound like some kind of nut job fascist. She didn't say they'd be a failure but your denial that this person doesn't have experience necessary to take this job are ridiculous.

You clearly don't know much about the school system and this is situation is very unusual.



Darling, I have put two kids through LCPS.

You, on the other hand, seem like a blathering idiot. You really should not use words like “fascist” that you clearly don’t understand.

OP is not valid, full stop. Her opinions are stupid and reactionary and you are a class A MORON for suggesting otherwise.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 18:10     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our principal was a PE teacher and she is amazing. I wouldn’t count him out yet.


but probably moved up through the ranks and was a vice principal first?


How do you know this principal didn’t do the same? We don’t know the school or his name.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 15:10     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Anonymous wrote:Our principal was a PE teacher and she is amazing. I wouldn’t count him out yet.


but probably moved up through the ranks and was a vice principal first?
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 13:08     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just saw an announcement for my daughter’s elementary school… LCPS just hired us a principal with ZERO elementary teaching experience and a college degree from a place I’ve literally never heard of in my life. He was a middle school PE teacher for a few years. WOW. As a parent and a former teacher, I thought that the principal was supposed to be the instructional leader and be able to speak with experience to teaching students how to read and perform academically at high levels. It is hard to have confidence in LCPS’s pool of leadership candidates ATM and I am really bummed by this announcement… and feel for the teaching staff.


OH FFS you are the worst kind of parent. Jesus Christ, Almighty.


No she isn't. This is a reasonable concern.

If you have a child with an IEP who attends a school in LCPS, you get to know the vice principals well since they attend all the meetings. They work their butts off and are responsible for more than most people realize. In my child's time in LCPS I knew several who were trying to move up and they had to wait for a very long time. These were some of the best people I met in the school system. One of them is still a vp and should have been made principal long ago. I don't understand at all how experience as a pe teacher qualifies. I'd bet there are at least 5 better qualified, better prepared more capable vps who just got passed over. I never met a pe teacher in Loudoun who should be a principal.


It is NOT a valid concern. At all. OP’s opinions on this matter are 100% invalid. The person hasn’t even been in the job a week and OP has already concluded the principal will be a failure. Because why? Because of teaching PE?

Sit down. She is Exhibit 1 of bad parents.


Take your fascist yelling somewhere else. I can yell too. IT IS A VALID CONCERN.
It is interesting how you are forcefully trying to shut down a conversation about this. You sound like some kind of nut job fascist. She didn't say they'd be a failure but your denial that this person doesn't have experience necessary to take this job are ridiculous.

You clearly don't know much about the school system and this is situation is very unusual.

Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 12:54     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just saw an announcement for my daughter’s elementary school… LCPS just hired us a principal with ZERO elementary teaching experience and a college degree from a place I’ve literally never heard of in my life. He was a middle school PE teacher for a few years. WOW. As a parent and a former teacher, I thought that the principal was supposed to be the instructional leader and be able to speak with experience to teaching students how to read and perform academically at high levels. It is hard to have confidence in LCPS’s pool of leadership candidates ATM and I am really bummed by this announcement… and feel for the teaching staff.


OH FFS you are the worst kind of parent. Jesus Christ, Almighty.


No she isn't. This is a reasonable concern.

If you have a child with an IEP who attends a school in LCPS, you get to know the vice principals well since they attend all the meetings. They work their butts off and are responsible for more than most people realize. In my child's time in LCPS I knew several who were trying to move up and they had to wait for a very long time. These were some of the best people I met in the school system. One of them is still a vp and should have been made principal long ago. I don't understand at all how experience as a pe teacher qualifies. I'd bet there are at least 5 better qualified, better prepared more capable vps who just got passed over. I never met a pe teacher in Loudoun who should be a principal.


It is NOT a valid concern. At all. OP’s opinions on this matter are 100% invalid. The person hasn’t even been in the job a week and OP has already concluded the principal will be a failure. Because why? Because of teaching PE?

Sit down. She is Exhibit 1 of bad parents.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 12:50     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just saw an announcement for my daughter’s elementary school… LCPS just hired us a principal with ZERO elementary teaching experience and a college degree from a place I’ve literally never heard of in my life. He was a middle school PE teacher for a few years. WOW. As a parent and a former teacher, I thought that the principal was supposed to be the instructional leader and be able to speak with experience to teaching students how to read and perform academically at high levels. It is hard to have confidence in LCPS’s pool of leadership candidates ATM and I am really bummed by this announcement… and feel for the teaching staff.


OH FFS you are the worst kind of parent. Jesus Christ, Almighty.


No she isn't. This is a reasonable concern.

If you have a child with an IEP who attends a school in LCPS, you get to know the vice principals well since they attend all the meetings. They work their butts off and are responsible for more than most people realize. In my child's time in LCPS I knew several who were trying to move up and they had to wait for a very long time. These were some of the best people I met in the school system. One of them is still a vp and should have been made principal long ago. I don't understand at all how experience as a pe teacher qualifies. I'd bet there are at least 5 better qualified, better prepared more capable vps who just got passed over. I never met a pe teacher in Loudoun who should be a principal.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 12:42     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Which school is this op? It's useless to post this without that information so we can look up this guy.

I am not one of those people in that right wing group who look for every reason to attack LCPS but I would also not be happy to see this scenario happen.

In the past, there were Vice Principals who waited for years and years to get a Principal slot in LCPS. A VP should have gotten the slot.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 12:30     Subject: Re:New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
You’ll get over it. Or you won’t. But you can’t change it.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 12:30     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Anonymous wrote:Just saw an announcement for my daughter’s elementary school… LCPS just hired us a principal with ZERO elementary teaching experience and a college degree from a place I’ve literally never heard of in my life. He was a middle school PE teacher for a few years. WOW. As a parent and a former teacher, I thought that the principal was supposed to be the instructional leader and be able to speak with experience to teaching students how to read and perform academically at high levels. It is hard to have confidence in LCPS’s pool of leadership candidates ATM and I am really bummed by this announcement… and feel for the teaching staff.


OH FFS you are the worst kind of parent. Jesus Christ, Almighty.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 12:28     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Anonymous wrote:Our principal was a PE teacher and she is amazing. I wouldn’t count him out yet.


Hope so. But as a teacher who worked for an ex-music teacher principal, I will say that the feedback given to me during conferences was hollow at best and didn’t help me to improve. There a huge difference between being able to provide feedback that one might learn to give in a grad class, versus the feedback one would give when they have truly spent a career of actually doing the work. With ES being so focused on foundational reading and math skills, I just don’t understand why schools make promotions like this.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 11:46     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Thank him for being willing to leave a middle school PE job and go into administration. I am a high school content teacher and would never be a middle school PE teacher since I have a middle school aged child of my own or an administrator at any level. Rather than criticize, look at the salary scales and see how little administration makes for the hours they need to work compared to experienced teachers. Offer your support and hope for the best. Posting anonymous negative posts online is not helpful.

-teacher with over 20 years experience
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 08:11     Subject: Re:New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
The title of this thread is very misleading. He DOES have teaching experience. Do you have a job making headlines for clickbait?
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 06:18     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Our principal was a PE teacher and she is amazing. I wouldn’t count him out yet.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 03:53     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
If he was a PE teacher then he technically does have teaching experience. I assume you mean he has no experience in the assessed core areas which is a fair concern. He is not the only PE teacher to principal example in public school though. One thing public schools live to do is promote a white male teacher to leadership as soon as possible.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2022 01:19     Subject: New LCPS principal with no teaching exp.
Just saw an announcement for my daughter’s elementary school… LCPS just hired us a principal with ZERO elementary teaching experience and a college degree from a place I’ve literally never heard of in my life. He was a middle school PE teacher for a few years. WOW. As a parent and a former teacher, I thought that the principal was supposed to be the instructional leader and be able to speak with experience to teaching students how to read and perform academically at high levels. It is hard to have confidence in LCPS’s pool of leadership candidates ATM and I am really bummed by this announcement… and feel for the teaching staff.