Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 20:03     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Anonymous wrote:We are a WSHS family who is sad to see him go… congratulations to TJ and Mr. Mukai!


Lots of WSHS faculty are thrilled to see him go. He was a snake in the grass. That's the best they could find for TJ? Yikes.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 17:40     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Darin Thompson to WSHS. That will solve two FCPS problems.


Who is Darin Thompson?


Current Hayfield principal


Why would he get transferred to WSHS?

That would be failing up for a principal who screwed up big time and got caught in a very public way.

Hayfield is a god school and deserves better. WSHS does not deserve to be downgraded like this. Transferring him just perpetuates the problems he helped create at Hayfield.

FCPS needs to be very thoughtful with who they replace Mukai with.

Sangster also had to replace a popular, successful principal over a dacade ago. The replacement principal was so different and awful, resulting in entire grades and departments of teachers leaving in her first couple of years. The staff turnover was outrageous at what had been a very content school.

FCPS eventually replaced her with one of the APs under the previous principal, which seems to be a much better fit for the culture of Sangster.

You would hate to see what happened at Sangster happen at WSHS.


I think you're taking a prior comment that was likely tongue-in-cheek a bit too literally. No one wants the Hayfield principal reassigned to their school.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 16:42     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Darin Thompson to WSHS. That will solve two FCPS problems.


Who is Darin Thompson?


Current Hayfield principal


Why would he get transferred to WSHS?

That would be failing up for a principal who screwed up big time and got caught in a very public way.

Hayfield is a god school and deserves better. WSHS does not deserve to be downgraded like this. Transferring him just perpetuates the problems he helped create at Hayfield.

FCPS needs to be very thoughtful with who they replace Mukai with.

Sangster also had to replace a popular, successful principal over a dacade ago. The replacement principal was so different and awful, resulting in entire grades and departments of teachers leaving in her first couple of years. The staff turnover was outrageous at what had been a very content school.

FCPS eventually replaced her with one of the APs under the previous principal, which seems to be a much better fit for the culture of Sangster.

You would hate to see what happened at Sangster happen at WSHS.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 16:35     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Darin Thompson to WSHS. That will solve two FCPS problems.


Who is Darin Thompson?


Current Hayfield principal
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 15:00     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Anonymous wrote:Why can't TJ finish the year without a principal?

Why can't Mukai finish the year at WSHS, so WSHS isn't the school going without a principal this year?


Which school is higher profile, has pushier parents, and gets written up on a monthly basis by local "journalists" proclaiming its demise?

Answer those questions, and you'll have your answer.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 14:46     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Anonymous wrote:I think it is cool that he was in the first class of TJ graduates!


The first class was mostly kids left over from the previous regime and before it was good.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 14:01     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Darin Thompson to WSHS. That will solve two FCPS problems.


Who is Darin Thompson?


They aren’t going to move someone. They need to do the whole interview process. I doubt we see new hire until end of year or next year.


It didn't take very long (only a month or two?) for TJ to get a new principal. While I expect that WSHS will have an interim principal for a little while, they cold get their new principal well before the end of the school year.


Even so, TJ should finish the year with an interim principal, and Mukai should finish the year.

Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:55     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Darin Thompson to WSHS. That will solve two FCPS problems.


Who is Darin Thompson?


They aren’t going to move someone. They need to do the whole interview process. I doubt we see new hire until end of year or next year.


It didn't take very long (only a month or two?) for TJ to get a new principal. While I expect that WSHS will have an interim principal for a little while, they cold get their new principal well before the end of the school year.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:48     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Why can't TJ finish the year without a principal?

Why can't Mukai finish the year at WSHS, so WSHS isn't the school going without a principal this year?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:40     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Darin Thompson to WSHS. That will solve two FCPS problems.


Who is Darin Thompson?


They aren’t going to move someone. They need to do the whole interview process. I doubt we see new hire until end of year or next year.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:35     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Anonymous wrote:Darin Thompson to WSHS. That will solve two FCPS problems.


Who is Darin Thompson?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 11:58     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Darin Thompson to WSHS. That will solve two FCPS problems.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 11:28     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
I think it is cool that he was in the first class of TJ graduates!
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 22:00     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
Anonymous wrote:He went to TJ. What a great opportunity for him.


And an even better opportunity for TJ.

I hope they give him a chance. Their AAP boatd has some crazy personalities on it.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 21:57     Subject: WSHS principal moving to TJ
He went to TJ. What a great opportunity for him.