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Anonymous wrote:To the Springbrook HS staff: MCPS is fully backing Principal Valentine despite your complaints.

Taylor posted a photo of him cheesing with her at Springbrook's graduation alongside Chief of Schools Peter Moran, Associate Superintendent Donna Redmond-Jones:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxkm1TpQeo/?api=postMessage&img_index=4

Pay attention to people's actions and not just their words. I encourage Springbrook HS staff to go to the media with their complaints. There's no working inside the system to resolve these issues. MCPS always closes rank on their leadership circle.

Wow that photo is really telling. They are NOT showing up like that at other graduations. Why post it? Seems very insensitive of TT.

Yeah they are

No they aren’t. I’ve been to two already this year and this line-up was not present.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the Springbrook HS staff: MCPS is fully backing Principal Valentine despite your complaints.

Taylor posted a photo of him cheesing with her at Springbrook's graduation alongside Chief of Schools Peter Moran, Associate Superintendent Donna Redmond-Jones:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxkm1TpQeo/?api=postMessage&img_index=4

Pay attention to people's actions and not just their words. I encourage Springbrook HS staff to go to the media with their complaints. There's no working inside the system to resolve these issues. MCPS always closes rank on their leadership circle.

Wow that photo is really telling. They are NOT showing up like that at other graduations. Why post it? Seems very insensitive of TT.

Yeah they are

Anonymous wrote:To the Springbrook HS staff: MCPS is fully backing Principal Valentine despite your complaints.

Taylor posted a photo of him cheesing with her at Springbrook's graduation alongside Chief of Schools Peter Moran, Associate Superintendent Donna Redmond-Jones:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxkm1TpQeo/?api=postMessage&img_index=4

Pay attention to people's actions and not just their words. I encourage Springbrook HS staff to go to the media with their complaints. There's no working inside the system to resolve these issues. MCPS always closes rank on their leadership circle.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the Springbrook HS staff: MCPS is fully backing Principal Valentine despite your complaints.

Taylor posted a photo of him cheesing with her at Springbrook's graduation alongside Chief of Schools Peter Moran, Associate Superintendent Donna Redmond-Jones:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxkm1TpQeo/?api=postMessage&img_index=4

Pay attention to people's actions and not just their words. I encourage Springbrook HS staff to go to the media with their complaints. There's no working inside the system to resolve these issues. MCPS always closes rank on their leadership circle.

Wow that photo is really telling. They are NOT showing up like that at other graduations. Why post it? Seems very insensitive of TT.

Anonymous wrote:To the Springbrook HS staff: MCPS is fully backing Principal Valentine despite your complaints.

Taylor posted a photo of him cheesing with her at Springbrook's graduation alongside Chief of Schools Peter Moran, Associate Superintendent Donna Redmond-Jones:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxkm1TpQeo/?api=postMessage&img_index=4

Pay attention to people's actions and not just their words. I encourage Springbrook HS staff to go to the media with their complaints. There's no working inside the system to resolve these issues. MCPS always closes rank on their leadership circle.

Anonymous wrote:One is going to Paint Branch. Do we know where the others are going?

Anonymous wrote:Another Assistant Principal position posted for Springbrook today. That makes 3 APs leaving. Definitely a sign of toxic climate and no real change occurring in the school.

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s how MCPS works:
1. Bad teachers become principals
2. Bad principals get moved to Central Office
3. Central Office supervises principals
4. The cycle continues until something ends up on the front page of the Washington Post

I encourage the Springbrook staff to reach out to Alexandra Robbins. Anyone else with toxic school leadership should also speak to the media.

On point, on point. And when you look at how MCPS seems to look at this concept, they throw it all in the garbage can. There are some people who would work as good principals when you look at something like their LinkedIn, but who cares about that!

The only way to fix this is to incentivize great teachers by paying them more than APs and principals, it could work because for most of these people being out of the classroom is incentive enough to take less pay; most were horrible teachers and couldn’t hack it in the classroom. Alternatively, make it so only the finest teachers have a shot at leadership. There shouldn’t be a single AP or principal who isn’t at a minimum a nationally board certified teacher first. You’d get rid of the trash we have now and fill leadership with the cream of the crop.

My understanding is that Teachers in MoCo makes a lot more than schools in surrounding counties. Isn't it the case? Throwing money on a problem is never a solution. It should be merit/performance based

Anonymous wrote:When I was in college working volunteer with staff from mcps I got rave reviews and a 4.0 at UM whole working 1000 hours double time. When I was hired I pushed my 70 hours per week and couldn't get a positive review to save my life. Violence everyday and one of my students was raped by a sports team so some victims, rapists, and gang members were students. I felt powerless, unsupported, and retaliated for trying to help. Admin got promotions for covering up. Many teachers got fired for trying to help 😭. I will not return to education in America. Seems to be a money making fraud.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious - How is SB celebrating teacher appreciation week?

It was heralded as “Staff Appreciation Week.” Security, counseling, and the nurse won some award at the end of the day Friday. While we appreciate all of them, they each have their own weeks of recognition. This seemed like an intentional slight to downplay TEACHER Appreciation Week. A promise of ice cream, only to walk into a room with a table full of old Halloween Candy. Teachers were given expired chips and expired drinks. It was the perfect representation of how SV feels about the teachers at this school.

Usually the PTA does staff appreciation.

Usually there are efforts by both the school and the PTSA. Though I guess in schools where the PTSA is well resourced, they could very well handle all of the teacher appreciation week events.