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Anonymous wrote:She resigned before she was fired.
She never wanted to be interim.

Troll! She came in from outside of DCPS and applied for the position. She actually wanted to stay at Shepherd. I suspect she is exhausted because of COVID. She did a lot of heavy lifting including giving out her personal phone number to families during the pandemic. She was truly amazing during that time.

As a family who has only experienced Shepherd during the pandemic, I don’t think we could have asked for a better principal. I was so sad to see her announcement, but not surprised. The last two years would have burned anyone out.

I blame WTU. They were the force that kept schools closed for the 2020-2021 school year, which resulted in learning loss, behavioral and emotional issues for kids, and a breakdown of parent/teacher relationships because many parents wanted their kids in school. Plus the union demanded a bunch of covid security theater protocols that created a lot of extra, unnecessary work for teachers. Of course it's harder to lead and teach now. I'm so angry because the teachers pushed to keep schools closed, demonized parents who wanted schools open, and now they're crying it's hard to teach due to the issues they created and are leaving.

Many teachers at Shepherd were very vocally opposed to returning to school, and they made it very difficult.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She resigned before she was fired.
She never wanted to be interim.

Troll! She came in from outside of DCPS and applied for the position. She actually wanted to stay at Shepherd. I suspect she is exhausted because of COVID. She did a lot of heavy lifting including giving out her personal phone number to families during the pandemic. She was truly amazing during that time.

As a family who has only experienced Shepherd during the pandemic, I don’t think we could have asked for a better principal. I was so sad to see her announcement, but not surprised. The last two years would have burned anyone out.

I blame WTU. They were the force that kept schools closed for the 2020-2021 school year, which resulted in learning loss, behavioral and emotional issues for kids, and a breakdown of parent/teacher relationships because many parents wanted their kids in school. Plus the union demanded a bunch of covid security theater protocols that created a lot of extra, unnecessary work for teachers. Of course it's harder to lead and teach now. I'm so angry because the teachers pushed to keep schools closed, demonized parents who wanted schools open, and now they're crying it's hard to teach due to the issues they created and are leaving.

Many teachers at Shepherd were very vocally opposed to returning to school, and they made it very difficult.

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Anonymous wrote:The turnover for principals in DCPS as a school system is high. They do not get the support or autonomy that they need.

And recruiting good talent is impossible.

Many people I see coming in are from charters.

Really because I haven’t seen that. Why don’t you give some examples of this?

What I see is DCPS tries to recruit people from within their system or promote people within their system because they have such difficulty recruiting from outside.

Not PP but the Shepherd principal (topic of thread) is from Charter.

Which charter?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The turnover for principals in DCPS as a school system is high. They do not get the support or autonomy that they need.

And recruiting good talent is impossible.

Many people I see coming in are from charters.

Really because I haven’t seen that. Why don’t you give some examples of this?

What I see is DCPS tries to recruit people from within their system or promote people within their system because they have such difficulty recruiting from outside.

Not PP but the Shepherd principal (topic of thread) is from Charter.

Which charter?

Anonymous wrote:The AP is out, too

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The turnover for principals in DCPS as a school system is high. They do not get the support or autonomy that they need.

And recruiting good talent is impossible.

Many people I see coming in are from charters.

Really because I haven’t seen that. Why don’t you give some examples of this?

What I see is DCPS tries to recruit people from within their system or promote people within their system because they have such difficulty recruiting from outside.

Not PP but the Shepherd principal (topic of thread) is from Charter.