Anonymous wrote:I am a Nottingham parent of a child with an IEP. I like the principal. She’s strict and new nonsense. She’s kind of old-school and I respect that. I think the culture at the school is tremendous. The teachers really seem to care about the kids and the PTA holds a lot of great events like multicultural night, stem night etc. I imagine Tuckahoe is similar. But we really enjoyed our time at Nottingham and my child needs seem to be being well done through his IEP.
excellent pointAnonymous wrote:Former Nottingham family here. This post caught my interest, so I went to the Nottingham web site to see how many teachers I recognize from our time there. There are just a few left from our time there! And we didn't leave that long ago. Most of the current teachers look very young like they just graduated from college. Some even have pictures of themselves in their caps and gowns. What is going on at NES for there to be SO much turnover?
thank you.Anonymous wrote:Former NES teacher here. There is a reason there has been so much teacher turnover - comes from the top.
Anonymous wrote:Nottingham is a great school. I've worked there for several years and love the admin, as well as the community. She cares deeply about her staff, but she has high standards of professionalism. I think she holds us accountable when it comes to communicating with parents and professionalism, but is lenient and forgiving when it comes down to real life issues. I feel like I always know where I stand and I appreciate that. She might not be the warmest, fuzziest boss in the world but if you see her interact with children in the school, you can tell that she deeply cares. I have never understood why people give her such a hard time.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A few years back there were a lot of complaints about treatment of kids with ieps at Nottingham. Might be resolved but i’d check around.
Doubt they are resolved since the issue is the principal and she's still there. Avoid.
Agree and if op wants specifics, I’m happy to share some.
Please share.
I was traveling and then snow days. So the principal of Nott was negligent to my SN kid and many others like them. While I was at her last school there were nearly a dozen families who were doing the following b/c of her and the other one. 1. asking for a transfer to any other ES. 2. Asking for private placement. 3. Filing complaints with the central office. 4. Suing. I did one of those four things.
While it is true EG has a doctorate and her dissertation was on autism, she has failed to keep up with the literature. Furthermore, she has stated untrue things about kids with SN whose needs are not being met. She also yelled at me which was highly unprofessional. However, given my job at the time, I switched into negotiator mode and calmed her down. She denied services to my child 4 years in a row and only gave a few watered-down services when a member of the team was leaving APS and was thus able to speak truth about needs without fear of retaliation.
While I'm not a teacher, I suspect that she might have been the type to retaliate or that might have been CB. Hard to say as she really was his help-mate.
Huge step down from MBP.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A few years back there were a lot of complaints about treatment of kids with ieps at Nottingham. Might be resolved but i’d check around.
Doubt they are resolved since the issue is the principal and she's still there. Avoid.
Agree and if op wants specifics, I’m happy to share some.
Please share.
I was traveling and then snow days. So the principal of Nott was negligent to my SN kid and many others like them. While I was at her last school there were nearly a dozen families who were doing the following b/c of her and the other one. 1. asking for a transfer to any other ES. 2. Asking for private placement. 3. Filing complaints with the central office. 4. Suing. I did one of those four things.
While it is true EG has a doctorate and her dissertation was on autism, she has failed to keep up with the literature. Furthermore, she has stated untrue things about kids with SN whose needs are not being met. She also yelled at me which was highly unprofessional. However, given my job at the time, I switched into negotiator mode and calmed her down. She denied services to my child 4 years in a row and only gave a few watered-down services when a member of the team was leaving APS and was thus able to speak truth about needs without fear of retaliation.
While I'm not a teacher, I suspect that she might have been the type to retaliate or that might have been CB. Hard to say as she really was his help-mate.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A few years back there were a lot of complaints about treatment of kids with ieps at Nottingham. Might be resolved but i’d check around.
Doubt they are resolved since the issue is the principal and she's still there. Avoid.
Agree and if op wants specifics, I’m happy to share some.
Please share.
Anonymous wrote:She's a liaison to the superintendent. Basically, making sure that fool does his job.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She's a liaison to the superintendent. Basically, making sure that fool does his job.
That sounds like a made up job to keep someone busy who should be fired.