In pp's defense. This was the third maternity leave in 4 years. It is a lot of time away, but I assume it happens at some point in the career do most female principals. It's definitely not a crisis, and a woman has a right to have children in whatever time frame and spacing she prefers.

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Anonymous wrote:The teachers are awesome and they care, the most important factor in a school's quality. The school has gotten smaller and will be smaller again next year. If you live in the community, then you know why it's so popular. My DC is thriving.

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell would anyone jump through hoops to attend Haycock? The school is busting at the seams and they herd those kids around like cattle. Ive never been so happy to move in my life.

I'm not so sure I would go so far as to say they care. I don't have a child there, but I watched one of the teachers testify at the school board meeting last year supporting the redistricting. She seemed to be acting like it was hard to do..but if she cared about those kids in her class at all, she would have fought for them, not against them. A teacher had no place taking sides in a situation like that.

If school personnel believe that it's in the best interests of students to be assigned to schools that aren't seriously overcrowded (or, to use the prior poster's phrase, "bursting at the seams"), they have the right to express their opinion in a public forum. Your suggestion that she was "taking sides" against students presumably was not how she viewed her comments at all.

I expect that one reason why the Haycock teachers recently expressed such satisfaction with working at the school is that they perceive their voices matter and are heard. If the message to teachers was just "put up and shut up," they would be an unhappier bunch, and then you or some other poster would be making a big deal out of that instead.

Is the principal back from maternity leave yet?

She was on maternity leave again???

Oh come on! I was impacted by the redistricting last year and lost respect for the principal then, but even I respect her right to have as many children as she wants and to take maternity leave. Let's be civil human beings.

Holt crap, we have officially gone crazy. I guess we can only hire male principals because God forbid a female principal chooses to build a family, she is raked over the coals. Real classy.

You guys are really touchy. Pp was surprised that the principal was on maternity leave, but I'm not so sure she was arguing against a woman's right to maternity leave.

Not either of the two posters to whom you're responding, but I think you're being rather charitable. The post came across as disrespectful of both the specific individual and the general principle of maternity leave.

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Anonymous wrote:The teachers are awesome and they care, the most important factor in a school's quality. The school has gotten smaller and will be smaller again next year. If you live in the community, then you know why it's so popular. My DC is thriving.

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell would anyone jump through hoops to attend Haycock? The school is busting at the seams and they herd those kids around like cattle. Ive never been so happy to move in my life.

I'm not so sure I would go so far as to say they care. I don't have a child there, but I watched one of the teachers testify at the school board meeting last year supporting the redistricting. She seemed to be acting like it was hard to do..but if she cared about those kids in her class at all, she would have fought for them, not against them. A teacher had no place taking sides in a situation like that.

If school personnel believe that it's in the best interests of students to be assigned to schools that aren't seriously overcrowded (or, to use the prior poster's phrase, "bursting at the seams"), they have the right to express their opinion in a public forum. Your suggestion that she was "taking sides" against students presumably was not how she viewed her comments at all.

I expect that one reason why the Haycock teachers recently expressed such satisfaction with working at the school is that they perceive their voices matter and are heard. If the message to teachers was just "put up and shut up," they would be an unhappier bunch, and then you or some other poster would be making a big deal out of that instead.

Is the principal back from maternity leave yet?

She was on maternity leave again???

Oh come on! I was impacted by the redistricting last year and lost respect for the principal then, but even I respect her right to have as many children as she wants and to take maternity leave. Let's be civil human beings.

Holt crap, we have officially gone crazy. I guess we can only hire male principals because God forbid a female principal chooses to build a family, she is raked over the coals. Real classy.

You guys are really touchy. Pp was surprised that the principal was on maternity leave, but I'm not so sure she was arguing against a woman's right to maternity leave.

Anonymous wrote:the Haycock's principal was/is/has been so noticeably biased to her personally favorite students, you have to wonder where or how she could get so much power in a public school and no one dares to complain about it? if you could afford Churchill ES, dont go to Haycock!

This is a serious charge and, in my experience, false. I wish you backed up your statements with facts. Or that you weren't anonymous.

Anonymous wrote:the Haycock's principal was/is/has been so noticeably biased to her personally favorite students, you have to wonder where or how she could get so much power in a public school and no one dares to complain about it? if you could afford Churchill ES, dont go to Haycock!

Yeah, I know. It's so crowded, no one wants to go there anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:The teachers are awesome and they care, the most important factor in a school's quality. The school has gotten smaller and will be smaller again next year. If you live in the community, then you know why it's so popular. My DC is thriving.

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell would anyone jump through hoops to attend Haycock? The school is busting at the seams and they herd those kids around like cattle. Ive never been so happy to move in my life.

I'm not so sure I would go so far as to say they care. I don't have a child there, but I watched one of the teachers testify at the school board meeting last year supporting the redistricting. She seemed to be acting like it was hard to do..but if she cared about those kids in her class at all, she would have fought for them, not against them. A teacher had no place taking sides in a situation like that.

If school personnel believe that it's in the best interests of students to be assigned to schools that aren't seriously overcrowded (or, to use the prior poster's phrase, "bursting at the seams"), they have the right to express their opinion in a public forum. Your suggestion that she was "taking sides" against students presumably was not how she viewed her comments at all.

I expect that one reason why the Haycock teachers recently expressed such satisfaction with working at the school is that they perceive their voices matter and are heard. If the message to teachers was just "put up and shut up," they would be an unhappier bunch, and then you or some other poster would be making a big deal out of that instead.

Is the principal back from maternity leave yet?

She was on maternity leave again???

Oh come on! I was impacted by the redistricting last year and lost respect for the principal then, but even I respect her right to have as many children as she wants and to take maternity leave. Let's be civil human beings.

Holt crap, we have officially gone crazy. I guess we can only hire male principals because God forbid a female principal chooses to build a family, she is raked over the coals. Real classy.

Haycock was fortunate to have had a retired principal who had previously been the principal at Timber Lane and Wolftrap fill in during the principal's maternity leave. Dr. Blain did a great job and Dr. Shears came back in late April.

The contract to renovate Haycock is scheduled to be awarded this week. So, yes, if you don't want to put up with construction for a couple of years, you should look at Churchill Road or another school - there are plenty of good ones in NoVa.

the Haycock's principal was/is/has been so noticeably biased to her personally favorite students, you have to wonder where or how she could get so much power in a public school and no one dares to complain about it? if you could afford Churchill ES, dont go to Haycock!

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Anonymous wrote:The teachers are awesome and they care, the most important factor in a school's quality. The school has gotten smaller and will be smaller again next year. If you live in the community, then you know why it's so popular. My DC is thriving.

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell would anyone jump through hoops to attend Haycock? The school is busting at the seams and they herd those kids around like cattle. Ive never been so happy to move in my life.

I'm not so sure I would go so far as to say they care. I don't have a child there, but I watched one of the teachers testify at the school board meeting last year supporting the redistricting. She seemed to be acting like it was hard to do..but if she cared about those kids in her class at all, she would have fought for them, not against them. A teacher had no place taking sides in a situation like that.

If school personnel believe that it's in the best interests of students to be assigned to schools that aren't seriously overcrowded (or, to use the prior poster's phrase, "bursting at the seams"), they have the right to express their opinion in a public forum. Your suggestion that she was "taking sides" against students presumably was not how she viewed her comments at all.

I expect that one reason why the Haycock teachers recently expressed such satisfaction with working at the school is that they perceive their voices matter and are heard. If the message to teachers was just "put up and shut up," they would be an unhappier bunch, and then you or some other poster would be making a big deal out of that instead.

Is the principal back from maternity leave yet?

She was on maternity leave again???

Oh come on! I was impacted by the redistricting last year and lost respect for the principal then, but even I respect her right to have as many children as she wants and to take maternity leave. Let's be civil human beings.

Holt crap, we have officially gone crazy. I guess we can only hire male principals because God forbid a female principal chooses to build a family, she is raked over the coals. Real classy.

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Anonymous wrote:The teachers are awesome and they care, the most important factor in a school's quality. The school has gotten smaller and will be smaller again next year. If you live in the community, then you know why it's so popular. My DC is thriving.

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell would anyone jump through hoops to attend Haycock? The school is busting at the seams and they herd those kids around like cattle. Ive never been so happy to move in my life.

I'm not so sure I would go so far as to say they care. I don't have a child there, but I watched one of the teachers testify at the school board meeting last year supporting the redistricting. She seemed to be acting like it was hard to do..but if she cared about those kids in her class at all, she would have fought for them, not against them. A teacher had no place taking sides in a situation like that.

If school personnel believe that it's in the best interests of students to be assigned to schools that aren't seriously overcrowded (or, to use the prior poster's phrase, "bursting at the seams"), they have the right to express their opinion in a public forum. Your suggestion that she was "taking sides" against students presumably was not how she viewed her comments at all.

I expect that one reason why the Haycock teachers recently expressed such satisfaction with working at the school is that they perceive their voices matter and are heard. If the message to teachers was just "put up and shut up," they would be an unhappier bunch, and then you or some other poster would be making a big deal out of that instead.

Is the principal back from maternity leave yet?

She was on maternity leave again???

Oh come on! I was impacted by the redistricting last year and lost respect for the principal then, but even I respect her right to have as many children as she wants and to take maternity leave. Let's be civil human beings.

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Is the principal back from maternity leave yet?

She was on maternity leave again???

Some reading material for you: http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-preg.html

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Anonymous wrote:The teachers are awesome and they care, the most important factor in a school's quality. The school has gotten smaller and will be smaller again next year. If you live in the community, then you know why it's so popular. My DC is thriving.

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell would anyone jump through hoops to attend Haycock? The school is busting at the seams and they herd those kids around like cattle. Ive never been so happy to move in my life.

I'm not so sure I would go so far as to say they care. I don't have a child there, but I watched one of the teachers testify at the school board meeting last year supporting the redistricting. She seemed to be acting like it was hard to do..but if she cared about those kids in her class at all, she would have fought for them, not against them. A teacher had no place taking sides in a situation like that.

If school personnel believe that it's in the best interests of students to be assigned to schools that aren't seriously overcrowded (or, to use the prior poster's phrase, "bursting at the seams"), they have the right to express their opinion in a public forum. Your suggestion that she was "taking sides" against students presumably was not how she viewed her comments at all.

I expect that one reason why the Haycock teachers recently expressed such satisfaction with working at the school is that they perceive their voices matter and are heard. If the message to teachers was just "put up and shut up," they would be an unhappier bunch, and then you or some other poster would be making a big deal out of that instead.

Is the principal back from maternity leave yet?

She was on maternity leave again???

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Anonymous wrote:The teachers are awesome and they care, the most important factor in a school's quality. The school has gotten smaller and will be smaller again next year. If you live in the community, then you know why it's so popular. My DC is thriving.

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell would anyone jump through hoops to attend Haycock? The school is busting at the seams and they herd those kids around like cattle. Ive never been so happy to move in my life.

I'm not so sure I would go so far as to say they care. I don't have a child there, but I watched one of the teachers testify at the school board meeting last year supporting the redistricting. She seemed to be acting like it was hard to do..but if she cared about those kids in her class at all, she would have fought for them, not against them. A teacher had no place taking sides in a situation like that.

If school personnel believe that it's in the best interests of students to be assigned to schools that aren't seriously overcrowded (or, to use the prior poster's phrase, "bursting at the seams"), they have the right to express their opinion in a public forum. Your suggestion that she was "taking sides" against students presumably was not how she viewed her comments at all.

I expect that one reason why the Haycock teachers recently expressed such satisfaction with working at the school is that they perceive their voices matter and are heard. If the message to teachers was just "put up and shut up," they would be an unhappier bunch, and then you or some other poster would be making a big deal out of that instead.

Is the principal back from maternity leave yet?

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Anonymous wrote:The teachers are awesome and they care, the most important factor in a school's quality. The school has gotten smaller and will be smaller again next year. If you live in the community, then you know why it's so popular. My DC is thriving.

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell would anyone jump through hoops to attend Haycock? The school is busting at the seams and they herd those kids around like cattle. Ive never been so happy to move in my life.

I'm not so sure I would go so far as to say they care. I don't have a child there, but I watched one of the teachers testify at the school board meeting last year supporting the redistricting. She seemed to be acting like it was hard to do..but if she cared about those kids in her class at all, she would have fought for them, not against them. A teacher had no place taking sides in a situation like that.

If school personnel believe that it's in the best interests of students to be assigned to schools that aren't seriously overcrowded (or, to use the prior poster's phrase, "bursting at the seams"), they have the right to express their opinion in a public forum. Your suggestion that she was "taking sides" against students presumably was not how she viewed her comments at all.

I expect that one reason why the Haycock teachers recently expressed such satisfaction with working at the school is that they perceive their voices matter and are heard. If the message to teachers was just "put up and shut up," they would be an unhappier bunch, and then you or some other poster would be making a big deal out of that instead.

Anonymous wrote:The teachers are awesome and they care, the most important factor in a school's quality. The school has gotten smaller and will be smaller again next year. If you live in the community, then you know why it's so popular. My DC is thriving.

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell would anyone jump through hoops to attend Haycock? The school is busting at the seams and they herd those kids around like cattle. Ive never been so happy to move in my life.

It's a good school, but does not actually feel any smaller this year. It's only about 60 kids smaller, if that.

Anonymous wrote:The teachers are awesome and they care, the most important factor in a school's quality. The school has gotten smaller and will be smaller again next year. If you live in the community, then you know why it's so popular. My DC is thriving.

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell would anyone jump through hoops to attend Haycock? The school is busting at the seams and they herd those kids around like cattle. Ive never been so happy to move in my life.

I'm not so sure I would go so far as to say they care. I don't have a child there, but I watched one of the teachers testify at the school board meeting last year supporting the redistricting. She seemed to be acting like it was hard to do..but if she cared about those kids in her class at all, she would have fought for them, not against them. A teacher had no place taking sides in a situation like that.