From the Washington Post comments...


My spouse has taught at Bailey's under Lemmon. Here is some additional information the Post should follow up on:

-- This is the third time Lemmon has been sued.

-- The 88% appproval rating was a farce. Lemmon summoned the faculty in advance of the survey and advised teachers that they would all be in trouble if there was a low leadership rating.

-- In my 50+ years in Fairfax County, as a student, parent, and spouse of a teacher, Lemmon is one of the top 5 most reviled school employees I've heard tell of. No one other than a few cronies at Bailey's and her previous elementary school has anything good to say about her.

Now that this story is out, the Post should do a follow-up story on the issues above, and interview current and former employees who previously would have been afraid to speak but now have some ability to do so. This principal is a toxic, self-promoting totalitarian who needs to be relieved of command.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a former employee of Bailey's. I am one of the 30-40 staff members that left that same year ML came to Bailey's. While reading my 31-page complaint, all I did was nod my head. Truth to all.

I absolute love Bailey's and the whole community but it got to a point that I was no longer happy. FCPS, shame on you for dismissing all the complaints filled against her prior to this lawsuit.

If that many left, that's a red flag right there.

Seems like it would have been covered at the time, if it actually happened, like the departures at Ft. Hunt.

Still can't square this with the positive teacher reviews in early 2014, which were completed anonymously.

They were completely anonymous?

Makes me wonder who actually completed them? The principal maybe? If everyone was fleeing, chances are great they couldn't have cared less about filling out a school review. They may have just wanted out!

All those incomplete reviews just lying around=opportunity for a principal lacking in integrity to play games.

Frankly, I'd believe the actual REALITY/that which can be seen (a mass exodus and formal complaints) over ANONYMOUS reviews.

FCPS contracted out to a third-party company to administer the survey and teachers used unique IDs to complete the surveys.

If you have real statistics on teacher departures, please cite them.

There are no unique ID numbers. Just a link.

Signed,
FCPS teacher

Sorry FCPS teacher, but you are incorrect. You were given a number on a piece of paper. It was embedded in a letter that was addressed to the school instructional staff in general--no names were assigned to any numbers or those letters. You could have traded your letter with anyone and used the number on the traded letter. Each number could only be used once.
Signed,
FCPS principal

And letters unused by teachers could be manipulated by unscrupulous principals.

You are so silly.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a former employee of Bailey's. I am one of the 30-40 staff members that left that same year ML came to Bailey's. While reading my 31-page complaint, all I did was nod my head. Truth to all.

I absolute love Bailey's and the whole community but it got to a point that I was no longer happy. FCPS, shame on you for dismissing all the complaints filled against her prior to this lawsuit.

If that many left, that's a red flag right there.

Seems like it would have been covered at the time, if it actually happened, like the departures at Ft. Hunt.

Still can't square this with the positive teacher reviews in early 2014, which were completed anonymously.

They were completely anonymous?

Makes me wonder who actually completed them? The principal maybe? If everyone was fleeing, chances are great they couldn't have cared less about filling out a school review. They may have just wanted out!

All those incomplete reviews just lying around=opportunity for a principal lacking in integrity to play games.

Frankly, I'd believe the actual REALITY/that which can be seen (a mass exodus and formal complaints) over ANONYMOUS reviews.

FCPS contracted out to a third-party company to administer the survey and teachers used unique IDs to complete the surveys.

If you have real statistics on teacher departures, please cite them.

There are no unique ID numbers. Just a link.

Signed,
FCPS teacher

Sorry FCPS teacher, but you are incorrect. You were given a number on a piece of paper. It was embedded in a letter that was addressed to the school instructional staff in general--no names were assigned to any numbers or those letters. You could have traded your letter with anyone and used the number on the traded letter. Each number could only be used once.
Signed,
FCPS principal

And letters unused by teachers could be manipulated by unscrupulous principals.

FCPS principal what were your scores?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a former employee of Bailey's. I am one of the 30-40 staff members that left that same year ML came to Bailey's. While reading my 31-page complaint, all I did was nod my head. Truth to all.

I absolute love Bailey's and the whole community but it got to a point that I was no longer happy. FCPS, shame on you for dismissing all the complaints filled against her prior to this lawsuit.

If that many left, that's a red flag right there.

Seems like it would have been covered at the time, if it actually happened, like the departures at Ft. Hunt.

Still can't square this with the positive teacher reviews in early 2014, which were completed anonymously.

They were completely anonymous?

Makes me wonder who actually completed them? The principal maybe? If everyone was fleeing, chances are great they couldn't have cared less about filling out a school review. They may have just wanted out!

All those incomplete reviews just lying around=opportunity for a principal lacking in integrity to play games.

Frankly, I'd believe the actual REALITY/that which can be seen (a mass exodus and formal complaints) over ANONYMOUS reviews.

FCPS contracted out to a third-party company to administer the survey and teachers used unique IDs to complete the surveys.

If you have real statistics on teacher departures, please cite them.

There are no unique ID numbers. Just a link.

Signed,
FCPS teacher

Sorry FCPS teacher, but you are incorrect. You were given a number on a piece of paper. It was embedded in a letter that was addressed to the school instructional staff in general--no names were assigned to any numbers or those letters. You could have traded your letter with anyone and used the number on the traded letter. Each number could only be used once.
Signed,
FCPS principal

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a former employee of Bailey's. I am one of the 30-40 staff members that left that same year ML came to Bailey's. While reading my 31-page complaint, all I did was nod my head. Truth to all.

I absolute love Bailey's and the whole community but it got to a point that I was no longer happy. FCPS, shame on you for dismissing all the complaints filled against her prior to this lawsuit.

If that many left, that's a red flag right there.

Seems like it would have been covered at the time, if it actually happened, like the departures at Ft. Hunt.

Still can't square this with the positive teacher reviews in early 2014, which were completed anonymously.

They were completely anonymous?

Makes me wonder who actually completed them? The principal maybe? If everyone was fleeing, chances are great they couldn't have cared less about filling out a school review. They may have just wanted out!

All those incomplete reviews just lying around=opportunity for a principal lacking in integrity to play games.

Frankly, I'd believe the actual REALITY/that which can be seen (a mass exodus and formal complaints) over ANONYMOUS reviews.

FCPS contracted out to a third-party company to administer the survey and teachers used unique IDs to complete the surveys.

If you have real statistics on teacher departures, please cite them.

There are no unique ID numbers. Just a link.

Signed,
FCPS teacher

Would like to add that 'unique ID numbers'= ability to ID teachers which is NOT anonymous.

Duh!

Nice try though, Ms. Lemmon

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a former employee of Bailey's. I am one of the 30-40 staff members that left that same year ML came to Bailey's. While reading my 31-page complaint, all I did was nod my head. Truth to all.

I absolute love Bailey's and the whole community but it got to a point that I was no longer happy. FCPS, shame on you for dismissing all the complaints filled against her prior to this lawsuit.

If that many left, that's a red flag right there.

Seems like it would have been covered at the time, if it actually happened, like the departures at Ft. Hunt.

Still can't square this with the positive teacher reviews in early 2014, which were completed anonymously.

They were completely anonymous?

Makes me wonder who actually completed them? The principal maybe? If everyone was fleeing, chances are great they couldn't have cared less about filling out a school review. They may have just wanted out!

All those incomplete reviews just lying around=opportunity for a principal lacking in integrity to play games.

Frankly, I'd believe the actual REALITY/that which can be seen (a mass exodus and formal complaints) over ANONYMOUS reviews.

FCPS contracted out to a third-party company to administer the survey and teachers used unique IDs to complete the surveys.

If you have real statistics on teacher departures, please cite them.

There are no unique ID numbers. Just a link.

Signed,
FCPS teacher

Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement lists name calling as the worst type of argument in a disagreement.

Anonymous wrote:Whats silly is your thinking that Ft. Hunt and Bailey's have anything in common.

You're an idiot.

Whats silly is your thinking that Ft. Hunt and Bailey's have anything in common.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a former employee of Bailey's. I am one of the 30-40 staff members that left that same year ML came to Bailey's. While reading my 31-page complaint, all I did was nod my head. Truth to all.

I absolute love Bailey's and the whole community but it got to a point that I was no longer happy. FCPS, shame on you for dismissing all the complaints filled against her prior to this lawsuit.

If that many left, that's a red flag right there.

Seems like it would have been covered at the time, if it actually happened, like the departures at Ft. Hunt.

Still can't square this with the positive teacher reviews in early 2014, which were completed anonymously.

Whats the difference between Ft. Hunt and Bailey's.....Ft. Hunt 50% White.......Bailey's 24%, which one do you think makes the rounds of the blogs/papers/news?

There has never been any shortage of publicity about Bailey's, particularly given its size and all the hoops FCPS had to jump through to find a place to expand its capacity. Your stream of innuendo is silly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a former employee of Bailey's. I am one of the 30-40 staff members that left that same year ML came to Bailey's. While reading my 31-page complaint, all I did was nod my head. Truth to all.

I absolute love Bailey's and the whole community but it got to a point that I was no longer happy. FCPS, shame on you for dismissing all the complaints filled against her prior to this lawsuit.

If that many left, that's a red flag right there.

Seems like it would have been covered at the time, if it actually happened, like the departures at Ft. Hunt.

Still can't square this with the positive teacher reviews in early 2014, which were completed anonymously.

They were completely anonymous?

Makes me wonder who actually completed them? The principal maybe? If everyone was fleeing, chances are great they couldn't have cared less about filling out a school review. They may have just wanted out!

All those incomplete reviews just lying around=opportunity for a principal lacking in integrity to play games.

Frankly, I'd believe the actual REALITY/that which can be seen (a mass exodus and formal complaints) over ANONYMOUS reviews.

FCPS contracted out to a third-party company to administer the survey and teachers used unique IDs to complete the surveys.

If you have real statistics on teacher departures, please cite them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a former employee of Bailey's. I am one of the 30-40 staff members that left that same year ML came to Bailey's. While reading my 31-page complaint, all I did was nod my head. Truth to all.

I absolute love Bailey's and the whole community but it got to a point that I was no longer happy. FCPS, shame on you for dismissing all the complaints filled against her prior to this lawsuit.

If that many left, that's a red flag right there.

Seems like it would have been covered at the time, if it actually happened, like the departures at Ft. Hunt.

Still can't square this with the positive teacher reviews in early 2014, which were completed anonymously.

Whats the difference between Ft. Hunt and Bailey's.....Ft. Hunt 50% White.......Bailey's 24%, which one do you think makes the rounds of the blogs/papers/news?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a former employee of Bailey's. I am one of the 30-40 staff members that left that same year ML came to Bailey's. While reading my 31-page complaint, all I did was nod my head. Truth to all.

I absolute love Bailey's and the whole community but it got to a point that I was no longer happy. FCPS, shame on you for dismissing all the complaints filled against her prior to this lawsuit.

If that many left, that's a red flag right there.

Seems like it would have been covered at the time, if it actually happened, like the departures at Ft. Hunt.

Still can't square this with the positive teacher reviews in early 2014, which were completed anonymously.

They were completely anonymous?

Makes me wonder who actually completed them? The principal maybe? If everyone was fleeing, chances are great they couldn't have cared less about filling out a school review. They may have just wanted out!

All those incomplete reviews just lying around=opportunity for a principal lacking in integrity to play games.

Frankly, I'd believe the actual REALITY/that which can be seen (a mass exodus and formal complaints) over ANONYMOUS reviews.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a former employee of Bailey's. I am one of the 30-40 staff members that left that same year ML came to Bailey's. While reading my 31-page complaint, all I did was nod my head. Truth to all.

I absolute love Bailey's and the whole community but it got to a point that I was no longer happy. FCPS, shame on you for dismissing all the complaints filled against her prior to this lawsuit.

If that many left, that's a red flag right there.

Seems like it would have been covered at the time, if it actually happened, like the departures at Ft. Hunt.

Still can't square this with the positive teacher reviews in early 2014, which were completed anonymously.