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Principals in Seattle Schools - More Troubling News
The Board is scheduled to vote on the principals' contract (PASS) at Wednesday's Board meeting. Here's the agenda item. I have not read it but I'm sure it's the airtight instrument it always seems to be. Also disturbing - it's an Intro/Action BAR so very little time for any public input despite the deep and lasting effects that a principal can have at a school.Let's take this year's worst example - Emily Butler Ginolfi - the current principal of Washington Middle School. After her slash and burn style at WMS, which included flipping schedules at the semester break, posting in cafeteria students on detention list (which she denied being okay with but public disclosure docs show otherwise), limiting bathroom time as well as a hearing officer finding she had verbally abused a black Sped student, she is being exited at WMS. The climate survey for staff found the numbers plummeting. While the rest of the districts' school staffs said, by 71%, that their school had a "professional culture," just 31% of WMS staff said that.
And yet, she's being allowed to go somewhere else in the district but she has been demoted to being an assistant principal. Superintendent Juneau sent her a letter dated April 26, 2019 that says (in part):
Your specific assignment for the 2019-2020 school year will be determined once all vacancies for Assistant Principals are known. Although a precise Assistant Principal assignment cannot be provided at this time, you will be assigned to a position under the PASS Collective Bargaining Agreement......It ends with:
Thank you for your services as Principal at Washington Middle School this school year and I wish you success in your new assignment.Now, this doesn't mean Butler Ginolfi will stay in SPS; she might leave. But if she does stay, I can think of a couple of places she could end up.
Mercer MS is losing their principal and if they promote someone at Mercer to fill that position, that could mean an open AP spot there. Also, as I previously reported, two of West Seattle High Schools' APs have been busy created a charter high school which as approved by the Washington State Charter Commission this spring, so I suspect they will both be gone.
This is a pity for the next school community but perhaps with supervision, she'll do less damage elsewhere.
I have also heard that Bailey Gatzert Elementary is having principal issues with at at least a few parents giving up and changing schools. The principal there is Laurie Kazanjian and, apparently, staff voted no confidence in her. She's a novice principal that SPS chose to put at a Title One school with one of the highest rates of F/RL in the district AND she had allegedly had a previous "no confidence" vote at her prior school where she was an assistant principal.
Apparently many of the families who are unhappy are in the Somali community. The word was that they were planning a protest but it was not clear when that might happen.
As I have been reflecting over the years I have written the blog, I can say principals and principal placement has been consistently one of the top concerns for parents.
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