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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: The Times Talks To Lowell Parents

Seattle Schools Community Forum: The Times Talks To Lowell Parents:


The Times Talks To Lowell Parents

The Times talked to parents at Lowell.  They also talked to Susan Enfield via SPS Communications. 

I can appreciate how tired the Lowell community must be.  First one split, then another, then a felon goes on a field trip, then Principal King says he's leaving, then he's staying and now this investigation that calls out both of Lowell's principals.  It's a lot.

And there are questions:

What led a special investigator to conclude that Principal Gregory King and Assistant Principal Rina Geoghagan mishandled the report? If they did mishandle it, why were they not fired? And why were the investigation's findings released after the close of the district's open-enrollment period?

What led the investigator was the evidence which was fairly clear-cut in terms of both principals being told about a behavior issue by one IA by a couple of staff members.  The principals never did an investigation and