Breaking News - West Seattle High
Thanks to Yumpers for alerting us to this news: now all of the leadership of West Seattle High are leaving. This from the West Seattle blog.
It had previously been announced that the principal, Bruce Bivens, was leaving for a job in California. Now both the assistant principals are leaving as well, one to the Highline district while the other one has just resigned.
That a lot of leadership gone at once. Look for a lot of juggling of existing principals/vice-principals to WSHS and/or bring some out of retirement (I'm looking at you, Chuck Chin - Mr. Chin has come out of retirement at least once to take over a school.) That this comes so soon before school ends means we may not know for sure until school starts.
It had previously been announced that the principal, Bruce Bivens, was leaving for a job in California. Now both the assistant principals are leaving as well, one to the Highline district while the other one has just resigned.
That a lot of leadership gone at once. Look for a lot of juggling of existing principals/vice-principals to WSHS and/or bring some out of retirement (I'm looking at you, Chuck Chin - Mr. Chin has come out of retirement at least once to take over a school.) That this comes so soon before school ends means we may not know for sure until school starts.
Comments
Maybe these folks just don't want to be drones...they have too much pride and self-esteem for that.
There are far more cynical answers as to why we have this current principal crisis, but it is better discussed over a beer in a loud pub on a Friday night. Any takers?
go to this link http://www.petitiononline.com/S3B62010/petition.html
And join the Parents rally June 16 in support of our teachers.
Center School might not have a principal assigned for next year yet either.
Remember that Phil Brockman was acting Secondary Education head a while back before Michael Tolley.
I have a suspicion that Phil was more than happy to escape the JSCEE.
Dan
By all accounts, Mr. Brockman is well-loved by most staff and students at Ballard, and will be sorely missed.
Keven Wynkoop, one of the APs, will become Interim Principal. He, by the same accounts, is an up-and-comer who is a competent administrator who is quickly learning the many ropes.