The hemorrhaging has already begun........On Friday we asked rhetorically "Will any teachers and students not return next year in part because of the fallout of what happened to Judie Rosa?"
Answer: SAA staff positions ALREADY DOMINATE the listings posted for the Chesapeake Conference on https://jobs.adventisteducation.org/
Check for yourself and you'll find the following positions open for next year (i.e. current teachers are leaving)
1. Third Grade Teacher (currently Mrs. Liza Da Cunha)
2. Fifth Grade Teacher (currently Mrs. Jennifer Carlson)
3. and 4?. (Middle School Teacher for Social Studies & Bible (currently Mrs. Amanda Walter for Social Studies; Does this also include Mrs. April Nixon for Bible?)
5. Guidance Counselor (currently Ms. Alexy Gatica)
6. Elementary Principal (NONE since 4/1/2021; before that Mrs. Judie Rosa)
7. Who's next?
8. How many more?
9. Will there be mixed grade classrooms for 2021-22?
So an unprecedented number of elementary teachers are all of the sudden leaving SAA. Has the CC, SAA's Board or Administration broken their silence since 4/1/2021? Or warned you for next year that the elementary school staff is being decimated, or why? Is this timing mere coincidence? Or is it the fallout of Judie Rosa's takedown on her team of elementary teachers who themselves must have lost trust and faith in SAA? If the teachers suddenly no longer view SAA as a healthy and functional work environment, how can we as parents trust it as a healthy and functional learning environment for our children? How long until more teachers leave? Which of your child's classmates will leave too? Here's the biggest question: Unless desperate, would ANY education professional KNOWINGLY walk into the dysfunctional carnage that SAA has become?
Maybe you're reassured by CC's and SAA's trademark silence of the past month that everything is fine, there's nothing to see here, and then move along quietly. But while you're deciding whether to place all your trust in their silence, or to believe your own 'lying eyes', remember this situation was brought to you by: Superintendent Janesta Walker, Principal Tissiana Bowerman, Board Chairperson Mark Noble, and the secret* members of the SAA Executive Committee and School Board.
* Don't believe they're secret? Email the board chairperson and principal for a list of board members. Post their answer in the comments.
- Lillian Hepburn-Richmond (a cohort of concerned parents)