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of these new processes.” She continued, “For not always ensuring that the sometimes steel message is delivered with a velvet hand, I apologize. For not always leading the way in helping to highlight the flexible thinking of turning problems into solutions, I apologize and sincerely pledge to you that I will do a better job of that.” Hatrick also told the school staff the School Board, on his recommendation, approved the reappointment of the full Loudoun Valley administration for next school year. “Appointment decisions are not made lightly, and they should be taken as indicators of my confidence in your work,” he said. School Board Vice Chairman Jill Turgeon (Blue Ridge), who represents the Purcellville area, said Tuesday the board did not endorse the superintendent’s decision to keep the administration in place and that she and other board members were “blown away” when they heard about Monday’s staff meeting. The board has never said the investigation is over—“that was 100 percent Dr. Hatrick’s words”—and has not taken a vote related to the investigation, she said. As part of its consent agenda May 13, the board did, however, approve the reappointment of about 9,000 employees for the 2014-2015 school year, and listed among those was the full administration at Loudoun Valley: Ross, Assistant Principal Stephanie Teague and Head of Special Education Supervisor Ella Hopson, who also had formal complaints filed against them. Turgeon said that action was only to continue employment of individual employees. “It was never the intention of the board, as far as I understand, to remove anyone at Loudoun Valley from LCPS. We were looking at possible reassignments…and bottom line is even if the desire was there for the removal of anyone, we never had a vote on it.”
Loudoun Valley social science teacher O.J. Lamp, who’s worked in Loudoun for 31 years, said he and other staff members felt insulted following Monday’s meeting. At least one teacher walked out in frustration before the meeting had ended, and others said they chose not go to the meeting because they did not want to be disappointed. “It is insulting that Dr. Hatrick asked our faculty to, as he put it, ‘stop the rumor mill,’ implying that there is no basis in fact for the grievances that have been offered by numerous teachers, and exhaustively detailed over the course of the several investigations that have been financed by this county’s taxpayers over the past couple of years,” said Lamp, who was interviewed by both attorneys as part of the investigation. “Some of the teachers who have aired their grievances, filed complaints, met with Dr. Hatrick personally, and cooperated with the investigations, are some of the finest people and finest teachers that I have ever had the pleasure and honor of working with.” Hatrick apologized to the high school staff for allowing the process to take as long as it has, but encouraged them to start a new chapter. He offered to work with the staff before and after his retirement June 30 “to close the current chapter and open a new one.” Layer said the LEA plans to address the full School Board Tuesday to urge them to clarify and streamline its employee complaint process. “We also are going to be seeking a change in the practice of allowing someone to remain in their position while they are under investigation by people working under them,” she added. “The issue at Loudoun Valley High School is that, because people stuck their necks out to talk to investigators and file complaints against the very administration that evaluates them and then waited almost a year to even have their complaints acknowledged, the trust factor has been so decimated,” she said. “To pull everyone together and say let’s start afresh would be an extremely difficult thing to do.” n
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