Please help support our principals and stop the revolving door. Let PUSD know we are tired of it. Our kids deserve more stability.

Please copy the link below into your web browser and sign the petition to stop the reassignment of Conde.

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Please support our teachers, too, who often have to struggle with incompetent, bullying principals..We have some GREAT principals in Pleasanton...most of them, in fact, are superior..We also have the other kind..Hopefully Jim Hansen can weed out the latter.

All I can say is Walnut Grove is a MUCH better place right now with the addition of Chris Connor. He's brought a new life to the school that everyone so desperately needed. Good riddance to Jan Steed from our district. Time to move forward.

Yes, Chris Connor is great, from what I have heard..Could we please get more like him???????
He is the sort of principal we need and want in Pleasanton.

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Wow, you must hate our kids to post that sort of trash talk.. Most of the great teachers we have here in Pleasanton LOVE our kids...as do MOST of our principals...

We need a union to protect the principals in our district, just like the teachers and support staff have unions.

I do believe they "created" a position so they could move her out of Walnut Grove. And now she doesn't like it...oh well, move on then.

Those of you running to support Conde, you don't know the whole story. She has had many chances to correct the problems that she faces, and was unable to do it. There is a whole thread dedicated to this a couple weeks back.

And the "revolving door" of principals mentioned, is frankly not that uncommon. Site administration is a very, very hard job, and it's not for everyone. I considered doing it, even took the classes, but realized that was not a good fit for me for many reasons. Most of the changes in the last few years have been due to retirement (when Hansen left, he had been in Pleasanton for a long time, as had Whitney), and promotions to the district office. If you look now, there is decreased movement and more stability, but with seventeen schools, there will always be transitions happening. Being a site principal for more than ten years is very unusual.

Get the facts, why do you know the full story? Are you one of Conde's superiors? Diane Howell, Dr Odie Douglass or Jim Hansen? Because if you aren't one of those people YOU shouldn't know the whole story. The only people that should know the whole story of Conde's employment are the people she works UNDER and not her staff.

Teachers are not the supervisors of the principals, or at least they shouldn't be.

@ AnonName88, I do not know the whole story, I didn't say that I did. I agree that if you are not one the people mentioned above, or maybe a few others, you don't know the full story. But in the earlier thread about Conde (I can't seem to find it, or I would have posted a link), a Hart teacher posted about some of the problems at the site.

Generally when someone says "you don't know the full story" they are inferring they DO know the whole story. Thanks for clearing it up that you don't know the full story either.