Rebecca Greco, a librarian who worked at the school when Terrell was hired, said she does not recall any engagement with staff prior to the hiring of Terrell as principal. Greco also served on the site-based leadership team but now works as a librarian in a different school district.
She said the district did not make an effort to seek community feedback through virtual meetings or other formats, either.
“You could have gone to a community in good faith and said, ‘Look, we need a principal in place for the start of the school year. This is how we’re going to proceed. This is our reasoning. These are the ways you can provide input,’” Greco said. “But that’s not the way it happened.”
Greco is among the 24 current and former staff members from Southside Elementary School who filed a complaint against Terrell and the school’s assistant principal, Annabel Torres, this spring.
Parents of students filed a separate complaint in June, saying the current state of affairs at the school is at an “epic level of untenability.”
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Madison’s taxpayer funded k-12 system has a huge fall referendum on the November ballot….
Madison’s taxpayer (well) funded k-12 school district has not addressed boundaries in decades…
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