We the parents, grandparents, students, alumni and friends of Loudoun Valley High School do hereby petition Dr. Eric Williams and the Loudoun County School Board to remove Sue Ross from her position as principal of Loudoun Valley High School, effective immediately.
Sue Ross does not have the pulse of the students, teachers and families in this community. Ross has failed to effectively engage and communicate with parents, students and teachers on a consistent basis. As a current senior at Valley said, “I’ve seen more of the LVHS Principal yesterday than I’ve seen in all of my four years here.” She has failed at being honest and transparent about school safety. The students are not able to be educated to their full potential because Ross has been ineffective in maintaining and consistently enforcing discipline guidelines for the school.
There is no confidence in Sue Ross as principal due to an ongoing series of issues. She has bullied and belittled teachers, students and parents if anyone questions her authority and purpose. As an example, her handling of the ongoing bathroom vaping problem has been inadequate to say the least. Her lack of good leadership as a principal has been an impediment to students’ academic achievement. The climate survey reflects students are more stressed and anxious in Valley because of the non-disciplinary guidance and students going overboard on “wellness walks”, “hydration breaks”, “seeing friends in other classrooms” and “car passes” DURING class. Parents are concerned with the leadership not knowing where their teenagers are during school since it is a closed campus. Ross stated the students are just too kind to each other and open other doors in the building for their peers. When asked to see surveillance tapes of a pedophile who badged his ID into LVHS more than any other school, Ross and her leadership took two days to get back to law enforcement with the statement that the surveillance wasn’t working properly.
Ross’s lack of communication with parents about important matters such as death threats to the school, attempted suicides and concern for students’ safety was nothing more than a short email stating that these substantive issues are just a rumor. She has caused a great deal of concern and controversy because her statements are not consistent with what is actually happening in the school. Parents and student concerns are myth’s as Sue Ross tells a large group of parents. Instead of understanding parents’ concerns, Ross sends them Cease and Desist letters.
Principal Ross has failed to gain the trust and support of the LVHS community because of her inability to effectively lead LVHS. Over her many years, Ross continues to not back up the teachers in regard to disciplinary guidelines and academic expectations. As a result, teachers fear for their jobs and are very reluctant to speak up when things are not right. LVHS has already lost many good teachers because of Ross’ ineffective leadership and many more departures will follow if Ross is still principal. These teachers are the backbone of this high school and the only reason families aren’t moving out in droves. Our students need better leadership at LVHS. We can do better!
As taxpayers, citizens and parents, we are demanding that our concerns be taken seriously and met without resistance. We petition to remove Sue Ross from Loudoun Valley High School as principal.
Sincerely,
The Loudoun Valley High School Community
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019
The emails I keep receiving from families sharing their own experiences prove that this is a systemic culture issue. I am currently working on compiling these testimonies to present directly to the district office.
Reached 100 supporters
May 30, 2019
May 29, 2019
We are approaching 250 signatures. Please keep pressing because the school board needs to see this momentum.
May 28, 2019
Moving fast toward 100 signatures now. Keep pushing until we hit this milestone.
87 Comments
I am a rising 10th grader at LVHS, and for my first year of high school, I have never met Ms. Ross, until Loudoun Times Mirror exposed LVHS and Sue Ross and I am glad they exposed us, because she needs to go
I feel like Sue's actions are lowering the highest possible grades I can get with her, "individualized learning program" which is just teachers giving vaguer instructions for more complicated tasks. I want to write notes, study them, and take a test, old school.
A close personal friend (and fellow alum) was a teacher there until Ross’ approach and leadership style forced him to leave Valley for ethical reasons.
I do not feel comfortable with and Ross in charge at this school. I have seen the students walking the halls during what should have been instructional times, and there was no leadership to be found. She was in her office with the door closed.
I hold no ill will toward Ms. Ross, but the education of our students has been suffering under her leadership. She has lost the confidence of LVHS parents. teachers, and student. The best way to restore student trust and change the trajectory of the educational experience is to make a change in leadership.
My child has complained about Valley for years. My child an A student who wants to learn and has never been in trouble. The tipping point for us is that since this all has come to light over the last month, the school continues to disappoint. My child was going to leave for Early Dismal two weeks ago in the middle of the day, as an experiment my husband told our child to "just walk out, if something happens we'll cover you." So our kid did it (scared to death of getting in trouble), walked out of the school in the middle of the day, missed 2 classes. We expected a call/email or something, but nothing! I was shocked. Then just last week my child told me that the Prime teacher got up and left during the entire time in Prime, she actually told the kids she was going to Dunkin Donuts! Didn't come back till the end of Prime, but bought the kids a box of donuts so it was OK. What!?! Kids that came in for help on their final of course found no teacher available! The arrogance of a teacher to do that in this environment amazes me! Our kids told us they could tell 2 dozen stories like that, its not uncommon... If Sue Ross reads this and finds out who the Dunkin Donuts teacher is, that teacher won't be fired, nothing will happen, except Sue will probably get a donut next time herself....
She is not engaged at all. Let’s get some leadership back at Valley!
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We the parents, grandparents, students, alumni and friends of Loudoun Valley High School do hereby petition Dr. Eric Williams and the Loudoun County School Board to remove Sue Ross from her position as principal of Loudoun Valley High School, effective immediately.
Sue Ross does not have the pulse of the students, teachers and families in this community. Ross has failed to effectively engage and communicate with parents, students and teachers on a consistent basis. As a current senior at Valley said, “I’ve seen more of the LVHS Principal yesterday than I’ve seen in all of my four years here.” She has failed at being honest and transparent about school safety. The students are not able to be educated to their full potential because Ross has been ineffective in maintaining and consistently enforcing discipline guidelines for the school.
There is no confidence in Sue Ross as principal due to an ongoing series of issues. She has bullied and belittled teachers, students and parents if anyone questions her authority and purpose. As an example, her handling of the ongoing bathroom vaping problem has been inadequate to say the least. Her lack of good leadership as a principal has been an impediment to students’ academic achievement. The climate survey reflects students are more stressed and anxious in Valley because of the non-disciplinary guidance and students going overboard on “wellness walks”, “hydration breaks”, “seeing friends in other classrooms” and “car passes” DURING class. Parents are concerned with the leadership not knowing where their teenagers are during school since it is a closed campus. Ross stated the students are just too kind to each other and open other doors in the building for their peers. When asked to see surveillance tapes of a pedophile who badged his ID into LVHS more than any other school, Ross and her leadership took two days to get back to law enforcement with the statement that the surveillance wasn’t working properly.
Ross’s lack of communication with parents about important matters such as death threats to the school, attempted suicides and concern for students’ safety was nothing more than a short email stating that these substantive issues are just a rumor. She has caused a great deal of concern and controversy because her statements are not consistent with what is actually happening in the school. Parents and student concerns are myth’s as Sue Ross tells a large group of parents. Instead of understanding parents’ concerns, Ross sends them Cease and Desist letters.
Principal Ross has failed to gain the trust and support of the LVHS community because of her inability to effectively lead LVHS. Over her many years, Ross continues to not back up the teachers in regard to disciplinary guidelines and academic expectations. As a result, teachers fear for their jobs and are very reluctant to speak up when things are not right. LVHS has already lost many good teachers because of Ross’ ineffective leadership and many more departures will follow if Ross is still principal. These teachers are the backbone of this high school and the only reason families aren’t moving out in droves. Our students need better leadership at LVHS. We can do better!
As taxpayers, citizens and parents, we are demanding that our concerns be taken seriously and met without resistance. We petition to remove Sue Ross from Loudoun Valley High School as principal.
Sincerely,
The Loudoun Valley High School Community
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019
The emails I keep receiving from families sharing their own experiences prove that this is a systemic culture issue. I am currently working on compiling these testimonies to present directly to the district office.
Reached 100 supporters
May 30, 2019
May 29, 2019
We are approaching 250 signatures. Please keep pressing because the school board needs to see this momentum.
May 28, 2019
Moving fast toward 100 signatures now. Keep pushing until we hit this milestone.
87 Comments
We deserve to have a principal that isn’t playing on her phone during our “we are all human” assemblys. we deserve a principal that knows her students and isn’t bias towards her students as well.
I am a rising 10th grader at LVHS, and for my first year of high school, I have never met Ms. Ross, until Loudoun Times Mirror exposed LVHS and Sue Ross and I am glad they exposed us, because she needs to go
I feel like Sue's actions are lowering the highest possible grades I can get with her, "individualized learning program" which is just teachers giving vaguer instructions for more complicated tasks. I want to write notes, study them, and take a test, old school.
A close personal friend (and fellow alum) was a teacher there until Ross’ approach and leadership style forced him to leave Valley for ethical reasons.
I do not feel comfortable with and Ross in charge at this school. I have seen the students walking the halls during what should have been instructional times, and there was no leadership to be found. She was in her office with the door closed.
I hold no ill will toward Ms. Ross, but the education of our students has been suffering under her leadership. She has lost the confidence of LVHS parents. teachers, and student. The best way to restore student trust and change the trajectory of the educational experience is to make a change in leadership.
My child has complained about Valley for years. My child an A student who wants to learn and has never been in trouble. The tipping point for us is that since this all has come to light over the last month, the school continues to disappoint. My child was going to leave for Early Dismal two weeks ago in the middle of the day, as an experiment my husband told our child to "just walk out, if something happens we'll cover you." So our kid did it (scared to death of getting in trouble), walked out of the school in the middle of the day, missed 2 classes. We expected a call/email or something, but nothing! I was shocked. Then just last week my child told me that the Prime teacher got up and left during the entire time in Prime, she actually told the kids she was going to Dunkin Donuts! Didn't come back till the end of Prime, but bought the kids a box of donuts so it was OK. What!?! Kids that came in for help on their final of course found no teacher available! The arrogance of a teacher to do that in this environment amazes me! Our kids told us they could tell 2 dozen stories like that, its not uncommon... If Sue Ross reads this and finds out who the Dunkin Donuts teacher is, that teacher won't be fired, nothing will happen, except Sue will probably get a donut next time herself....
She is not engaged at all. Let’s get some leadership back at Valley!
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We deserve to have a principal that isn’t playing on her phone during our “we are all human” assemblys. we deserve a principal that knows her students and isn’t bias towards her students as well.