Open Letter about the Budget to the MNPS School Board

#Resist

The only thing keeping me going is the bright, smiling faces I see every morning in my class. Our principal is part of this new regime and much like the rest of them has no idea what they are doing. Our principal is hardly ever at school and when she is her lack of understanding of what really happens in a classroom is astounding. Did they even check references before being hired, or did they just rubber stamp her application like the rest? She knows which parents to suck up to so there will be major blowback with our PTO. But then again she knows the right people so she is “protected.”

I have seen several in my department actively look for positions in neighboring counties or they have already left this year. In less than two years they have taken what used to be a fun career and turned it into a nightmare. The reason why Bransford has a gym is becaus the majority of MNPS employees use it to work off the stress Felder & Narcisse have created. Change is good MNPS Board, but at what cost to your employees. Do you even care?

For the love of God can Anna Shepherd and Tyese Hunter wake the hell up!! This new administration is not healthy for the students, the district or your constituents. I don’t give a damn about Dr Joseph’s contract. I don’t give a damn about some “vow of silence” he had you sign. You both are running for re-election and I will not give a damn if you are soundly defeated for not stepping up for our kids.

Maybe these communication problems are indicative of the bigger problems within MNPS.

Thank you Jill and Amy. I hope the rest of your board steps up, joins you and quits playing games with our student’s futures.

Una Elementary Mom

Transparency and communication is strongly needed. Our children deserve better!

Antioch dad

I am simply another MNPS parent demanding greater transparency around the resource allocation processes/ justifications used for our schools.

Eakin Parent and concerned citizen.

Concerned parent at Explore Community School

I would like to see answers to these questions as an open letter to families in Metro Nashville Public Schools!

I would like to see answers to these questions as an open letter to families in Metro Nashville Public Schools!

Thank you for bringing this budget conversation back on track!

Dr. Joseph, Please don’t ask parents to look at the school budgets online and then ask principals questions. A question we should be asking instead is: “How can our principals make due with their limited budgets when they are forced to hire specialist and other unneeded mandates their schools may not need?” Another question that we need to ask is: “Why are there so many unfilled teacher positions in MNPS?” and “Why isn’t Nashville as competitive with teacher salaries as other similarly sized cities in the Southeast? Nashville has an extremely high cost of living and our teachers’ salaries are not competitive with other careers that require similar degrees, training and accountability.

Eakin and West End parent

We should be working hard as a district and as Metro Schools families to attract students to our schools, not turn them away.

We need to see the central office budget not only for this year, but for the past few years. We keep hearing about new high level central office positions...how are these positions improving our schools?

I am a parent concerned about Metro Schools and wish to see transparency in the budget that my tax dollars support.