Petition to keep Mrs.D’Anna at James Hubert Blake High School
169 Comments
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Raven Charles
2 years ago
An amazing teacher!!!
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Solomon
2 years ago
She deserves to stay especially because of her amazing accomplishments that not even Blake staff has achieved.
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LJ Enloe
7 years ago
She is an excellent dance instructor.
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Marnika
8 years ago
I took her class and she is a very good person
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Christopher Koerner
8 years ago
I support this
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sara
8 years ago
I remember transferring to Blake my sophomore year and taking her classes was the only reason I stayed at Blake. I learned so much and everything I believed I couldn’t do, she proved me wrong. She’s an amazing influence and truly loves what she does, you won’t find anyone else like Ms. D’anna.
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kate
8 years ago
please keep her!!!
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Alan Cole
8 years ago
Has Bengal Pride become Bengal Embarrassment?
I’m thankful to learn that Mrs. D’Anna and Mr. Eising are no longer casualties of what we parents of students focused on the visual and performing arts might observe to be a long-term attempt to inflict pain on the very curriculum the county is so happy to point to as a Signature Program. We need for this program to remain vibrant and a point of
Blake pride because, contrary to haughty Montgomery County opinion, all high-schoolers are NOT future engineers and have neither the need nor desire to become calculus whizzes. Our non-Science, Technology, Engineering and Math offspring will make their positive marks in many other ways that need to be encouraged and developed here at Blake!
Blake Theatre, with its professional-grade shows that have showcased MANY of Mrs. D'Anna's dance students, is an expensive program to run in the first-class manner it has historically been (please come out and enjoy one if you haven’t!), but it has to be largely financially self-sufficient because of minimal county support – even in light of the county touting it as a Signature Program. Why has it been impeded in the ways it can raise and spend money to support itself, even to the petty extent of being required by the school to pay staff to sell tickets at performances and being denied its initial attempt to sell tickets online through the same service used by other area schools?
Why was the band denied the privilege of proudly representing Blake High at a state competition after earning the highest possible scores in local competition, with the rationale that students would miss class? Why was a sports team permitted to travel to a multi-day competition during which they, too, presumably missed class?
Why did we nearly loose two high-performing teachers at the whim of school- or county-level decision-makers, while at least one math teacher has been documented by parents to administration for years as being unable to even ex
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Keep her!!!
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Erica Mbong
8 years ago
We love mrs.danna plz keep her at Blake High School
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Anonymous
8 years ago
I began my dance training under Ms. D'Anna in my sophomore year, and continued to train ONLY under her instruction through until graduation. I now dance for Disney Cruise Line and have done so for 5 years, in addition to being a performance captain- something I never would have considered possible had Ms. D'Anna not made me Poms captain as a Senior.
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Judi Citrenbaum
8 years ago
Don't do this to Blake. This program makes Blake the school that it is!
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Sivanee Taylor-Mercado
8 years ago
Never went to Blake, but I did have the oppourtunity to have her as a dance teacher. It would be a shame if other young men and women didn't have the chance to experience such a kind and dedicated woman. She cares for her students as if they were her own children. I really hope this petition allows her to keep her position. Love you Mrs. D
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Ashley Nguyen
8 years ago
For a dance teacher to be removed from her position without a valid reason from a performance arts school is unjust. Dance is a form of escape and expression for students at Blake. It gives them confidence to put themselves out there and be assertive. To take that freedom and joy away from someone is wrong.
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Bailey Murrell
8 years ago
To get rid of such a creatively stimulating mentor..now that baffles me. She’s a pivotal influence in so many students lives-now careers. #BRINGHERBACK
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Jordan staggs
8 years ago
I love dance and we need her here to keep it alive
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Merlyn Knepp
8 years ago
Many changes have been made in
many states that eliminate special programs. These are programs we had many years ago. Where else do they find music,, art, , dancing?
An amazing teacher!!!
She deserves to stay especially because of her amazing accomplishments that not even Blake staff has achieved.
She is an excellent dance instructor.
I took her class and she is a very good person
I support this
I remember transferring to Blake my sophomore year and taking her classes was the only reason I stayed at Blake. I learned so much and everything I believed I couldn’t do, she proved me wrong. She’s an amazing influence and truly loves what she does, you won’t find anyone else like Ms. D’anna.
please keep her!!!
Has Bengal Pride become Bengal Embarrassment? I’m thankful to learn that Mrs. D’Anna and Mr. Eising are no longer casualties of what we parents of students focused on the visual and performing arts might observe to be a long-term attempt to inflict pain on the very curriculum the county is so happy to point to as a Signature Program. We need for this program to remain vibrant and a point of Blake pride because, contrary to haughty Montgomery County opinion, all high-schoolers are NOT future engineers and have neither the need nor desire to become calculus whizzes. Our non-Science, Technology, Engineering and Math offspring will make their positive marks in many other ways that need to be encouraged and developed here at Blake! Blake Theatre, with its professional-grade shows that have showcased MANY of Mrs. D'Anna's dance students, is an expensive program to run in the first-class manner it has historically been (please come out and enjoy one if you haven’t!), but it has to be largely financially self-sufficient because of minimal county support – even in light of the county touting it as a Signature Program. Why has it been impeded in the ways it can raise and spend money to support itself, even to the petty extent of being required by the school to pay staff to sell tickets at performances and being denied its initial attempt to sell tickets online through the same service used by other area schools? Why was the band denied the privilege of proudly representing Blake High at a state competition after earning the highest possible scores in local competition, with the rationale that students would miss class? Why was a sports team permitted to travel to a multi-day competition during which they, too, presumably missed class? Why did we nearly loose two high-performing teachers at the whim of school- or county-level decision-makers, while at least one math teacher has been documented by parents to administration for years as being unable to even ex
Keep her!!!
We love mrs.danna plz keep her at Blake High School
I began my dance training under Ms. D'Anna in my sophomore year, and continued to train ONLY under her instruction through until graduation. I now dance for Disney Cruise Line and have done so for 5 years, in addition to being a performance captain- something I never would have considered possible had Ms. D'Anna not made me Poms captain as a Senior.
Don't do this to Blake. This program makes Blake the school that it is!
Never went to Blake, but I did have the oppourtunity to have her as a dance teacher. It would be a shame if other young men and women didn't have the chance to experience such a kind and dedicated woman. She cares for her students as if they were her own children. I really hope this petition allows her to keep her position. Love you Mrs. D
For a dance teacher to be removed from her position without a valid reason from a performance arts school is unjust. Dance is a form of escape and expression for students at Blake. It gives them confidence to put themselves out there and be assertive. To take that freedom and joy away from someone is wrong.
To get rid of such a creatively stimulating mentor..now that baffles me. She’s a pivotal influence in so many students lives-now careers. #BRINGHERBACK
I love dance and we need her here to keep it alive
Many changes have been made in many states that eliminate special programs. These are programs we had many years ago. Where else do they find music,, art, , dancing?
Keep her Blake
Let the arts thrive!!!!
Who’s this principle tho???