[Grovenet] Mario Alba NAMS principal resigned last night?????

[Holly Di]

Greetings all, I heard something that happened at the School board meeting last night and I am just wondering if 
anyone has any information.  

Mario Alba Resigned Last night.  Mario is Neil Armstrong's Principal.  

Does anyone know why?,  What direction the school is going?,  What timeline for replacement?  and IF and HOW
parents can become involved in helping the district choose a new principal?

It seems to come out of the blue,  At the last Community hall meeting he seemed resolute that he was going to 
be there next year.  We were discussing having some kind of advanced Language Arts classes instead of the 
"Honors Contract".


  IMO Math at the JR high has been divided and kids put in a level that challenges each student
instead of all the kids sitting in the same classes with the teacher challenging them to the level of the lowest student.
However currently Social Studies & Language Arts have not.  Our Teachers are great, but the district cant really expect
them to teach to all levels by using the technique differentiation.  We have too many students in each class room for that 
to work.  We have too many students who are in need of something to help them behave better in school. 

My daughter had a Honors contract in each of these classes, but became very disgruntled and upset and mad because 
the teachers only had time to teach the non honors items, and then just "toss" the honors kids their extra work, or in
Social studies - the non honors kids had more choices of topics to write about and the honors kids were forced to 
choose from three obscure and topics (that my daughter had no interest-when she wanted to write about a non honors
topic she was told she couldnt and it KILLED her interest in the project).


Anyway, my daughter is now going to a school near her Dad, its a Charter School that has about 20 8th graders in it.
Its very sad for me,  But, my daughter seems happier in that atmosphere so far.

Regards,

Holly