Beloved principal removed. Turmoil continues in DPS

Retaliation? Seriously? People really take you seriously, don’t they? And “beloved and respected” by parents and staff? You know this how? Conjecture by Esrati. Nothing new to see here folks, move along.

Well asswipe I’m no Estati fan but I do know both Belmont teachers and parents who talk to him so maybe you should stick to sucking your binky!!

Get a real job and stay out of conversations you know nothing about. If you had any real news to offer maybe the Montgomery County Courts and DPS would consider you a source of media. Instead your a source of humility and embarrassment.

Parents, students, teachers and administrators should all get and stay as far away from DPS as possible, as soon as possible.

DPS = CF

Oh Chuck, you clearly have nothing substantive to add. You know nothing of this situation, I do. Do your research, all that Mr Esrsti has stated is not based in truth. Sensationalized, distorted, and untruths are the name of his game.

Keep up the good work David. You know you are getting through when you have dedicated trolls on your site. I believe I used to be one and over time realized that even though I don’t always agree with your stance, it is very apparent that you care. And that you know more that any other media outlet.

This is the best thing for Belmont. Teachers and some students are scared to go to school. Assaults are happening daily, drug use, sex and absolute mayhem. There is no backing teachers. Kids are running the halls. Lolli is doing some cleaning up that should’ve been done back in October. Kudos to her. I’m not 100% sold on her as superintendent yet but she may win the staff over at Belmont with this move. Walter and Corr are in fact married and I wish them well. Only a handful of delinquent students loved Walter. Over half of the student body has no idea who she is because she hides in her office on a daily basis. No one really knows the real story and the hell we all have endured at Belmont.

To the unknown author: Kudos. You speak far more knowledgeably than Mr. Esrati’s conjecture. Thank you for sharing. Also, Andrew, I seriously hope you are not naive or ignorant enough to blindly believe the things Mr. Esrati says.

Walters has serious character deficits that affect her ability to manage a team of teachers and successfully lead Belmont.

Just one correction to this story…
“The two previous assistant principals at Ponitz had been removed after the teacher dragging incident.”
Neither of them have been removed. Both were present and accounted for prior to leaving for break and there was no signs of Ms. Walters.

Short trip back in time…October 2017, Rhonda Corr is Superintendent of Schools for Dayton Public Schools (DPS), has just received a glowing evaluation for the past year and was given a three-year extension to her contract. Teacher contracts were ratified before a walkout, she achieved grade of “A-” from an “F” preventing a state takeover, and bussing issues improved by her implementation of a call center. Things are going well for the district. Flash forward to late November, there are sudden and unfounded allegations of misconduct, and the School Board that was so generous in their offering of an extended contract was now out for blood. An integral part of this is Dr. Elizabeth “Libby” Lolli, Deputy Superintendent. Dr. Lolli spent the year aligning herself with the elected infrastructure of the Mayor’s Office. In this Machiavellian scheme of Lolli’s, she is made acting Superintendent, and can carry out the wishes of the Mayor’s Office, and also target those close to and loyal to Rhonda Corr, thereby eliminating the threat to the orders being given from the Mayor’s office, and installing a Superintendent and Board ready, willing, and able to follow the directives being handed out. It is common knowledge around the District that the Mayor’s office “calls the shots” in the District, and it is well beyond the purview of the Mayor’s office to do so.
Lolli, resident disillusioned Bible-thumper, self proclaimed intolerant of the LGBT members DPS employs, and hand-puppet of the city officials in the Mayor’s Office, waged a personal war against Corr, and anyone loyal to her. Lolli donned the traditional green of envy and jealousy, wagged her finger of judgment from her high moral ground, and using Storm Trooper tactics to wage this very public and extremely personal war, managed to help secure the allegations against Corr with the School Board, who are also hand-puppets of the Mayor’s office, and, who were also just less than thirty days prior so generous with compliments of Corr’s performance and a contract extension as a result of that performance. Quite a turnaround in so small a time frame, wouldn’t you say?
Amid the rumor, speculation, supposition, and slave to her own ambitions, Lolli secretly pinned a target to the back of former Superintendent Rhonda Corr (her superior in every way)for being, as we’ve all come to know from the very public scrutiny and witch-hunting tactics DPS is famous for of late, a member of the LGBT community. As mentioned earlier, Lolli, a self-proclaimed LGBT intolerant in private while wearing the mask of tolerance to the public, Lolli has taken the next step in the eradication of LGBT members of DPS from the District, and also those loyal to former Superintendent Corr, by turning her Storm Trooper tactics onto Ms. Corr’s partner, and beloved Belmont High School Principal, Melanie Walter.
But, before going after Ms. Walter, Lolli hedged her bet by appointing, through gritted teeth and the most fake of smiles, Shauna Welch as employee of the year. This is important to note because Welch is in fact also a member of the LGBT community. Now Welch is nothing more than a token of the school’s new Superintendent Lolli, and the award itself given to Welch is made meaningless when given by a discriminatory individual such as Lolli. It is an embarrassment to all those in the LGBT community and it can now be said that any progress made with acceptance in the last few years has now been made a mockery with this one intended, easy stroke. A semi-strategic move by Lolli and a feeble attempt at moving the chess pieces across the board before going on the attack against Walter, Lolli wants to appear as though she is accepting and tolerant of those who are proudly LGBT, while privately carrying out her “hit list” of all LGBT members in the district and replacing them with more religious, straight educators. Lolli’s timing is a bit off, though. Lolli obviously gave the award to Welch in an attempt to fool an otherwise unknowing public that she is tolerant of those who choose an alternative lifestyle, and made it look as though it was just another day presenting a fellow educator with a deserved reward.
Students, faculty, and staff have been visibly shaken by the news that Ms. Walter would not be finishing the school year at Belmont. Ms. Walter offered her resignation effective the end of the school year just two days prior to the announcement she would be taken out as Principal of Belmont High School. Citing parental complaints and the building being “out of control”, Ms. Walter was ordered to report to Ponitz as an Assistant Principal effective last week. It is of paramount importance to note that Belmont is grossly overpopulated by several hundred students, forced into the building by Lolli’s office. Ms. Walter made several requests for extra educators and SRO’s (security officers) for the building, but was told there was no money in the budget for such help. Ms. Walter also asked for enrollment to be closed in the building and was also told no to that as well. Lolli has not only intentionally set up Ms. Walter to fail but put the students at Belmont in grave danger with overcrowding and not enough educators and SRO’s. Now, it takes a team of 25 people to replace one Principal? 25 people because she has also placed targets to the backs of Ms. Walter’s entire administrative staff. Not for performance. No. Just for being a part of Ms. Walter’s staff. There are no performance issues with the Administrative Staff at Belmont at all yet it is another piece of misguided personal vendetta to send a message to all in the District there is a price to pay for being LGBT and/or a part of a staff that has an LGBT member as its leader. Only after Corr’s contract settlement does the attack on Ms. Walter come, in addition to Lolli’s discovering that Corr and Walter were joined in marriage last week, infuriating Lolli’s hatred of LGBT members even more. Lolli had local news media outlets in the pocket of the Mayor’s office call both parties asking for comment and well-wishing the union.
It is also of paramount importance to mention that one of the 25 member team sent to “lockdown” Belmont is a paraprofessional (a person to whom a particular aspect of a professional task is delegated but who is NOT licensed to practice as a fully qualified professional) at Kemp; Gary Armstrong. Armstrong has for the last seven-plus years carried on a romantic relationship with the Principal of Kemp, Stacey Maney. This relationship is common knowledge with the staff, students, and the community at Kemp. She has pushed for Armstrong to become an administrator, and more importantly, he REPORTS DIRECTLY TO HER! This is a clear violation of not only the Ethics Policy but also of Board Policy, and it goes uninvestigated by Lolli, who has clear knowledge of the relationship, and does nothing about it. Is it because the relationship fits into the norms of accepted behavior for men and women despite being against those high morals Lolli believes in so deeply that fuel her hatred of the LGBT community? Or is it yet more proof that Lolli has her own agenda and will stop at nothing to implement it? Didn’t Lolli have state audited financial issues at Barberton before she abruptly stepped away from that position? Libby dear, what goes around comes around and someone younger and more ambitious, more willing to follow orders from the Mayor’s office will be there to paint a target on you.

The principal was the best in our school! I am a student here and I want her back! She was the kindest,most honest hard-working person at my school and She would ALWAYS come in and watch us do our work. She made sure we were doing it! #IMISSMISS.WALTERS!

Beloved principal removed. Turmoil continues in DPS”…Just look at TMS operations

Rrrrr

I love Dayton public schools. I’m glad my kids go there. Best school district in the area

DPS students are so disrespectful! ……..They throw things at teachers, they fight, they scream the f word thousand times a day.
DPS Administration……Most of them are impotent and inept and most regards. Especially when it comes to any kind of effective discipline. Some administrators are better than others. It’s a shame they’re moving the principal out of Wright brothers. She was an excellent administrator and kept that place in good order!

Restorative justice? Yeah that’s a total joke! I would not waste another dollar on this program.

bad behavior starts in the home! no one would disagree the DPS has some rough kids. It’s a rough place to teach but you need staff who have some balls and going to stand up to difficult situations. Make the positive change that needs to be made and move this District forward.

Stop hiring your friends, your relatives and your family members.!! Unfortunately many DPS administrators wouldn’t know a good good teacher or administrator if it bit him in the ass. They just keep hiring the same recycled people over and over again with the same tired, dysfunctional ideas that never work.

the kids in DPS need continuity in the stability. This revolving door of moving administrators around year after year does not help the kids