Stantonsburg Elementary

Sadly, many of the excellent teachers who worked at Speight have begun to find jobs elsewhere and are being replaced by inexperienced beginning teachers due to the failure of the current principal to retain quality educators. On paper, Valerie Budd looks like she truly deserves her new title as Principal of the Year mainly due to low discipline and zero retention rates, but this isn't because there aren't problems like any other school. It's because there's no record. Students fail and get passed along. There are discipline issues that aren't recorded. One data record that can't be manipulated this year is the current test scores, which plummeted after the exodus of almost every department chair. While Valerie Budd will blame the current staff for this significant drop, she created the negative work environment that caused so many great educators to leave after dedicating majority of their careers to establishing relationships with the awesome parents and students of Speight Middle School.