BOARD WON'T REHIRE OFFICIAL; PRINCIPAL TO LOSE JOB AT MOORPARK.Byline: Paul O'Donoghue Daily News Staff Writer Max Friedman, the principal at Moorpark High School Moorpark High School, located in Moorpark, California, is a public high school in the Moorpark Unified School District and currently has an enrollment of 2,478 students.[1] , will be leaving when classes end in June because the school board declined to renew his $80,000-a-year contract. School board President David Pollock declined to say why Friedman was fired from the school, which gained prominence prominence /prom·i·nence/ (prom´i-nins) a protrusion or projection. frontonasal prominence last month by winning the prestigious national Academic Decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. . ``It is not appropriate for me to go into confidential personnel matters,'' Pollock said. ``That would be up to Mr. Friedman if he chooses to do that.'' Friedman, 47, who was working Wednesday, did not return phone calls for comment. Friedman was hired last fall and had previously worked as principal of the high school in Gilroy, Calif. He was the third principal at the school since 1986. He oversaw o·ver·saw v. Past tense of oversee. a range of issues during this school year, from the victory of the school's Academic Decathlon team to the outrage OUTRAGE. A grave injury; a serious wrong. This is a generic word which is applied to everything, which is injurious, in great degree, to the honor or rights of another. from some parents over a controversial AIDS awareness assembly at the school. Guy Aronoff, the spokesman for the teachers' union at Moorpark High, said he ``wasn't totally surprised'' that Friedman was let go. He said there had been difficulties on campus because of the school's rapid growth and associated problems such as overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. , changes in programs, and tension between some teachers and the administration. ``In a high school growing as fast as we are, it's a difficult job,'' Aronoff said. ``I know from talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to Max personally that he was stuck between a rock and a hard place'' In addition, others said Friedman was in a difficult position because he oversaw changes, such as a new board policy at the school that altered the requirements for students to take honors courses, that had been opposed by some teachers. But others said they didn't expect to see the principal let go. In the past 10 years, Moorpark's student population has grown from 600 to nearly 2,000 and the number of teachers has increased from 20 to more than 90, Aronoff said. He added that he found it easy to work with Friedman. ``He was open and I was able to talk to work with him. He was always open to discussion,'' he said. ``His interest was in protecting the staff and students.'' |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion