EAG: KENSINGTON, Md. – A Maryland elementary school principal who recently courted controversy with a “smash space” for teachers to take out their frustrations is now resigning her post.
Kensington Parkwood Elementary School Principal Barbara Liess created a “smash space” on the school’s loading dock last month where teachers could take our their frustrations by beating on a scrapped rocking chair with a baseball bat, WTOP reports.
Liess told parents she “got the idea after reading some business articles” about companies doing the same thing, and apologized for bringing the idea to school, calling the “smash space” a “lapse in judgment.”
The special area was “out of sight and sound of students,” Liess explained, and a sign posted by the station advised users to wear goggles and close toed shoes before taking a swing. But Kensington Parkwood PTA President Jessica Chertow and others complained to district officials that the idea sends the wrong message to students, Bethesda Magazine reports.
The article said she was selling real estate on the side and representing school employees. The smash space was a distraction from the ethical employment abuse.
Did it on the cheap.
http://mothership.sg/2017/05/spores-1st-rage-room-allows-people-to-destroy-things-for-a-fee/
You know how it is in Maryland: you gotta give those who wish to destroy space to do that. Am I right, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake?
Barbara Liess; appropriate name.