The Fight For Mr Beatty! Part Ein « John’s Musical Life

The Fight For Mr Beatty! Part Ein

Well, our school has pretty much decided to “let Mr Beatty go”. But they will not tell us why! I emailed Dr Scuzzarella and got back the typical administrative response. Here’s what I posted on Facebook:

I emailed Dr. Scuzzarella.

“Mr. Beatty announced to us after the concert that you were “letting him go”.

I would just like to know why!

I thought he was a great teacher who really knew his stuff when it came to marching and concert band. We came so close to five gold stars this year, and he had plans for a show that would get us that rating this year!

What happened? Did someone complain? Because that could be massively balanced out by the number of people (the entire band) who LOVE him! If you had come in to class and told us yourself you would have seen just how many people do not want to see him leave!

John Baylies

Class of 2010″

Here’s what I got back:

“Hi John,
Thank you for your email. I know you have had a good experience in our music program and that it means a great deal to you. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with me. I care very much about our music and I am confident we will continue to have an extremely high quality program
Dr. Scuzzarella”

She didn’t even answer my question! What’s up with that? So I emailed her again:

Thanks you for your email but I would still like to know why, even if the only information you can give us is that you can not tell us because of privacy issues.

Thank you!

John Baylies

Class of 2010

There are already two facebook groups up:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18587941926&ref=nf

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19881851825&ref=nf

So we’ll see what happens!

UPDATE: I got an email back!

Hi John,
There are confidentiality issues involved, so no, I can not share any other information with you.

So I guess someone did complain. Therefor we should be able to complement Mr Beatty back!

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One Response to “The Fight For Mr Beatty! Part Ein”

Joe Faris Says:
May 31, 2008 at 8:52 pm | Reply
Thank you John! I also emailed Dr. Scuzzarella asking the same question. I havnt heard back yet. I will bring you the email on Monday.

-Joe

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