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Francee Sugar has good intentions. However I don't believe she is qualified for her position. She is good with follow through however I don't know if she has the right intentions or qualifications. I sometimes question her capabilities but Dalton is such a good school as a whole I don't know what can be done.
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She is truly an idiot and an airhead. I hope Dalton doesn't listen to her opinions in the admissions decisions they make.
[ Reply | Options ]Wow, Francee has been great with my child and very helpful to our family. An idiot and an airhead? Did you not like what she had to say about your dc?
[ Reply | Options ]Here is one of the benefits of an anonymous board. She has been, in fact, always extremely caring, sweet, positive and highly complimentary about my DC. However, I know from real life experience that a.) she is not knowledegable in her field beyond the most rudimentary aspects, b.) she is lazy and does as little as possible, c.) she is a two-faced hypocrite (watch watch she does, not what she says), d.) she fails to do some the most basic and most important responsibilities of her job or, at best, she does them poorly and incompletely. Does that answer your question. My comments have nothing to do with whether she "likes" my DC. I could care less about that. But I care a lot about all the other ways she falls short. Overall I like D but the fact that she keeps her job is a mystery to me, unless it's a tenure or other legal reason that she's still there.
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I was trying to give you hard facts and defensible reasons for making the comment I made. Analogy: If someone did something immoral or illegal that I knew about for a fact, and I said they were a bad person, that wouldn't be "nasty" - it would be stating a fact and backing it up with defensible reasons and data to support the description. That's what I just did re FS.
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yes. not just slept with him, but had an affair and is now either married or living with him. he is obviously no longer head of school.
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I believe he was married and she was married and they had an affair while both were working at the school. Matters because they are/were role models for the students. Matters because it means the head of school was stupid or arrogant or both ... and because FS could give a shit about teaching kids in the school about morals and ethics.
[ Reply | Options ]np: huh? it doesn't sound like they just had some torrid affair, it sounds like they fell in love and are making a life together.
[ Reply | Options ]Not sure what your def of torrid affair would be. These were two senior administrators at the school, both married and having an affair with each other while they both continued to work at the school.
[ Reply | Options ]He later went to head the school connected with Columbia Univ. and resigned just a year or two into the job for some type of ethical infractions. Don't know the specifics. Does anyone?
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We found her extremely unhelpful and not supportive at all. We decided to leave for financial reasons, and she gave us no help at all finding the right fit for our dd to continue hs. After 9 years at that school, we expected a little more help and kindness. Perfectly nice person, smart, interesting, but ineffectual at her job.
[ Reply | Options ]What did you expect and what is she supposed to do? Are you mad bec your dd did not get into the school of your choice?
[ Reply | Options ]My DC did get into FC. All I expect is that she be competent and do her job. She is not (competent) and she doesn't (do her job). That's my gripe. Too much to ask? Ya think?
[ Reply | Options ]You keep saying she should be competent at her job. I would just like to know what her job is. I thought her title is learning support coordinator or something. There are reasonable parents and then there are unreasonable parents and from your posts, I can't tell which one you are. More info needed and being vague is not helping.
[ Reply | Options ]She is the head of learning support services. You can look up the job description if you're interested. I am reasonable and don't feel like writing up her job description. It's the same as at most other schools. My assessment of her abilities is just that - my assessment based on what she should do vs what she does. Enormous gap. Believe it or not. If you have DC at D, my only advice would be that you should not assume she is doing her job well and that you need to get actively involved in other ways for the best interests of your DC. Do not rely on the school.
[ Reply | Options ]I do think there are few admin people I don't know what their job even is. Not sure why they're needed. I guess FS is one of those, then. The parents I've known seemed very happy with kids who need remedial support. I thought most schools, including D, are great at supporting these kids and the ones who need radical acceleration are having difficulty.
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Don't feed the troll! This troll started the thread and is answering her own posts as if she has multiple personality. Yuck!
[ Reply | Options ]oh my goodness. This sounds crazy but I work at the school and very closely with her. i've seen this website open. I truly didn't think anything of it but I absolutely assume she was the one responding in positivie to the things that have been posted about her. You can't deny your past. This woman is truly sick and I don't trust her at all. Beware.
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She's a pathetic loser who shouldn't have that job. Dalton loses a lot of points in my book by their keeping her in that job for so long. The losers are the kids and the families.
[ Reply | Options ]OMG! Don't listen to these Bi**ches! It could well be just one troll anyway. FS is really nice, kind, caring person who does her best to help. She has good intention and cares about the students she needs to take care of. Lately, there's this one Bi**ch on UB who keeps on complaining about Dalton in every possible aspects. Her dc was rejected, who knows? Dumb legacy, who cares? These entitled Bi*ches are the ones that we work so hard to get rid of at school starting from our beloved Babby.
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She is extremely manipulative and unnecessary. She only maintains her position at that school because she started an affair with the director. She is in no position to be working with kids when she is so mentally unstable herself. She doesn't even know how to deal with her own children. Her daughter is a cocaine addict.
[ Reply | Options ]I cannot agree more with the negative feedback about Francee Sugar. She is completely useless. There is no reason for her to interfere so much between the school children, teachers, and parents. I've always wondered what could she possibly be the director of? The fact that she started an affair with the principal which then caused him to lose his job makes me sick to my stomach. I don't want her anywhere near my children and have done everything possible to avoid it. Dalton is an amazing school but she is a blemish.
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