Ormondale School Principal Kevin Keegan is leaving district

Sad. Obviously something wrong with the way we are conducting business here, if we cannot keep an excellent principal like Mr. Keegan. Do other communities cycle through principals the way we do?

He lived in Santa Clara. That is a lot to say on why.....

Sad - perhaps the reason people leave is the active involvement of our parent community, which can across to real-world people as empowered, self-absorbed, condescending as evidenced by people willing to comment on things they know very little about and yet claim that "obviously something is wrong". Think about it.

With all due respect to the comment from "Sad," there may not be anything intrinsically "wrong" with Ormondale (Sad) that caused Mr. Keegan to leave. And with respect to the comment from "Realist," I don't get the sense that this particular case was caused by over-involved parents. My gut says we can take this at face value: Kevin has been a great principal, he loved his job at Ormondale and gave a great deal of himself to it, most days he was smiling and genuinely cheerful. But it's a difficult drive from Santa Clara to PV and back - and getting worse every day b/c of the economic bubble we're in. He has young children and likes being actively involved in their lives, so being closer to them and their school would hold a high appeal. And he had an interesting and challenging opportunity closer to home that allows him to stretch his professional skills. End of story. If any one of us was in his position, we might well have made the same decision.