Morgan Hill – Principal Garry Dudley has been granted a leave of
absence by the Morgan Hill Unified School District, according to
four Jackson Elementary parents and teachers, who asked not be
identified.
Morgan Hill – Principal Garry Dudley has been granted a leave of absence by the Morgan Hill Unified School District, according to four Jackson Elementary parents and teachers, who asked not be identified.
The school district would not confirm nor deny the claim, but did say an announcement would be made at tonight’s school board meeting at 6 p.m. at 15600 Concord Circle.
Superintendent Wes Smith and Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services Socorro Shiels were seen on campus after school at Jackson Tuesday, according to a Jackson parent who said they were meeting with Dudley in the office.
Dudley’s secretary Sandy Moody said Tuesday afternoon that “it would be good for you to go to the school board meeting,” when asked if Dudley was in fact given a leave of absence. His car was parked in the school parking lot and Moody said the principal was on campus that day.
The announcement of Dudley’s current absence comes on the heels of a Sept. 3 story in the Times that reported 18 complaints were filed against Dudley in two years ranging from alleged sexual harassment to alleged verbal abuse of students. Eleven of those claims were found to have merit and to be true either in part or totally.
In addition, the school is struggling to pull itself out of Program Improvement after it entered year five officially Monday following a 24-point drop in the annual Academic Performance Index that measures every school’s progress based on standardized test scores.
