This timeline documents key events that have led to the current crisis of confidence in the school's administration. It illustrates a pattern of non-transparency, poor judgment, and a failure to prioritize student safety and faculty retention.
Parents and staff report multiple serious safety concerns to the administration, including allegations of staff misconduct and student-on-student misconduct in the aftercare program.
- An unprecedented number of staff, including four of five lead teachers from the Children's House, tender their resignations for the upcoming school year.
- Resigning teachers cite a culture of disrespect and a lack of support from the administration as their primary reason for leaving.
Amid the growing staff exodus, the Head of School's contract is renewed by a narrow one-vote margin at a Board of Directors meeting.
Parents and teachers allege that the full scale of the staff and safety crises was not made transparent to the full Board or the community prior to this critical vote.
In an official communication to the school community, the administration characterizes the mass resignation of nine staff members as the departure of a "small handful" of people.
- An armed robbery occurs less than half a mile from Penn-Mont. Nearby public schools initiate security lockdowns as a precaution.
- Parents learn that Penn-Mont failed to implement a timely lockdown, with a front office staff member, not the Head of School, managing the uncoordinated response.
- A large group of concerned parents attends the Board of Directors meeting to formally report the pattern of events, including the unaddressed safety allegations, the staff exodus, and the lockdown failure.
- Parents formally raise the conflict of interest created by the close personal friendship between the Head of School and the Board President.
Security cameras, which had been funded by a previous Gala but never installed, are suddenly put up just days before the Board Meeting where parents were scheduled to speak.