When NAVAIR moved down there it raised the caliber of the students and the expectations, but the staff was as complacent and marginal as ever.
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Says one of the Come Downers who looked down her nose at Calvert County residents .
The Navy folks come in here we welcome them, but most look down on residents of Southern Maryland as ignorant rednecks.
Many begin to love Southern Maryland and stay here to retire, many go back to wherever they came from thinking they are hurting the “caliber” by leaving. They aren’t.
Sorry if the truth hurts.
The Calvert schools were bad news and St Marys’ worse. Blatant discrimination and violation of State and Federal laws and regulations. Call them on it and all hell breaks loose in terms of revenge upon your student. I say that as a parent who had that happen to them and won multiple complaints, one of which contributed to a principal leaving the district for an Eastern Shore teaching job “to have more time with his family”.
I did my time there like many others and moved on. Nothing particularly commendable or attractive there. It has changed mightily from when we first moved there, and that is a good thing. However the anti gun climate is such that I would rather accept orders to Fallon than Pax again.
I believe the term you were dancing around is “SMIB”