Brown Barge Middle School Principal in Pensacola, Fl. Inexplicably Goes Ballistic During Parent Conference

Raising the Question is She Too Unstable to Hold Such a Vitally Important Role in the Education of Pensacola Children

At 1:00 PM on January 28, 2008 my wife and I met with the Patrician Kerrigan, Principal, and Brent Brummet, Assistant Principal of Brown Barge Middle School to discuss problems our son was having there. He had gone from straight A's and loving school and being Student of the Year of his school in fifth grade to getting zeros on assignments and hating school. His self-esteem had been shot and he stated to us that he'd been made to feel as though he wasn't smart enough to be at this school. Our son placed in the 98th percentile on national standardized testing prior to entering Brown Barge Middle School and has excelled in the Program for Academically Talented Students since he first entered elementary school. In fact, the only day he didn't dread school was Wednesdays when he in the PATS classes not taught by his Brown Barge teachers. Along with the fact that his grades and comments from teachers at PATS were in direct contrast to those he received at Brown Barge Middle School, we became convinced the problem was with the school.