Fairmount Park Elementary

She used her "Let me listen to my lipstick", pink pink with attention, and entered her Toyota 4Runner for a long drive to Fairmount Park Elementary. It's time to speak frankly with the teachers who struggled with one of the toughest schools in Pinellas.

Only two years ago, according to the score of the test, the squat school between the two churches near Fifth Avenue S was elected the second worst elementary school in Florida. It is poor and isolated. If the number of children is too large, the teachers are too busy. In the past 6 years, the two leaders tried to reverse the situation but failed.

Kristy Moody, the former Coast Guard officer, often gets up at 4 am and is the newest principal to improve Fairmount Park. On the surface, she has little in common with students. She is white and lives in the northern part of the county as well as many of the top leaders of the school system. It is nearly an hour from the school's black neighborhood.

Her bookshelf is full of books like the world's largest men, and she is not shy about talking about "white privileges". She told the teacher resisting this idea: "If your skin color affects the results, you will not be uncertain about the job interview."

In her first week at Fairmount Park, one of her biggest challenges in her career, Moody's has always maintained a ruthless and positive attitude. She talked with spells

In the classroom, the boy took a pencil, jumped onto the chair and peeled off the poster from the wall. He entered a tall cabinet, kicked out the shelves and saw avalanche documents and objects rushing from his feet to the floor. In another classroom, the girl threw a mathematical book to the teacher. In another battle, the fight spread. A girl hiding like a boxer came to spit a boy and then lifted a chair between them to block his fists

The former chief of Fairmount Park was criticized for ignoring everyone except the most serious help, but Moody responded to each occurrence with a calm, firm attitude.

At 3 pm, when the school's day was nearing the end, she stopped by the open courtyard and looked at the concrete scene with the color of her new school. The staff stopped speaking about the punishment who did not work, for the children who did not listen.

She did not have time to talk with teachers who did not respond to her expectations. Now, some people are near her, there is not much that she says.

Christie Moody, a new principal, one of the poorest schools in Florida, is faced with difficult challenges. Several years have passed since Fairmount Park Elementary School in St. Petersburg received higher than the National D Class. Almost all students are born in poor families and middle class families. Teachers frequently visit throughout the year. The behavior of the classroom got worse.

This system boasts an area of ​​8,900 acres, accounting for 10% of the land area of ​​the city, one of the world's largest urban parks. Fairmount Park was founded by the city's ordinance in 1855 at the peak of the urban industrial era, and after the regional integration bill of 1854, the urban area became tenfold. It is the cultural center of Philadelphia 's Centennial Exposition / World Expo in 1876 and is promoted by the city' s industry and government elite to celebrate the entry of cities into world - class status. Today, more than 90% of the park system area is included in seven watersheds, its distribution, size and shape are reflected, and to some extent historical society and

Benjamin Franklin Parkway cut diagonally diagonally off the pen and square diagonally and provide a breathtaking view to the fair surrounding the Logan Square. Fairmount Park. Fairmount is the largest urban park in the country, the center of the 100th anniversary exposition in 1876, one of the most common prospects of photographs of the cityscape of Philadelphia, the city's shadows and elegant Increase reputation for sculpture. The park is part of the surroundings of wealthy people and includes many ancient mansions maintained by the city as a museum. Due to the bustle in Wissahickon Valley, its rugged beauty inspired poets and painters of generations.