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The principal and administration at this school is dishonest, disorganized, academically weak, and financially unstable. The school has "misreported" information to private school websites about the number of AP courses, the number of faculty with graduate degrees, the sports facilities, the student SAT scores, the college admissions records of the school. Last year at graduation, the principal boasted about a number of college acceptances, but his list was made up of the acceptances from one girl who lied about her GPA to the UC schools, which the principal did not correct. The owners bully employees. The principal announces faculty meetings two hours before they are held, and he fails to respond to faculty, student, parent emails. Administrators (who were the principal's cronies) encourage teachers to give easy A grades, and if a teacher is a realistic grader for weaker students that teacher is bullied or fired. There are many special needs students who cannot handle regular CCSS grade-level coursework, and they flock to this school to get watered down curriculum and inflated grades. The anti-intellectual principal has no idea what current academic research says, and he bullies teachers, students, staff who have independent points of view. He censored the student newspaper when it questioned school policies. The school has numerous financial problems that have led to teachers teaching for weeks without textbooks; students studying without promised computers; teachers taking out their own trash; no technical assistant for broken school technology; bills to utilities and AP testing services going unpaid for months. The school failed to obtain WASC accreditation last year, but the principal lied about the real reasons for the accreditation denial to teachers and staff. The principal has been charged by the Alameda District Attorney with failure to report child abuse of a former teacher, and the Livermore School District found he fraudulently presented the credentials of his favorite crony teachers to get them hired. The principal doesn't respect real academic and professional accomplishments because he finds lying about professional accomplishments so much easier than working hard for real accomplishments. There is significant teacher, staff, and student turnover due to all of these problems.