Local News in Brief : Group Plans to Fight Transfer of Principal
A group of students, parents and teachers from Robert Frost Junior High School in Granada Hills told Los Angeles school board members Monday that they will fight to keep the school’s principal from being transferred.
“I am angry and upset,” Sandra Zien, co-president of the school’s PTSA, said about the pending transfer of Gerald E. Horowitz, principal at Frost for the last 10 years.
Zien said Horowitz “created magic out of madness” in his handling of integration programs, which have caused the school’s minority enrollment to grow from 18% in 1978 to its present 59%.
Horowitz said he has received no notice of a transfer and is going ahead with routine plans to open Frost for the next school year in September.
However, Supt. Leonard Britton said the district is considering transferring “an experienced principal where his leadership is needed.” He did not mention Horowitz by name.
About 30 students, parents and teachers from Frost attended the school board meeting to cheer the seven people who spoke.
“To remove our principal against the will of our community is a selfish move,” said Shirley Schwartz, the other co-president of the PTSA.
School board President Roberta Weintraub thanked the speakers for their comments but said Britton speaks for the board.
“We’re going to fight this,” Schwartz said.
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