Jeni Booker Senter was one of the teachers fired by Newpoint Education Partners yesterday. She taught English, Language Arts and Creative Writing at Newpoint Academy and Newpoint High Pensacola.
When she and her fellow teachers were let go Tuesday morning, NEP failed to check whether it all the grades had been turned in. This, of course, begs the question: why didn’t NEP already the grades turned in since school ended last week? With all the attention on NEP for its lack of record keeping, you would have expected NEP to make sure it had all the grade and attendance records up to date.
Here is the email exchange this morning between Senter and the assistant school director:
Good morning Mrs Senter,
Attached are your grade edits sheets for 4th qt. Please add 2nd semester grade for 3rd period English 3.
Please make necessary corrections. Sign and scan/return sheets to me today, I will be at the school until 2 pm if you need to stop by. Please call me if you have questions or concerns. Thank you for your dedication and support this year.
Ms. Alisa Wilson
Newpoint Pensacola
Mrs. Senter replied:
Alisa,
I don’t know why the semester exam grades for semester 2 third period are not showing. I averaged them in for the final grades two days ago and saved them in FOCUS–which probably dropped the grades as it often does until we ensure that the grades are actually in by checking and rechecking a number of times. However, you may access those grades, if you are so authorized by Newpoint Education Partners to do so, via an administrative sign in on my APEX account.
You will have to log in as administrator to get the semester exam grades and transfer them to the grade edit sheets. I cannot access it or access FOCUS according to my employment status with Newpoint Education Partners, LLC.
I am very sorry for the position that you are in, but this situation also will not allow for me to sign anything school related beyond what I have already officially entered into APEX and FOCUS as I have fulfilled all allowable duties as of yesterday at the end of my employment with the school and the end of any other professional relationship with the school.
Any further work-related activity for this company would have to be allowed/documented by a written official statement from Newpoint Education Partners that my employment has been extended through the time required to ensure all data is correct and payment for said work as well as the rest of my annualized salary as stated on my offer of employment.
I am copying the ever elusive and unavailable for statements Carla Lovett, Mr. Stack, and Mr. Stiles on this email as well as Marcus May as they need to figure the situation out for themselves. Carla Lovett previously returned a professional inquiry to me with a very unprofessional email (which I have saved as I have saved all other important documentation) directing me to ask questions about future employment and pay to my director and site director (who were not privy to such information as they were not informed either).
No company officials ever definitively answered my emails about the company’s intentions on paying the employees through the summer, and it is my belief that they intentionally withheld the information that the company fully intended to defraud and abandon the employees–not to mention that we were fired via email. This is the most unprofessional company that I have ever worked for, and I plan to talk to every news media outlet available for my side of the story and my opinions regarding working for the company.
Regards,
Jeni Senter
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Also, Inweekly has learned that Newpoint Education held a graduation ceremony last week at Grace Lutheran Church. However, the seniors were not given diplomas. The school district is still verifying whether the students completed the necessary classes to qualify for graduation. NEP dropped the ball again.