Up North Progressive

Former Grand Traverse Academy principal Brooke Capser is now also the former principal of Lowell Elementary School in Missoula, Montana. Brooke returned to Traverse City recently after working one school year for the Missoula County Public Schools. The announcement of Capser’s departure was noted in the local news.

Interviews for the next principal at Lowell Elementary School will begin the week of June 11th  with MCPS leaders saying the chosen candidate will start during the summer.

Current Lowell Elementary School principal Brooke Capser resigned her position earlier this week in order to support her family.

And in this case, support her family refers to the hubby never relocated and their house in Michigan never sold. These things happen.

If you don’t remember Brooke, she’s the former GTA assistant principal who at the end of the 2016-2017 school year quietly accepted the principal position at Lowell Elementary in Montana. MCPS announced their new hire while GTA was still trying to keep Brooke Capser’s impending departure under wraps from students and parents. The for-profit charter school even had the Traverse City Record-Eagle try to run damage control for them when Up North Progressive broke the story in June of 2017.

Brooke may be hoping to return to GTA this fall, but with the for-profit charter school’s finances still dangling like a fate’s thread over a razor-sharp blade and several teachers vacating their positions with the end of the 2017-2018 school year, it may be good advice to look somewhere where the school is on more stable footing.

And the Capsers won’t have to worry about selling their house in a buyer’s market again.

Good Luck!