Miriam,I'll be cracking that whip again this after...

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8010473.post-10785150879860828272008-03-28T09:29:00.000-07:002008-03-28T09:29:00.000-07:002008-03-28T09:29:00.000-07:00Miriam,I'll be cracking that whip again this after...Miriam, I'll be cracking that whip again this afternoon as well. I have a meeting with supportive teachers and union folks. Whew, I hope all this works! Jameil, That's definitely true. There's so much shuffling of people who are incompetent. But at the school level it especially makes my blood boil because it's messing with the future of kids and these people are doing real damage. It's just not cool. Not at all. NYC/CR, And if they don't keep the bad principal in the classroom, the promote them to district level jobs or else put them back in the classroom where they're working with kids. It's pretty ridiculous. Yolanda, It needs a complete overhaul, not just the band-aid fixes that seem to be everywhere. Thanks for the good luck wishes. I hope this is successful, but it does make me wonder what sort of head case we could get as a replacement! Who knows! Nick, This incompetency shuffle does happen across all sorts of areas. Executives get huge severance packages, even when they've done horribly. We'll probably all be horrified as stories of the millions Bear Stearns execs earned as bonuses starts to come out. Principals don't get that sort of thing, but it's harder to fire one than someone working at an investment house. So, they just get shuffled. Jen, So sorry you're not feeling all that hot. So glad that substitution will work because I have a box of that cornbread mix sitting in my kitchen cabinet. I've been wanting to eat it but then I think about the calorie/fat count and change my mind. I should just make it all from scratch though, huh! It is hard to find good admins these days. So many people always said I should be a principal but I always felt like to do a really good job at a low performing school would mean having no life otherwise and no time for my own kids. I know a few really great principals, particularly at charter schools and they have no lives and do the 80-90 hour work week (or more) every single week. I used to joke that I didn't want to work that hard -- even though I was working that hard at my old job. I'm just increasingly unwilling to sacrifice time with my family. Bad principals get promoted out here too, all the time. It's like a rite of passage. You have to mess up a school to get on your way to the central office! 1969, I wish the presidential candidates would talk more about education, but so much of it really does fall on the state level and city level. We're getting millions cut from our state education budgets and things are already pretty bare bones as it is...unless you're at a magnet or you get a neighborhood public school in a wealthier area, or if the parents do a ton of fundraising to supplement. AAGH! It just shouldn't be this hard! We're supposed to be the greatest nation in the world and we can't get our education system together!Los Angelistahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17794296990587989214noreply@blogger.com