How caring should a Principal be?

[Anonymous]

10-feet away talking with other people in an area with lots of kids? Principal may not have even known it happened.

If you are such a helicopter mom I'm suprised you allowed your child to be in a position to sprain his/her ankle.

[Anonymous]

Not OP but pp sounds like a real jerk.

[Anonymous]

I don't know which center, or any details of the event except what you described here, but yes, this person doesn't sound very nurturing.

Sometimes administrators are very focussed on the big picture and miss the details in front of them or assume someone else has it covered.

My child attended a school with a principal that I could see doing this. We now attend a smaller neighborhood school with a principal who knows all of the children by name, sibling, parent, and favorite book. My kid is an AAP kid, but doesn't attend an AAP center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - to be honest, I was just disappointed. I had heard that this is a great Principal who attends so many school functions. Just thought, "What's the point if you don't show that you care a little?"
At DC's old school, the Principal herself administered the Epipen when a child had an allergen ingestion - despite the child not having any symptoms. She did not just stand around and chat. (Obviously a potentially much more serious situation, but still...)

I think it's hard to weigh in here if you weren't there. I'd like every principal to be warm and caring but, not really knowing what unfolded or what the principal was doing at the time, I'm going to resist the temptation to criticize an unnamed principal at an unnamed school for something like this. They have to put up with plenty of second-guessing from parents who can be quite unreasonable at times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10-feet away talking with other people in an area with lots of kids? Principal may not have even known it happened.

If you are such a helicopter mom I'm suprised you allowed your child to be in a position to sprain his/her ankle.

Was not my child.
Child sprained his/her ankle in a school "obstacle course" where he/she was told to wear socks even though it was slippery.
Had met the child/mother once before outside of school - not a friend of DC's.
Prinicipal knew it happened because someone asked P where to find an extra chair for the child to elevate his foot.

[Anonymous]

What about principals who interfere with children's education intentionally giving bad directions to show their power and hurt the children's learning. That is what I got in my child's school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about principals who interfere with children's education intentionally giving bad directions to show their power and hurt the children's learning. That is what I got in my child's school.

What does the bolder part above mean?