Abusive Administration in Elementary School?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonderful teachers keep leaving my daughters school. All the crappy ones stay. I spoke with my daughters teacher on a Friday and she didn't come out and directly say it but implied that teachers were treated badly by administrators in the building. This teacher has been there one year and is leaving like many others that just stay a year who are really great. How common is this? So upsetting.

Very very common. There is almost no accountability for administrators. Principal is a job for life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonderful teachers keep leaving my daughters school. All the crappy ones stay. I spoke with my daughters teacher on a Friday and she didn't come out and directly say it but implied that teachers were treated badly by administrators in the building. This teacher has been there one year and is leaving like many others that just stay a year who are really great. How common is this? So upsetting.

Very very common. There is almost no accountability for administrators. Principal is a job for life.

That's funny because I can count at least 10 FCPS principals at all levels that have been moved out of the principal position (and not promoted) in the last 4 years. And I'm not even thinking that hard about it.

--FCPS principal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonderful teachers keep leaving my daughters school. All the crappy ones stay. I spoke with my daughters teacher on a Friday and she didn't come out and directly say it but implied that teachers were treated badly by administrators in the building. This teacher has been there one year and is leaving like many others that just stay a year who are really great. How common is this? So upsetting.

It's very common in Fairfax county. There is no accountability for administrators that I can tell. They have the job for life, no matter how bad they suck at it.

I have worked in an Elementary School in FCPS where an administrator was removed. I will say, teachers move for a variety of reasons, but a great administrator makes ALL the difference.

If the teachers say the administrator is great...watch out...she/he may be covering their incompetence instead of firing them.

I am the teacher whose post you were replying to. I have no idea what you're trying to say here. In my experience, when teachers are unhappy, parents often are as well. Also, last time I checked, teachers do not fire their bosses.