He was very good as principal intern last year, lots of communication. |
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All of this year's new principals:
https://mocoshow.com/2025/08/25/approximately-840-new-teachers-and-24-new-principals-or-new-to-their-school-to-start-the-school-year/ |
| What’s going to happen with the BCC principal? How long will there be the interim fixer guy? |
They haven't posted the position yet, so might be a while. |
They will keep Yates there the entire year for consistency and so they can hire at peak hiring season and get good candidates. |
Or they could hire someone to start around winter break. |
I think that would be best. The sooner a new person can be integrated and acclimated with the school, the better. |
Yates is good. You should give him a chance. |
It's not about "giving him a chance." I'm sure he's good, but he's retired and if you haven't noticed, he is the interim principal, not the principal. Parents want to know what will happen when he leaves. |
Has nothing to do with Yates and everything to do with stabilizing the school community with its long-term leader as quickly as possible. |
+1 He's retired. Do people think he's going to stay at BCC for years? The community wants to know the plans for getting a permanent principal. |
I would rather have a good interim principal than a permanent principal who is not a good fit. Yates will be there while MCPS (hopefully) identifies a quality principal, which we need BCC to have. |
MCPS filled its last three HS principal vacancies with CO rejects who needed a soft place to land after Taylor's CO reorg. Do not get your hopes up about them identifying a "quality principal." It will be someone from Central Office or an AP who has been groomed to do Central Office's bidding. |
It is impossible to be an effective principal under the current MCPS administration. They are Principal killers. |
I believe you. |