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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s a newsflash for you:

1. Every single principal in DCPS at one point or another breaks one or more of many many laws, whether it be intentional or not. The DCMR is chalked full of regulations and laws. Central office cherry picks when to enforce the breaking of said laws, and some principals over the years have been naive to the actual level of protection they have from said cult of personality when favor shifts against them.

2. Whichever reason that will be promoted for the SWW principal being fired , be VERY CLEAR that the REAL reason he got cancelled was his vocal pushback against the reopening plans of the Mayor and Chancellor. Be clear.[/quote]

Seconding this poster, DCPS has a history of holding on to reasons for firing an employee, so that they can dismiss them whenever they become an inconvenience. At least that's the experience of the Washington Teachers' Union.[/quote]

[b]That's almost certainly not accurate.[/b]  If you hold on to reasons to fire someone and then try to use that reason when convenient, you are going to open yourself up to a world of trouble.  You've handed the employee a great argument that whatever s/he did clearly wasn't that since you let them work for months/years despite knowing about the "misconduct."  And, if it really was that bad and you let them stay, you will have a host of problems if they wind up doing something else that is bad.

Sometimes it pays to layoff the tinfoil headgear.[/quote]

Tinfoil headgear? Have you read ANY of the publicly contested principal firings over the last twenty years?

Mark the PP posters words, the waitlist reason was NOT the reason they fired the SWW principal; the waitlist debacle was merely the worst they could find on the guy.

Many MANY DCPS principals have been caught doing far worse (allowing Maryland residents to attend , physically restraining students, stealing money, fixing test scores, etc) and got reprimanded or reassigned, but not fired.

Can you really justify a principal being immediately fired over an alleged waitlist jump instead of reprimanded? It's ok... I'll wait.

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Enrollment shenanigans was enough to force Chancellor Wilson to resign.  Why wouldn't that be enough to cause a principal to lose his job?  Especially as these issues have become more prominent and it has gotten harder and harder to get into many schools through the lottery, it makes perfect sense to me that they would crack down hard on someone abusing the system.[/quote]

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