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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, that kind of turnover means the principal sucks. If people retire, that is one thing, or move away, but if too many teachers transfer to another, that’s a huge red flag.

When people are on a performance improvement plan, you can tell, because they have mentors from outside the building coming in all the time.

I’ve seen and been at schools where principals forced people out and it was not fair at all. It’s like the zero in on people for some reason and they have no chance of succeeding. In almost every case, over my many years, it was a principal problem, while teachers who should have been counseled out were left alone. It’s astonishing how much power principals have.[/quote]

All true.  Teachers who are pushed out and teachers who become favorites are only different in terms of who the principal is.  The same teacher who used to be a favorite can end up being picked on and pushed out by a new principal.  However, I did notice during my years of teaching that when there was no great reason for a teacher to be picked on, they were rarely put on an improvement plan.  Those plans usually lead to the teacher improving and staying in place.  Plus, they bring an experienced mentor into the building, and this person will know if there is nothing wrong with the teacher.  Instead, if the teacher is simply being picked on because the admin doesn't like them for some personal reason, admin will just harass them until they leave.  No plan will be offered.  They will simply make their lives miserable unofficially.  The ones who got put on improvement plans in my school were the ones who really needed them - they were just doing a terrible job, although they seemed to be trying and were otherwise liked by admin.  [/quote]

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