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[quote=Anonymous]I'm trying to figure out these kinds of posts:

"There are 13 faculty members leaving and you can thank the administration for it. I’ve heard the community is not great right now and the teachers are tired of working for someone who is under qualified and abrasive."

"The principal has caused a lot of people to leave. The school is not transparent at all, as an additional three teachers left during the year all stemming from issues with lack of accountability and transparency."

What specifically has the principal done that would drive teachers to quit?  Classroom teacher experience is driven by the curriculum and by their own initiative.  Principals barely ever enter a classroom.  The people who end up resenting principals are usually:
a) staff members
b) faculty members who have been asked to leave
c) parents who want better communication and/or more accountability and transparency

But good happy teachers don't usually quit because they don't like the head administrator.  They leave for all kinds of reasons, including involuntarily, but it would take a truly terrible principal to drive teachers to quit primarily due to "principal performance."

Some people are suspicious of these posts, and I can see why.  A disgruntled staffer or someone who wants the principal's job might complain about a principal being "unqualified," but the principal's qualifications wouldn't be a major concern for a teacher in good standing.

And a parent might want more accountability and transparency, but the notion that three teachers would leave because of a lack of principal accountability and transparency seems weird.

Anyway, I'm probably being paranoid.  Let's assume that some teachers are leaving because of the principal.  Can you say more about the dynamic?  What is the principal doing wrong that is driving away teachers?[/quote]

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