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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People talk all the time about the need for better teachers. As a teacher, let's talk about the need for better administrators. I would work in any school in the city with any population of kids, for the right principal. As it is, I'm seriously considering leaving the District (after several years of being rated Highly Effective) because I'm sick and tired of working for terrible administrators, and I'm afraid if I switch schools I'd be jumping from the frying pan into the fire. There are great principals out there, but far fewer of them than their should be.[/quote]
+1. Not a teacher and I totally agree.  I've seen administrators up close for years through officer work on PTA and on LSAT. I've also been part of two principal panels and on hiring panels for vice principals. It is clear that Kaya doesn't give a rats ass about what the panel of parents and teachers wants. She plugs people where she wants them period. They'll send you candidates who clearly weren't selected with the school in mind. She has some AP or principal in the system that she needs to place or some fellow from the MJP program that she needs to place and she'll send them to your school without ensuring that it would be a good fit. And there is so much recycling of the same ineffective leaders that it is truly frightening. [/quote]

+2 to the pp

Leaders make or break a school. Let's face it, the kids aren't going anywhere. So it's important to find leaders who won't run teachers away. The kids are left to deal with 6-7 different teacher changes in one school year. The same thing happens the following year. And the kids who need stability and to form relationships with positive adults the most lose out.

Part of the problem is that the kids are being failed so badly in DC that you can't really have integrity and lead a DC school at the same time.[b] You have to throw teachers under the bus and blame them for poor academic achievement in order to keep your job. Rhee created a nasty system and Kaya continues it.[/b][/quote][/quote]

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