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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is important to look at how many teachers normally leave a a school each year and how many total teachers/staff there are.  In some of the smaller ESs, there are only maybe 40 total staff members.  If there is not normally much turnover and 6 leave - that's a lot for that school.  Other schools have over 100 staff members and if 6 leave, that's nothing.

Also, any teacher knows that there are a host of excuses you can give for why you're leaving when you don't like the admin or the school - [b]"I want to be closer to home" or "I want to try a different experience" are often codes for "I don't like my principal" or "The culture at this school is killing me".[/b][/quote]

Teacher who posted earlier--yes, and those things are also code for "I want to be closer to home" or "I want to try a different experience."  You just don't know.  My DH is also a teacher and hated one principal, as did many staff, who left after his first year.  Yet when he left, some teachers followed him to his new school.  So which is it, was he a terrible leader and made the school bad, or was he so amazing that staff followed him to his next guaranteed-successful project?  I also had a negative principal experience this past year, and we lost a few staff members, but one had moved during the year and didn't want an hour-long commute, two moved out of the area completely, one decided to take long-term parental leave, and two had their positions cut from full time and found full time positions elsewhere.  So that's six teachers leaving that had nothing to do with the (terrible) principal.

You just do not know.  If there was an exodus at my kids' school, I would not make any assumptions until I'd gone through the teacher grapevine and gotten at least part of the story.[/quote]

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