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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will say MOST principals are good about not passing a lemon.  I've had other admin call me and ask for references for a teacher who is trying to get out of my building and I'm always upfront with any concerns.  Some principals (very few) do make the mistake of hiring without calling the current principal and then get stuck with a teacher who will need to be on an improvement plan upon hiring.  [/quote]

Are you kidding? Most good principals will do whatever it takes to get terrible teachers out of their school.  [/quote]

Are you a principal?  If not, then you don't know what you're talking about.  I cannot think of a single principal that I know who would pass a lemon.  Trust me, I wish I could do it but I cannot have my name attached to something like that.  The real issue is that the teacher union makes administration jump through too many hoops to get the lemons out.  Teachers have to be on growth plans with regularly documented observations for months at a time before placing a teacher on PAR.  Then you have to wait it out while the teacher gets visited from an outside observer (consulting teacher) and hope he/she sees the same issues that you do in the classroom.  Then you get to gather 20 binders full of artifacts and present them to the PAR panel at the end of the year and hope that the teacher is dismissed.  It's a huge pain in the butt but I do it when needed because I cannot let my students receive inadequate instruction year after year from an under performing teacher. Fortunately, most teachers who struggle are very responsive to feedback and do well with the help of our staff development teacher.[/quote]

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