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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The gender of the principal makes no difference. But too many principals really don't understand the effects of their decisions. I have to be ready for a combined Open House/Back to School Night on Wednesday, August 22, after having spent an estimated total of nine hours in the days before that in staff training. If I do go into school on the first day, Friday the 17th,  which of course I will do, even though it is a work from home day (which makes no sense), I will have that day with no IA help and then 6 hours altogether to be ready for that event, while needing to collaborate with my team for the presentation and set up my room, and do a million other things. Why can't we have the traditional back to school thing later in the month and have the families visit the school for Open House on Friday???? That's just the tip of the iceberg of the decisions that don't make sense for the classroom teachers. Too many principals are just too far removed from the actual classroom job,  or were PE teachers and never ran an elementary classroom. I have  to read all the IEPs and be ready for every parent of a special ed kid by Wed....but I love the kids and my colleagues. [/quote]

DO NOT get me started on principals who only ever taught PE. Holy crap I don't even know how that is allowed. Same with APs and Principals who taught for 5 years only. You barely got your footing under you in a classroom before moving into leadership. Hard to imagine you have the standing you need to tell a 20 year vet how to do their job. [/quote]

Haha, my principal who I’ve written about on this thread was a PE teacher. It’s ridiculous that she’s evaluating anyone other than PE teachers, of which there is a total of one in the entire school. It should not be allowed. There’s a teacher on my team who is objectively terrible at their job (their data sucks year after year) and actually creates more work for their teammates because their teammates have to fix their mistakes, but the principal doesn’t know what to look for and that would be exposed if she gives the teacher a bad eval so she keeps it easy for herself and the teacher gets to keep doing what they’re doing, which is pretty much nothing since their teammates have to carry them.  Such a great system. [/quote]

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