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[quote=Anonymous]The principal makes a big difference. Every school has a bad teacher. Some have more than others. A good principal usually has fewer mediocre and bad teachers because they are better at retaining the good ones, not hiring someone who is bad when they have an opening, and intervening with a bad teacher. Even the good principals can't outright fire a bad teacher but they absolutely address parental complaints and intervene with a teacher.

We have a bad teacher at our school and nothing is going to make her stellar. However, our principal does take parents complaints seriously and intervenes. We see the behavior change and the teacher goes back to her old ways in a few weeks but then the cycle starts over again. Its probably frustrating for the principal to have to keep intervening and not be able to just fire the teacher but she keeps at it.

A bad principal will just deflect and ignore parent complaints or get defensive and dismissive. We've been at a school like that in the past and its awful. The most ridiculous petty and poor behavior goes on with bad teachers because the principal does nothing. The good teachers don't stick around and the parents feel trapped or go above the principal heads. The principal gets even more defensive because she has gotten in trouble for not doing her job. It can really wreck a school. [/quote]

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