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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Once upon a time, Bunker Hill was the cream of the crop in NE DC.  Well, one bad principal had many bad ideas and bad things happened.  The school lost 150 students in one year.  The charter school boom took almost all of them.  From January 2000 - June 2007 there were 6 principals.  Bunker Hill never recovered from the train wreck of principals.  From 2007 - 2014 there have been 4 that I know of.  All of my teacher friends were gone and found greener pastures elsewhere.  Bunker Hill = 10+ principals in 14 years.

The reason for the churn is multi-faceted.  There are many variables.  Nevertheless, anyone who takes a principalship in DCPS is on a suicide mission.

Teacher and Administrative Churn — It’s Not A Bug, It’s A Feature of Education Deform in DC and Elsewhere (article)

https://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/teacher-and-administrative-churn-its-not-a-bug-its-a-feature-of-education-deform-in-dc-and-elsewhere/[/quote]

I've also heard a lot of departing teachers say they leave b/c DCPS is career suicide. And they leave VERY early in the year, not wanting to stick around so incompetent and mean spirited principals can run their professional names into the ground.

So yes DCPS needs to work hard to bring in QUALITY leaders who can lead these talented, highly sought after teachers they bring in. And once they get those people, they need to retain them.[/quote]

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