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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, I keep repeating this point in my head: no one can effectively run a school in just one year. One of the biggest jobs of a principal is to KNOW people. Know the kids. Know the teachers. Know the administration. If they're disconnected, if there's no chance of tenure, the entire thing falls apart. I seriously, seriously would like to know why this isn't a painfully obvious point that is taken into account. School reform isn't school reform--it's school churn. New charter schools, new tests, new curriculum, new staff. There's so much more money to be made that way than by actually teaching. It is not like elementary education is rocket science--it really is not. A great deal of the job is just being there, being there FOR the kids, the school and the community. [/quote]

Are there principals being let go after just a year?
In my DCPS, a principal was let go after seven years in which she utterly failed in her job. We desperately needed someone new. And the person who came in has really begun to turn things around. There is a LOT more work to do, no doubt, but I had zero confidence that the last principal would be able to do it even if she had been there 10 years. [/quote]

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