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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about school principals?  Are they paid on 12-month salaries with all this vacation or contracts like teachers?[/quote]

Yes, 12 month employees that are school-based include principals, Assistant principals and Instructional Technology Coordinators (ITC). There’s no reason why an ITC needs to be 12 month, seems excessive. Assistant principals could probably be 11 month easily, like neighboring Alexandria.[/quote]

That seems strange to me.  What are principals doing at work during the time when teachers are off (like summer)?[/quote]

A lot of principals take their accrued leave for trips in the summer, but their work is mostly around planning and preparing and I guess hiring? Assistant principals are the building administrators for few schools that host summer school, so principals have it pretty easy. [/quote]

Dang, I picked the wrong job.[/quote]

Really, you think being the principal of a school is an easy job that you could coast through?  Wrangling with parents through their kids IEP meetings?  In person meetings with dissatisfied parents, or teachers?  Making everyday decisions about what's allowed and what's not?  Dealing with PR when a kid or teacher at your school does something awful?

I've been in some tense meetings with principals over the years and I can see that they are on the hook for protecting the school district and perhaps not individual children.  I don't want that job, and I'm not kidding myself that it's easy, either.  You are making your own daily decisions, but also towing the line for the school district's decisions which you may or may not personally believe in.  Good luck to anyone who can stomach doing that for 20 years.[/quote]

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