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Thursday, December 1, 2005
The Case of the Spineless Principal
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I love it when the Get Schooled readers do my work for me.
Regular contributor Robert shared this experience:
“I just had a meeting with our new principal. The student behavior has degraded so very much this year, I thought that I would try to express my frustrations to see if anything could be done.
First, when I shared that the student behavior has gotten worse, he was immediately on the defensive. He said that he didn’t like it when teachers said that to him (evidently many teachers have told him that) and he wanted specific examples. So, I proceeded to give specific examples of this. I named specific students and specific days and specific incidences.
Then, he proceeded to say that it wasn’t fair for me to pick out certain incidences and infer those on the entire school!
THIS is the kind of leadership that our schools are getting. Spineless idiots that do nothing except brown nose their bosses. No one wants to admit a problem much less take any corrective measures. If there is a problem that becomes too obvious to ignore, it is always the teachers fault.
And we wonder why there is a teacher shortage in Georgia?????”
So what do y’all think?
Cross-Blogination: Comments are now closed, but if you haven’t already, take a look at Rick Badie’s column about the “acting white” stigma black students sometimes face.
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