Seattle legislators are trying to amend state law to make it easier for schools to remove an underpeforming principal. Should the amendment pass:
Seattle school officials eventually could demote experienced principals from schools for a "valid reason." As it stands now, principals who've worked in any school district for more than three years can't be moved down without "probable cause," a higher bar.As things stand:
"The way that Seattle has interpreted probable cause all but grants lifetime tenure,"The added emphasis above is on eventually, because the principals for whom there is already "valid reason" short of "probable cause" to earn placement in a rubber room would be grandfathered in. The law would only apply to principals appointed after the law goes into effect.
Nevertheless, the Seattle School District and the state principal's association complain that this would somehow make it harder for Seattle to attract "high-quality principals" (who, um, aren't the ones this is aimed at).
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 23, 2010 10:10 PM | Email ThisI don't know when we reach the point were the failure is so great and the cost so high that the education system implodes, but this type of policy certainly is moving the bar in that direction.
Posted by: ducttape2 on February 23, 2010 10:12 PMIt's not about education, it's about employment.
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on February 24, 2010 08:03 AM"CENTRAL FALLS, Rhode Island -- A U.S. school district has voted to fire all the teachers at an underperforming school.
The Providence Journal reports that the Central Falls School Committee voted Tuesday evening to fire every educator at Central Falls High School, including teachers, guidance counselors and the principal."
There is another more sinister purpose for public schools, and that is to indoctrinate and purposely 'dumb-down' America's children so, as adults, they won't recognize and resist covert takeover of our government by Marxist thugs. It is obvious this Bolshevik plot, hatched in collegiate schools of education, has succeeded, given the traitous scum we have in the White House and in the majority of both houses of congress.
The legislature is playing smoke and mirrors - making it seem like they are doing the schools good, when in fact they are just hiding what they really should be doing to make the schools better.
Posted by: Doug on February 24, 2010 07:09 PM