The school year ended without a principal at my school. A rudderless ship, leaving us all wondering and worrying about the upcoming year. How to put it in a politically correct manner…? More worried about the choice maker, rather than any actual person taking the position. Clear as mud, right?
Anyhow, no principal was found. Or rather, none that would accept the position or was sufficiently appropriate for the position. I’m sure it was for economic reasons as reported in the local paper – our only source of information. Instead we now have an interim principal.
First order of business: get every single student who failed the HSPE into the building in August (Ha!) to retake the test. Do not worry about the fact that only a few registered… there is sure to be extra booklets (ha!). So what if your contract doesn’t start for another two/three weeks! If you cared about kids, you would cancel your father’s surgery and recuperation time! Hire a nurse! (who would make more than you if you were actually getting paid). Where is your pride!?! Seriously, he/she was stunned that no one had bothered to register students to take the HSPE in August against their will – even though they won’t show up and it will then be counted against them. We have such luck in ensuring they will show up in March (you know, the regular school year), August should be no problem.
Maybe that is a bit snarky… but I’m getting the idea that this will be an year long experiment in all the school improvement rhetoric floating around the nation.
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