dumbass school principal

[Gary_Yngve]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/11/11/no.cartwheels.reut/index.html

[Mr._Natural]

slow news day? who the fuck cares?

[catbirdseat]

You might care if you had kids...

[barkernews]

Kids are expensive.

[David_Parker]

That IS ridiculous! My son does Gymnastics and is always cartwheeling and flipping. I can understand if he was in a crowded hallway, but if he was outside at recess, WTF? It didn't really say. We should all live in glass bubbles so we don't hurt ourselves!

[Skeezix]

Well I AM a school principal, and I don't think there's enough information in the article to determine whether the principal was justified in the disciplinary action are not. If she was told by school staff to knock it off, why didn't she knock it off? Maybe she was cartwheeling through crowded hallways or the cafeteria... There just isn't enough information in the article to support armchair quarterbacking.

[klenke]

The title of this thread ought to be 'dumbass news article.' Total crap, as Principal Skeezix intimated.

[foraker]

i'd be interested to know what parent's reactions are these days when their kids are acting up at school. i remember when parent's used to get the call from the principal and usually they gave 'the eye' to their kid, basically saying 'wtf have you done now?' am i wrong in thinking that now the parents give the eye to the principal, basically saying 'wtf do you think you're doing accusing my precious little snotleigh of being bad?'

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Well I AM a school principal, and I don't think there's enough information in the article to determine whether the principal was justified in the disciplinary action are not. If she was told by school staff to knock it off, why didn't she knock it off? Maybe she was cartwheeling through crowded hallways or the cafeteria... There just isn't enough information in the article to support armchair quarterbacking.

 

Maybe it was just CYA - in our litiginous society, you always have to worry about being sued.

[EWolfe]

I get "Sue" ed at least four times a week. I love it!

[Skeezix]

i'd be interested to know what parent's reactions are these days when their kids are acting up at school. i remember when parent's used to get the call from the principal and usually they gave 'the eye' to their kid, basically saying 'wtf have you done now?' am i wrong in thinking that now the parents give the eye to the principal, basically saying 'wtf do you think you're doing accusing my precious little snotleigh of being bad?'

There's a range of responses from old-school evil eye blame junior to blame the principal. I've only been a principal since July. All the discipline work is a pain in the crash pad. I wish I had an assistant to foist it off on so that I could focus on improving instruction. I know one thing, though. The last thing you want as a principal is to see your name in a negative news article like the one above. I frequently tell kids to stop horseplay and running around in the building. Prevents crashes. Another thing is that you always want to hear the other side of the story. Kids are masters at spinning what happened at school...

[klenke]

Skeezix: assistant = vice principal. You have a lot to learn, young principalhopper. At least that's the way it seemed to be with me in school. It was always the vice principal I got sent to.

 

It's kind of like a marine ship. The CO doesn't really do any disciplining. That's the XO's job. XO would be equivalent to VPrincipal. A good supervisor delegates authority. Delegate, my man, delegate.