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Kaysette
Jan 5, 2009

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Kaysette
Jan 5, 2009

~*Boston makes me*~
~*feel good*~

:wrongcity:

JeffersonClay posted:

I interact with around 30 schools and can confirm a good principal, and good administration in general, make a big difference. I've also worked in a school with a bad principal and inept administration in general and can confirm it impacts the classroom significantly. It's like building your own island fortress of competence in a sea of disorder. That's probably more true with SpEd, though.

I've got a smaller sample size but I agree. Most of the quitting teaching horror stories I've heard are something like "I'm in a really lovely situation and my principal told me to suck it up / doesn't care." For as much poo poo as higher ed gets about administrative bloat and uselessness, good admins are so essential at the K-12 level. You're doing God's work, Ox.

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