The Education Wars: Lousy Principals

When the blogger quoted in the previous post mentioned lousy principals in NYC, he linked to this article wherein a teacher and a principal completely screwed up with dealing with a student who marked on a desk--after all, the teacher should have simply asked the student to remove the graffiti--yet the principal doesn't admit to doing anything wrong:

Education officials say it was a "mistake," but the principal of a school where a 12-year-old girl was arrested and cuffed for doodling on her desk won't back down, the student's mom said Friday.

Alexa Gonzalez no longer faces a suspension for scribbling with a lime green marker, but principal Marilyn Grant told her mother, Moraima Camacho, that agency policy dictated that she calls the cops.

"[She said] that it wasn't their fault that it was something they had to do," Camacho said of her meeting with Grant at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills. "She doesn't consider it doodling."

The more principals screw up, the better they do.

She'll probably be named Principal of the Year.