I Have Written That It Takes an Act of God

to remove a principal, but sometimes people take matters into their own hands, as what happened to a highly regarded principal in the D.C. schools.

Washington Post article about this principal. He was one of Michelle Rhee's hires:

Until Brian Betts mysteriously failed to appear at work Thursday morning, this is what his many admirers knew about him: He was the energetic new principal of a long-troubled urban school and, within a D.C. school system desperate for heroes, a superstar.

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Betts, 42, worked on the front lines of Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's campaign to reform the D.C. schools. In only his second year on the job, he was emerging as one of the school system's most innovative principals. Lured away in 2008 from the better-performing school system in the suburbs of Montgomery, Betts was given a new staff at a reconfigured school and unusual freedom to hire and fire, train and teach.

Betts hired a group of inexperienced teachers at Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson. He eliminated homeroom and recess, deeming them a waste of time, a bold pronouncement from a former physical education teacher. Students liked him so much that Rhee approved an unprecedented request for 100 of them to remain at his middle school for ninth grade.

It makes one wonder if somebody decided to retaliate against HIM. In any case, 48 Hours or Dateline will have this in the near future.


Video report from the WP: