Do Principals With Principles Exist?

Apparently there are quite a few in New York who are upset to no end about the "reforms" involving teacher and principal evaluations.

Or else they are pissed off because now THEY have to be evaluated. There wasn't all the hue and cry when teachers were targeted.

Principals better face the fact that they will no longer have cushy jobs for life and will be disposable just like teachers.

People like Eli Broad believe principals shouldn't be educators anyway but instead have MBAs. Talk about insane.

The dynamic duo of Obama and Duncan may start an "Occupy Public Education" movement:

As of last night, 658 principals around the state had signed a letter — 488 of them from Long Island, where the insurrection began — protesting the use of students’ test scores to evaluate teachers’ and principals’ performance.

Their complaints are many: the evaluation system was put together in slapdash fashion, with no pilot program; there are test scores to evaluate only fourth-through-eighth-grade English and math teachers; and New York tests are so unreliable that they had to be rescaled radically last year, with proficiency rates in math and English dropping 25 percentage points overnight.

Mr. Kaplan, who runs one of the highest-achieving schools in the state, has been evaluating teachers since the education commissioner was a teenager. No matter. He is required by Nassau County officials to attend 10 training sessions, as is Carol Burris, the principal of South Side High School here, who was named the 2010 Educator of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State.

“It’s education by humiliation,” Mr. Kaplan said. “I’ve never seen teachers and principals so degraded.”

It's early yet. Just wait until the privatizers have their way.