“I’VE NEVER SEEN SUCH CHAOS IN THE DISTRICT; IT’S NEVER BEEN SO BAD”
from the AALA UPDATE FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 21 | http://bit.ly/1fIDJjz
“…I have never seen such chaos in the District…Dr. Deasy and his senior management team need to rethink their roles and be more supportive of principals. Principals are being worked to death with no consideration from top management. I don’t think the Board, and the public in general, realizes what we face every day. It’s never been so bad.” - The AALA Editorialist, below
smf: Excuse my grammar, but it ain’t just the principals!
It’s classroom teachers and office staff and nurses and librarians and custodians and groundskeepers. It’s M+O workers and functionaries in cubicles and senior staff in corner offices. And it’s parents and students - because we see the impact of low morale caused by cuts and more cuts caused by hard times – compounded daily by fear and disrespect caused by poor priority-setting and bad policy promulgated by myopic tunnel-visionary leadership who are great at talking-the-talk …and then just walk away.I’m afraid itisn’t that these folk don’t know what they’re doing – they know it all too well. The sociopathology of
