D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee will fire somewhere between 24 and 30 principals at the end of the school year, in large part because under the rules of NCLB she's required to restructure 27 chronically-failing schools.
The head of the principals association, meanwhile, evidently finds it inconceivable that replacing a school's leader could help improve its performance:
Frances M. Plummer, executive director of the D.C. Association of Elementary School Principals, called the firings "wholesale and heartless" and said Rhee was damaging the school system."To cut people loose at this juncture does not benefit children," she said. "If you are about the children, you should be about the teachers and administrators, too."
Is there, in Plummer's mind, a juncture at which such firings would be appropriate, I wonder? At least this nonsense was buried at the bottom of the article.
