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PSAT for 12-6-11: Principals, Unite!

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Julie Woestehoff

School principals are popularly portrayed as creeps, crooks, or idiots (anyone besides me remember Osgood Conklyn in Our Miss Brooks? OK, how about Glee’s Principal Figgins?) in films. My own experience of principals in the Chicago school  system has been similarly mixed. As a Local School Council (LSC) member, one of my first successful fights was getting rid of a do-nothing principal. The LSC’s choice appeared to be a dynamo at first but she quickly turned paranoid and never became … →