Suspended Wake principal reassigned

If the guy's a criminal, tenure means nothing ! The criminal is to be placed behind bars!

The cr_p going on in that school as related by many above, goes on big time in NYC.
Many good teachers left NYC and moved to the north of NY state for better conditions. Mainly the politics involved in the education system in the city ! ! !

The real problem with testing expectations is not the Principal but a government and parents that think all children are smart and can learn at the same level. All children do not have equal intelligence nor do all children desire to learn what the schools have to teach them - yet everyone has the same expectations for all students. I have seen very few poor teachers, but I have seen a lot of students who are just warm bodies that occupy space because they are legally required to do so. Those students cause discipline problems and prevent students who came to school to learn from being able to learn. Too many children are making choices about their future that they have no right to make and as a result we have enormous discipline problems in the schools and very little teaching is able to take place. I can no longer believe that all students deserve an education when they choose not to take advantage of the opportunities they are given - a gift from every taxpayer. Teaching is often like trying to feed children liver and trying convince them that it is good for them! For many, it just ain't gonna happen often! As a student, I knew what I was supposed to do and was expected to do so by parents and teachers who were a united force. That unity no longer exists. Obedience was rated on my report card as was my ability to follow directions. Most students now are not obedient and are unable to follow directions. Their homework or class project often do not resemble the directions they were to follow. Parents are now too busy making excuses for their children and being their friends instead of being parents with appropriate expectations for their child. Parents are busing thinking that their child is the exception to all that goes on in the classroom. Children aren't all passing the tests that are full of expectations that every child will be at the same place at the same time in life. That seems normal to me. Every child does not walk at ten months and three days. So why would we expect every third grade child to be able to multiply and solve the same word problems at the end of third grade? It's time to admit that it's OK to be average instead of expecting all children to be bright. Being successful is relative - it is dependent on the amount of intelligence one has and the hunger one has for learning - which is not equal among students. Some understand better than others. Unfortunately some are satisfied with being average or below average because they have false expectations that they will be sports heroes or pop stars. One or two may very well be because they have the drive and stamina - the rest will certainly become disillusioned with the world and say that the world isn't fair after they passed up their opportunity of a lifetime to become an educated individual. All these test scores tell us is the number of student who have not learned the required material and it had nothing to do with the quality of their teacher. It has more to do with where the students are in life. When students know that they are to come to school to learn and quit interfering with the process - then maybe test scores should be measured. But for now, forget it! The nobility of the cause is to be commended - but it's not a realistic situation. I fail to see how anyone can read anything into test scores when all the societal variables are fighting against what they measure... All we really know is who is smart, who is average and who falls below average and that could probably be done without any tests at all! It's time we found a place for those students who are disruptive and have other agendas in life as they only hinder those students who wish to learn from learning. They don't want an education, they only are there because they are legally required to be there... It's time to get on with the real work of the schools and that's educating students - not babysitting those with a lack of desire for learning. Then, test scores might have some validity and there will be some reason to question the administration of a test...

My son worked for many years in the Wake County/Johnson county school area and was well liked by the children and parents. That was until one day he and the principal had a tiff over an issue with one student and his parents. The principal didn't like the manner in which my son expressed his opinion and in the end he was going to either except a "demotion" or resign from his position. Those were the alternatives offered to him by the principal and in the heat of the argument my son chose to leave not realizing what lay ahead. He has since been unable to get re-hired in any of the schools even though his record had been fine to that point. His wife has just received her certificate to teach and she too is having a hard time finding a position in area schools. Her situation is not related to anything concerning my son but if so many teachers are leaving the area why can't two people in their 30's, with a home and family find a job in the Johnson/Wake County area?

How many principal's have been reassigned this 2007-2008 school year now? Who are they, where are they now, and why were they reassigned? The summer is young.

I am perplexed as to why the author elected to use an obviously inflammatory word ("demoted") on the front page story, but opted for a more neutral one ("reassigned") for the related blog entry.

The way I understand the original piece, Mr. Williams himself asked for reassignment to another school to (in his words, as reported by WRAL) "gain more experience." That would imply (to me, anyway) that he requested the "demotion".

If he believes his performance is not all it should be at the level of principal and desires to take a step back to learn more of the inner workings of educational administration, I believe he should be applauded rather than persecuted. If more of our educators recognized their shortcomings and took steps to rectify them (at their own expense, I might add), student performance may not be as low as it is now.