The Principal: The Most Misunderstood Person in All of Education - Kate Rousmaniere - T... - 1 views
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In American public schools, the principal is the most complex and contradictory figure in the pantheon of educational leadership.
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A few years ago when I walked the hallways of a high school with my five-year-old niece Evie, she remarked, without prompting: “There’s the principal’s office: you only go there if you are in trouble.”
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Most remarkably, those very people who did not understand what a principal did were often the first to argue for the abolition of the role.
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