"I want to know exactly what they've been doing to get their worst principals up to par".
But, so far, even the worst principals and vice-chancellors have kept their jobs.The re-racialisation of South Africa?Most ANC policies are sensible.
Education Department officials who have been laboriously grading the schools all summer say that in the first year 15percentt of schools will receive an A, 40percentt B, 30percentt C, 10percentt D, and 5percentt F. Anticipating the worst, principals are already considering how to deal with a possible avalanche of queries and complaints from parents.
Or, worst, the principal would call and want a meeting with my parents in the morning.
As school administrators struggle to cope with a teacher shortage that ranks among the worst in history, principals and superintendents are increasingly looking overseas for at least a temporary fix.
"G.M. is the biggest of the three and it's in the worst shape," said John Casesa, principal in the auto consulting firm Casesa Shapiro Group.
Of continental countries, Germany suffered the worst shortages, though the principal publishers were able to stay in business; in many respects a worse ordeal awaited them in the postwar inflation.
"That is ill-advised at best and unconscionable at worst," said Harold Evensky, a principal at Evensky, Brown & Katz, a financial planning firm in Coral Gables, Fla., that is part of the Alpha Group, an influential caucus of financial planners.
Educators and employers are constantly yelling that you young people have an affirmative responsibility not to post anything where a teacher or principal or, worst of all, boss or potential boss might find it, which gets the ethics of the situation precisely backwards.
The city is suffering from its worst shortage of qualified principals in decades, with only about 12 candidates applying for each vacancy, compared with more than 50 in 1996.
