they haven't learned a thing

For many years, parents and teachers have been trying to hold a seat at the table where principalships are assigned.

The assignment of a principal to a school is an important decision. There are many stakeholders, not the least of which are teachers, staff, and parents. They have a right to participate in decisions that affect them. They have a right to participate in the selection of their principal.

The question is one of process and product. This decision to shuffle principals may be the best decision that the leadership of the APS has ever made. But they still did it all wrong.

To have made this decision in secret; to have disenfranchised stakeholders so completely; the leadership of the APS has manifest its absolute disrespect for the process that should have involved stakeholders.

There is no reason for having kept this process secret; except to deliberately disenfranchise stakeholders.

This is not so much a Chinese fire drill of administrators;
as it is absolute and incontrovertible proof that the leadership of the APS has

• no real interest in communication
• no real interest in site based management
• no real interest in delegating power and resources
• no real interest in stakeholder rights

and no real interest in being held accountable to any code of conduct containing the word "ethical".


...for a reason