How do I get a High School Principal, who is a bully and harrasses teachers, fired?

This principal finds it her duty to constantly harrass teachers by issuing letters of counseling for any and all minor infractions. If a teacher has to go to the bathroom between classes and gets to their second class late, they get a letter of counseling. Walk away from a student instead of getting into an out of hand argument? LOC. Forgot your lesson plan? LOC. Bad handwriting? LOC. She has been known to issue these letters to teachers in the middle of their classrooms, right in front of the kids. Never does she attempt to have a conversation to find out a cause or issue a verbal warning first. Many teachers fear for the stability of their jobs.





Also, school policies and kids%26#039; schedules constantly change, leaving kids with no consistency in their learning environment.





This principal needs to be reported and issued with her own stack of LOCs. What%26#039;s the best way to go about this?|||personally, I%26#039;d go to the BOE (board of education) that%26#039;s who he/she is hired by|||I would go straight to the administraition. Have a conversation with whoever is the principal, and maybe even get the other teachers on your side.





And remember to add in the thing about the learning environment.|||Have I been there!! Problem in Chicago is that the Local School Council usually pick a principal and award them a contract. Go as high as you can (area personnel, superintendent, school board). Start a petition (anonymously perhaps). Get teachers who share your view to draft a letter to the school district and send a copy to your local newpapers. I don%26#039;t know what will really work. It%26#039;s sooo political/ who you know nowadays. Good luck, but keep teaching!!!|||Go to the board of education, but before going you should address the issue with parents and get some support on your side. You should also talk to the teachers and students. This way the board will not let this issue slip by because there is so much attention given to it. Talk to the board and get support of other people before doing it. And before you talk to the board of education you should talk to the principal, so that way the principal can not use this excuse: %26quot;Well, they never took the time to talk to me and I would have stopped of they talked to me.%26quot;


Need more advice


just holler at me.|||Principals answer to superintendents. Superintendents answer to school boards (boards of education). Follow the chain of command ... go to the superintendent first, then the board. No, talk to the principal first, if you haven%26#039;t already. Perhaps it can be resolved with a face-to-face meeting. School districts, almost as much as the military, hate when people jump the chain of command.





Of course, that%26#039;s assuming it%26#039;s your place to stand up for the teachers in the first place. If the principal is mistreating your child, that%26#039;s one thing. But if the principal (i.e. building administrator) is instituting policies and requiring them to be followed by her staff, that%26#039;s not necessarily your battle. Teachers in practically all U.S. school district are members of a union. It sounds like this is an issue for their building representatives and the entire local union, not you.





Teachers unions are strong entities. It%26#039;s not easy to fire a teacher, even ones without tenure. If the union hasn%26#039;t stood up to this principal already, there may be a reason 鈥?i.e. the union recognizes that the poor victimized teachers aren%26#039;t doing their job. Some unions, contrary to popular opinion, do acknowledge that there are people who shouldn%26#039;t be in the classroom. (Usually they%26#039;re the ones hired because their family is friends with a school board member, but that%26#039;s a different issue altogether ...)





FYI: I%26#039;m not defending the principal or the teachers. I%26#039;m married to a great teacher, and she wishes her principal would crack down on the teachers who don%26#039;t take their job seriously and put the interests of children first.|||I worked for a woman like this once, and she even did illegal practices. I found that the superintendent would do nothing, so I had to get an attorney because she fired me. In the end she was let go after her contract ran out. I found that you sometimes have to report them to someone outside of your district-- maybe your union leader and the ISD in charge of the district. Local administrators do not usually want to deal with friction like this so maybe the school board would be a place to start also. I hope this helps.