There are too many of them, most of them trying to figure out ways to justify their existence. Like writing memos, for instance. ( Or should I say, cut-and-pasting and reissuing memos that they --- or someone else--- wrote last year.) Puzzling out this BS is just an added burden/distraction for the teacher and results in less productivity.

Two things are certain, however: 1. we are attracting the WRONG people into school administration and, 2. they are being attracted for all the WRONG reasons.

I signed the petition despite the fact that it's , imo, slightly off target.

It succeeds in drawing attention to yet another educational "elephant in the living room": the quality of school leadership. In general, the quality is *abysmal*.

It has been my experience that the best teachers don't go into administration anyway. Some, like my aunt, will do it for their last 3 years so it will increase their teacher retirement. Great teachers want to TEACH and they didn't go into education to make a lot of money. I was a classroom teacher in Texas back in the 80's and most of the middle and high school principles and assistant principles were ex-coaches. The thing is, in Texas, the head football coach generally makes more than the principle, so the principles were MEDIOCRE ex-coaches. And yes, they are bullies.