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7. Do we really need principals?

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Nov 25, 2012, 06:36 PM

Nov 2012

I'm an exception in that I get along with mine (there are three, as I teach at an SLC school) and they are all about consensus. However, that's really rare.

What do they do that couldn't be done by teachers given release time for some of those duties?

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