Fruit/Admin Basket Turnover

The most important thing I've learned about working with my school administrators in the past term/year is . . . that I much prefer interim administrators to full time administrators. This has been a very turbulent year for my school in terms of administration. We started the year with a new principal after our previous principal left abruptly during the summer. I did my professional introduction and rather liked the new principal. He and I saw eye to eye about the direction of my program and that was a good thing. The year then changed dramatically when charges were brought against him and he was eventually forced to resign. The county quickly brought in an interim, who had recently retired, and asked him to stay on for the year. He has been a tremendous addition and I would love for him to stay on for several more years.

The turnover wouldn't have been so difficult if it were not for the fact that out of the nine administrators we had last year, seven of them were replaced this year. Out of the two who stayed on, one of them had to leave when her husband was put in charge of investigating the principal who had the charges brought against him. Honestly, I don't really know any of the new admin team because they have been fluctuating all year. It's like a chicken with its head cut off over here. 'Nuff said.