This Principal , instead of working with the staff, she actually made life more difficult for the staff. First, she closed the back door of the school and makes the staff walk three blocks up and around to the front of the school. Second she forbid teachers to send students to the attendance office, which is located in the basement and forces teachers to walk four and even five floors just to drop off their attendance folder at the end of the day. Finally, she has made little secret of her desire to get rid of many teachers she doesn't want in the school. The result has been an increase of unsatisfactory observations to teachers or so the rumor mill says. However, the worst part about this Principal is that she was the one who decided who to keep (untenured and lead teachers) and who to jettison out of her school. The problem was when Mayor Bloomberg lost the "turnaround school" battle, the teachers she didn't want are now part of her school staff.
My question to the Principal is simple. "Did you really believe that your staff would ever forgive you for your actions in the 18D process"? If she believed "bygones be bygones" then she must be taking the same substance that the previous Principal had in his car when he was arrested. No one will ever forget how your selection of teachers were politically motivated and not what was best for the students in the school. Even the "teacher of the year" was jettisoned while an untenured teacher with a mediocre reputation who could not even function during the 18D interview process and was retained.
I do not respect principals who would rather hire untested newbie teachers over experienced veterans and allow their students to be guinea pigs as these untenured and newbie teachers struggle to see if they can teach effectively. For these principals it is about their political wishes than what is best for the school's students and the Flushing High School Principal is more about one of those principals. Another example of the DOE's "children last " policy.