A Challenging Offer For Potential Principals; Charles Recruiting, Training Leaders

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 28, 2001| Author: Nancy Trejos | Copyright information

It means long days. Lots of paperwork. The pressure to improve standardized test scores. Bus duty and cafeteria duty. Having to discipline misbehaving, sometimes even dangerous, youngsters. Those are all part of what it takes to be a school principal.

"The principal is accountable for everything, but he or she can't do everything," La Plata High School Principal Donald Cooke told an audience of Charles County teachers and vice principals thinking about taking on those responsibilities....

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