Whether you remember your school principal as a happy person or an angry person — or remember them at all — depends a lot on your comportment as a student. Karate-kicking out a window in your high school, even inadvertently, can inspire no shortage of very memorable behavior from an assistant principal. Believe me.
San Francisco’s school principals are, for the most part, tired. Times are tough and they’ve been tasked to do more with less, which is never a recipe for success, let alone contentment. There are fewer educators and staff in schools, and fewer resources.
The large and powerful teachers union has, more often than not, rolled over the San Francisco Unified School District like the Harlem Globetrotters. The smaller and weaker principals union, meanwhile, plays more of the Washington Generals role…