Principal By Jennifer in OK

As someone who hopes to move into administration sooner rather than later, I wouldn't use the term friendly as much as approachable. To have a "friendly" principal leads to accusations of favortism and principal's pets.

Trust me, I had an AP a few years back who did "friendly" stuff with certain teachers - the CLIQUE - and it led to serious confidentiality problems (they knew who was losing their job before the person losing their job!) and school climate problems. It's a good thing to have a principal that you are able to freely talk to without worrying about being judged. It's interesting that at my

school, it was a lot of the young 1 - 4 year teachers who were involved in this. The older, tenured lot didn't feel the need to brown nose and be selective in who they involve in their outside activities.

I think it would be interesting to ask (if possible) in the interview about the fine line between admin and teachers and the interviewees POV about it. It seems like our society is going to this buddy buddy thing that as we've seen in our classrooms with parents and their children isn't the most beneficial thing in the world.

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