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The solution seems straightforward then. Stop devoting resources to raising the standards for teacher certification/retention and instead devote them to raising the standards for principal certification/retention? Can we do the same for superintendents?
By the way, I was once at a meeting of educators (college professors of preservice/inservice teachers) and they were lamenting the fact that many preservice teachers just weren't prepared to deal with the issues like threats (from students and parents), drugs and violence in schools nowadays. I suggested that, instead of trying to train teachers to deal with discipline issues, perhaps we should change the school environment so that our teachers can, um, actually teach without having to worry about such issues. Their response -- well, that would require a new paradigm -- and they quickly returned to discussing how to prepare teachers to deal with these issues. Why *not* a new paradigm?
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