{"id":196553,"date":"2008-04-15T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/15\/power-drunk-psychopath-control-freak-principal-bans-tag\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T21:31:00","slug":"power-drunk-psychopath-control-freak-principal-bans-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/15\/power-drunk-psychopath-control-freak-principal-bans-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Drunk Psychopath Control Freak Principal Bans Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, I&#8217;m referring to Robyn Hooker, principal of Kent Gardens Elementary School in McLean, VA, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/14\/AR2008041402988.html\">issued the edict because tag had become a game, &#8220;of intense aggression.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the peculiarities of being a principal in the US, at least at public schools, is that you cannot work your way up through the ranks.  You have to get a certification specific to being a principal.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, this means that either you went in with the goal of being a principal, i.e. that you wanted to be &#8220;in education&#8221; but you did not want to teach, or you decided that you really didn&#8217;t like teaching that much.<\/p>\n<p>So you get profoundly dysfunctional people like this, who think that any problem, and it appears that the tag <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">was<\/span> getting a bit rough can be solved with a mindless punitive over-reaction.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, they lack adult supervision, which is why teachers&#8217; unions are the way they are.  Would you want to work for someone like her?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, I&#8217;m referring to Robyn Hooker, principal of Kent Gardens Elementary School in McLean, VA, who issued the edict because tag had become a game, &#8220;of intense aggression.&#8221; One of the peculiarities of being a principal in the US, at least at public schools, is that you cannot work your way up through &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,1023,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-labor","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}