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Moral rudders and superintendent values: the hardest choices arise when both sides are right. How do good leaders make these tough calls?(Cover story)
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School Administrator
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May 1, 2008
- Author:
- Kidder, Rushworth M.
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As Ellen recalls it, the case was remarkably complex. It had exploded dramatically in a midsize metropolitan school district, where a principal was arrested and led out of his school one morning on a sex-abuse charge.
Five years later, when Ellen became superintendent in that district, the case was still wending its way through the courts with a final appeal yet to be heard. The charge came from a woman who accused the principal of molesting her decades earlier when she was a student in his primary school classroom.
Ellen, who asked not to be named due to local sensitivities, found the case had sharply divided her Pacific Northwest community. Many colleagues of the ...