The principal's dilemma: A case study

• Main Author: Bachiller, Jovina N.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1978
• Subjects: School management and organization > Case studies; Educational Administration and Supervision
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/547
• Institution: De La Salle University

The principal could not concentrate on his work, because for the past two weeks, he had sleepless nights. He was very much worried over the anonymous letters which have come pouring into his office. All these letters were charging Ms. Ramirez, one of the faculty members of Santa Clara Academy, with having illicit relationship with one of her students. She was also charged with inefficiency and questionable collection of fees. The principal was not inclined to believe in these charges, but the inability of the teacher to submit her credentials made him believe somehow in the truth of her inefficiency. On the other hand, the Father Director told him that one of the students which Santa Clara Academy sent to college would be graduating that school year, and that she must be accommodated to teach in the parish school so that she could pay back her study loan. The Director had already decided on firing Ms. Ramirez to give her position to the returning scholar. Towards the end of the school year, Ms. Ramirez requested an efficiency rating from the principal after she received the letter informing her that her contract with Santa Clara Academy would terminate at the end of the school year. She pretended that she was planning to transfer to another school. The principal was too glad to grant the teachers request, because this would mean good riddance for her. But the teacher was wise enough she capitalized on this as evidence that she could not be fired from the school because of inefficiency. She also said she could show her diploma as proof that she had finished her B.S.E. course. What should the principal do? In solution to the problem posed on this case, alternative actions were given on the latter part of this paper.