Independence schools residency requirement timed right
Lewis DiuguidThe Independence School District is right to require its principals, assistant principals and other administrators to live in the community they serve.
At Superintendent Jim Hinson’s urgings, the school board passed the policy last week, The Kansas City Star reports. The requirement will go into effect February 2015 and will affect about 60 administrators.
The timing is on the district’s side because of layoffs in school districts nationwide. It will compel more people to comply with the district initiative to keep their jobs.
But the move, though exceptional, would better serve the interests of the children, the parents and the community because the people running the schools would be part of the community they serve. They’d be fully invested in it.
Requiring teachers to live in the district would be a good next step.
Phil Cardarella
4 months, 1 week agoOK, in general, I favor residency requirements of this sort, but they should be PROSPECTIVE in nature. No one should be required to uproot, sell a home and move to keep their job.
When something like this is done without “grandfathering in” those who live outside the District now? That makes you think that the actual agenda is to purge some unpopular individual(s).