When you take certain positions, you leave yourself vulnerable to attacks by both sides.
President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and interim Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Kirk Kelly find themselves in that position this week.
Locally, Kelly, the former assistant superintendent who was selected to his position by the Hamilton County Board of Education in a 5-4 vote last month, added two high school principals to his central office staff Monday.
While his staff now has three new former district principals, including Jill Levine, who was named chief academic officer after she was not selected interim superintendent, three schools have lost effective leaders.
One of the raps about the district in recent years has been the turnover in principals. When a principal shows leadership in a school, it’s been said, he or she is moved to the central office and rarely heard from again.