The true story of when a conscientious inner-city school principal who is passionate about her belief that children will learn if they are properly taught, challenges some complacent dissident teachers who are detrimental to the education and safety of the students is ousted and  must battle a dysfunctional school system to regain her position. 

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SYNOPSIS This is the true story of Beulah Whyte, a conscientious inner-city public school who vows to make her newly built school, academically the best in the nation. She battles three opposing forces -- the teachers union which protects the incompetent teacher, a school system stifled buy tenure and complacency, and misinformed parents and community members. Racial tensions lurk silently in the background and she is ousted, not because she is black, but because she expects teachers to teach. Is she crazy? When some dissident and complacent teachers jeopardize the educational progress and safety of the students, she “rocks the boat” and issues “unsatisfactory notices”, but soon finds herself in trouble. The threatened teachers “gang up” on the principal and foster rumors, criticisms and complaints to parents, community residents and school officials about her. They resort to all means -- even death threats -- so that their positions are not endangered and they can remain in their comfort zone. School officials, the teachers union, and misinformed parents/community residents conspire to “get rid of” the principal. She is denied a fair and just hearing, the right to confront her accusers, and the opportunity to answer the charges leveled against her. However the persistent principal proves that perseverance pays off and the truth eventually wins over fabrications. She is reinstated as a principal, albeit of a school that has not been built!

PRINCIPAL UNDER SIEGE