I will fight Paul Litten becoming the principle with all I have.  This man in my opinion has NO business working at the school in any capacity and that includes cleaning the floors.  What a wasted space he is.  I heard that Cain may be it.

I heard it mentioned at a social function.  I have heard that he is a great choice and being considered for the position.  I do not know if he is "in" yet.  
 
I have heard things come out of Litten's mouth that make you wonder if he hears what he is saying.  IMO Litten is the WORST choice.
 
I found the last year of Barber to be only so-so.  I believe she knew she was movin on up way before we did.  She never solved the problem of certain teachers being late for school last year and was well aware of it.  I felt it set a bad example for the students as they are punished for excessive tardiness.  My child was in the hall when all the other students were being taught because the classroom was locked and their teacher was late again.  Several parents were unhappy about this.

MR Cain and Mr Nalls were my two choices for being principal at Hoover last year. I dont know much about Bishop with the exception of his brief public speaking appearances  

doll, let's analyze your post, shall we?  First, not everyone is bashing Mrs. Barber.  I for one found her to be an outstanding administrator.  Some of the "bashers" did not have the same experience as I had with her.  And just like I had a very positive experience with Mrs. Barber, I had an equally negative one with Mr. Litten.  I have dealt with many administrators, having put three children through the Hoover school system and he ranks right up there with...well, he doesn't have much competition in the ranks of the sorry administrators.
 
I dealt with Mr. Cain also.  I dealt with him when he was at HHS.  I have yet to find an administrator who cares more about his students than Mr. Cain.  He is now in a school with "troubled" kids, both from a discipline problem and from a "not fitting in" issue.  I don't know if you've ever set foot inside Cross Roads (which is actually two schools - Second Chance and New Beginnings).  He took the place of Mrs. Williams, who was very well liked by her staff, but did not have complete control of her students.  Being "liked" is not a job requirement of a school administrator.  Being respected is.  And as much as I like Mrs. Williams, I respect Mr. Cain - and I guarantee you that his kids and his faculty respect him as well.
 
Mr. Litten is and was in over his head at SMS as the 8th grade principal.  You do not, under any circumstances, "socially promote" a student.  He did.  I asked one of my children today who he respected the most at SMS during his time there.  His response?  Mrs. Barber.  And the least?  Mr. Litten.
 
But it doesn't matter what you or I think about who's going to be the principal.  The choice has already been made and now it is just a formality of make it official.  If you or I don't like it, too bad.  We can't fight it.  And even if we do, it won't matter.  He (or she) will stick.  That's just the way it works.

You know I come on here to try to put something positive about two fine administrators not calling out anyone's name who also posts on this site, but instead of having the right to my opinion, dolfan wants to "analyze" my post....
 
I said it "seems like" so that should take care of the rest of your argument.
 
Just because you have one negative interaction with someone, anyone, that does not mean they are "sorry"...boy, I bet you are hard to be friends with....you act like you are the only one that has dealt with administrators in Hoover, I have also dealt with many of them in many different ways, and by and large the majority are very well qualified and do a good job (some are just not as qualified as others for various reasons), even though people disagree with them at times, and have bad experiences with them at times, (a good leader always makes some people mad). Of course, like any school district in this country, there are some that should not be there, of course that goes for teachers, secretaries, cleaning people, etc.....schools do not have monopoly on robots, they are human too.
 
I will tell you that your information regarding Dr. Williams is completely erroneous.
 
If social promotion is your only problem with Mr. Litten, well it happens everywhere, not as much as it used to, but it is still occurring in ALL of our school systems...there are positives and negatives to social promotion, I am sure you know the negatives.
 
I do agree with Synergis....both Popinski and Kneisley are very good administrators.
 
So, I would like to be able to post my opinion and not be "analyzed" (I am glad you think you know so much more than I do about the Hoover School System)....I just would like to have one positive thing noted about Mr. Litten, he deserves at least one supporter....I am sure he has more, but most people don't have time to sit on these forums.

Good God people....I am allowed to have my opinion as you are allowed to have yours, without being insulted...there are very few administrators that I would have negative comments about, but I don't keep on and keep on about it on a public forum. I wanted something positive said and I have said it,...Mr. Litten has been employed as an administrator for 19 years with Hoover City....not the longest tenure but definately a good record...if he has POd you off recently, and I really haven't heard anything specific, except that someone believes he socially promoted a child, and for your information, only a principal can do that, teachers and assistant principals can provide input, but only an IEP team or the principal can make the final decision, but again if he has POd you off recently, then I am sorry, but as I said before, any leader that pacifies everyone is not a leader they are a patsy.  
 
Done.

Thank God Cain is the new principal. Think about this....looks like Barber left Simmons in such bad shape that they had to call the Crossroads principal to fix things.