So what’s your answer to the question?
>>So what’s your answer to the question?
I think the administration should be punished first and then the teachers by the amount that they gave in to the administration. A lot of these urban teachers are 1-3 years exp. that know that the administration can spend a week observing them and find 3-100 violations of “standards” which they can force the teacher to resign for.
For example, I used to teach in Jackson, Mississippi. We had a superintendent that, through text messages, tried to seduce another male MARRIED principal. The district spend almost a MILLION in legal costs to defend him. Then, they had a bond issue in which 1/3 of a $150 million bond issue that was supposed to fix every school in the district DISAPPEARED. We teachers wondered where it went, while knowing where it went.
Basically, urban school districts suck. The $$ goes to admin and not teachers, and then the teachers are blamed for all the crap the admin caused. The term “three and flee” comes to mind, all a future admin has to do is “teach” three years (while a good teacher takes at least 7-10 to develop) and have a masters in education and BOOM - part of the system.
It’s sad to say this, but I’ve seen a “three and flee” admin bug the hell out of a 35 year veteran teacher until he left. We’re talking about an old white guy that had a 100% black class silent for 90 minutes every class, every day, leave because an admin was writing crap about him on his performance reviews and sitting in his class daily and then calling him into district because of his “bad methodology”