tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post9173090012205678041..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: @TIME Gets Tenure Wrong, Part I: It Is NOT Hard To Fire a TeacherDukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-7535978363152028932014-10-26T10:25:17.862-07:002014-10-26T10:25:17.862-07:00Love your writing...
Just wanted you to know who I...Love your writing...<br />Just wanted you to know who I am, <br />http://www.opednews.com/author/author40790.htmland hope you will read my articles "Bamboozle Them," and Magic Elixirs.<br /><br />I experienced the war on teachers when I was a the top of a successful career, NY S Educator of Excellence, and chosen by Harvard, as the cohort for the National Standards Research by Pew.<br /><br />Simply put: a principal can say anything, slander any teacher if the union looks the other way. Over a hundred thousand Americans who happened to be teachers were victimized... out they went... and just like a hospital would fail if the practitioners were removed, the schools failed.<br /><br />It is so simple, http://www.speakingasateacher.com/SPEAKING_AS_A_TEACHER/No_Constitutional_Rights-_A_hidden_scandal_of_National_Proportion.html<br />The media did the dirty work 20 years ago, just as they are doing it now... those bad teachers... but here is the truth... every word of it. i wrote this years ago, but a 'mere' teacher like me, as no voice...silenced by Time inc and all those who sing the song of Duncan, and the billionaires who want to end public education and the road to opportunity Broad/Koch/Wlaton/Murdoch/GatesStraight Talkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03373213638409292670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-82394481412801319772014-10-26T07:26:57.730-07:002014-10-26T07:26:57.730-07:00In the age of nonstop 24/7 teacher bashing, in the...In the age of nonstop 24/7 teacher bashing, in the age of the war on public school teachers, it's unquestioned given "wisdom" that our schools are failing and that the main cause is those bad, ineffective evil teachers. The Rheeformers contend that we can fire our way to success. So tenure, seniority and LIFO must be obliterated along with teacher unions, bargaining rights and teacher pensions. And yet the states that have effectively eliminated tenure, seniority, bargaining rights and unions are much lower performing than NJ. NJ is always in the top tier of states as regards educational performance. The right to work states have much lower ranked schools than NJ, CT and MA.Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-35304161939618726972014-10-26T06:55:32.636-07:002014-10-26T06:55:32.636-07:00Another teacher hero at yet another school shootin...Another teacher hero at yet another school shooting. From crooksandliars.com:<br />"That's right. An unarmed, petite, first-year teacher stopped the shooter, but that won't stop conservatives from calling teachers thugs. Remember this the next time someone around you says teachers are overpaid thugs. She put her young life at risk to save those students."<br />http://crooksandliars.com/2014/10/first-year-teacher-intervened-marysville <br />Sadly, it's not just conservatives bashing teachers, it's also so called liberals like Duncan CT governor Malloy, NY governor Cuomo and some so called liberals in show biz.Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-65575156955303098092014-10-26T06:44:43.768-07:002014-10-26T06:44:43.768-07:00Be very careful what you post on Facebook. From nj...Be very careful what you post on Facebook. From nj.com:<br />A township teacher lost her tenured position and recently had her teaching license suspended after making inappropriate comments about a student's name on Facebook, according to the state's licensing agency for teachers.<br />http://www.nj.com/passaic-county/index.ssf/2014/10/teachers_license_suspended_after_she_literally_cant_stop_laughing_at_students_name.html#incart_m-rpt-2Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-84664008471311634292014-10-25T19:11:32.217-07:002014-10-25T19:11:32.217-07:00There are a lot of us who were illegally fired by ...There are a lot of us who were illegally fired by school districts and forced into destitution. School districts can and do fire teachers all the time and for the stupidest of reasons because they game the legal system to their benefit. They don't care about the proper use of taxpayer funds, and their legal teams tell administrators you can do whatever you want, force the teacher to sue, settle, and sign a gag order so the district can target others. Or starve the teacher to sign a severance agreement prior to any hearing while they give up their rights to sue, possible unemployment compensation, and force them to sign a gag order in exchange for a "good reference" which doesn't guarantee that teacher will EVER work in the field again (almost all school district applications ask if you resigned in lieu of dismissal, which means if you check off "yes," your application is tossed into the garbage can along with those who have been forced to resign, "dismissed," or "non-renewed," since all are firings). Administrative law is a cruel sham in virtually every school district in the country with the possible exception of NYC. School districts treat it, teacher contracts, and civil law like toilet paper. They do it because they can. Meanwhile, principals and other administrators are nearly impossible to fire and continue their careers on the backs of teachers they have ruined.<br /><br />You actually have to have gone through this sham administrative "law" process to truly understand the truth teachers have NO real rights at all. All kinds of things occur in those hearings that would get lawyers disbarred and administrators thrown in prison if they occurred in criminal or civil proceedings.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16042368771115647117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-86382643542600981362014-10-25T13:48:41.054-07:002014-10-25T13:48:41.054-07:00Here's another one to add to the list of teach...Here's another one to add to the list of teachers wrongfully fired. http://www.abc15.com/news/region-northeast-valley/fountain-hills/fountain-hills-school-board-fires-longtime-elementary-teacher-pam-aisterTeacher Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17023044658046241555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-21984879997590008512014-10-25T11:50:00.470-07:002014-10-25T11:50:00.470-07:00The Polanco story sounds like a case of a teacher ...The Polanco story sounds like a case of a teacher attempting to use dark, edgy humor to deal with a heavy topic... to sort of joke your way out of a tense situation.... while getting a chuckle from the suicide kid.<br /><br />Using humor this way is not choice I would make, but it's not the "smoking gun" tenure horror story the TIME author makes it out to be (As as JJ points out, the only such story included in the article)<br /><br />To make a full judgment on this, I'd have to know more context: the general atmosphere of the room, the teacher's prior relationship and rapport with the students, etc. <br /><br />At the very least, the administrator could have used progressive discipline, and merely given Polanco guidance which, if the teacher promised to follow---and carried through on that promise---should have ended the matter.<br /><br />This is reminiscent of a scene in STAND AND DELIVER where the teacher Jaime Escalante teases different kids about some idiosyncratic trait a particular student possesses. He mixes humor with the calculus lessons. <br /><br />In particular, he teases one prize math student---a female---for dressing too sexy, or acting too sexy or whatever... thinking that, like in the past, she was okay with this and could laugh at herself.<br /><br />After the class leaves, she tells him privately that she doesn't like this anymore, and could he please stop. Instantly guilt-ridden, Escalante apologizes and promises to stop. <br /><br />But no... not in the Brave New Campbell Brown era... there's no room for nuance or context. Teachers are always guilty and never proven innocent.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911854468188214107noreply@blogger.com