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Re: Spotlight Newspapers | Local News

bcinsider — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:43:16 -0000

Six positive observations.
By five different people.
Which would seem to indicate that either she's a good teacher, or all five are separately and independently poor observers.

BC can't have it both ways, which is why the backlash is so severe when someone does speak out against their nonsense. Logic is so embarrassing to them when they're caught in their little games.

Re: Spotlight Newspapers | Local News

bcinsider — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:54:18 -0000

The administration (in this case, primarily Ms. Monroe) messed up the procedure when they fired Waltz the first time. She probably heard about that from her boss since it cost the district money in additional salary. I suppose Monroe couldn't resist showing Waltz who was boss by canceling those classes, even though they have nothing to do with employment with the District.

Re: Spotlight Newspapers | Local News

bcinsider — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:49:04 -0000

How many times did you daughter stay after for extra help? How many times did you communicate with the teacher about these grades? How are you teaching your child responsibility by simply claiming the teacher must be bad if she didn't get a high grade?

And how many sports teams was your daughter on while her Spanish grades were not up to your standards?

Re: Spotlight Newspapers | Local News

bcinsider — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:42:33 -0000

Complaints seem to flow directly to the supervisors, not to the teachers, because you like to "go over the heads" of the teachers who work with your children each day rather than taking responsibility for solving problems in teamwork with those teachers. I have never seen a district that allowed parents not to communicate with teachers directly first before escalating. That would not be allowed in any business or public setting. The supervisors who allow this should be ashamed. The ONLY response to a parent call directly to a supervisor should be "here is the teacher's phone number or e-mail."

The supervisors at BC are not evaluated. They do as they like. Some act ethically, some like to swing their power around. What they claim is taken as gospel by higher levels of the administration who close ranks with them at the first sign of a teacher willing to speak up against ridiculous allegations. How would you like to work in an organization where a person can be fired because a single supervisor says "Someone says their child said the teacher said..." and there is never a requirement that the supervisor back up his or her allegations with facts or names?

I have taught in other districts and there were never area supervisors. Rather, a teacher in each program was released from one class period of teaching to do administrative work. It worked fine, and the person was much more in touch with the reality of the classroom than someone like Ms. Bel, the foreign language supervisor, who cherry-picks the smallest class for her single teaching period of the day and spends the rest of the day playing with spreadsheets and having meetings to try to justify her job's existence. Or maybe improving her hiring skills would be a good idea? Either she can't identify competent teachers, or she is such a poor supervisor that it's necessary to fire a high percentage of competent teachers she hired in the first place. If she's identifying good teachers, why is she firing so steadily? Either way, it's a waste of money and impacts the learning of the students.

Of course, given that she has far less experience in the classroom and inferior interpersonal skills than many of the teachers she supervises at BC, she's probably doing the best she can as supervisor. Perhaps the blame in this case lies with whoever hired HER in the first place.