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Professional Darwinism: Update to OP on p.74
GSNW:
More fun from SS teacher.
He received a list of directives from admin (basically a list of "you may not...") and read it to all of his classes. This included assignments promoting alcohol use (discussed previously) AND telling his students that they must sign up for Twitter accounts and follow him in order to "discuss assignments" on the internet outside of school hours. This actually isn't a bad idea, but we have a secure kid-friendly program for that sort of thing that has been approved by the district, controlled by the teacher that uses it, etc.
He was told not to bring his javelins to school to throw on the field after hours any more (there are kids hanging out there) so he brought his shot-put instead. After his workouts, he has twice showered in the open area of the locker room until he was directed to stop, or use the private stall that has a curtain.
Perhaps most shamefully, admin decided he would not be allowed to administer our standardized state tests. There was an allegation from another round of testing (which are used in part to judge effectiveness) that the answers were either flat-out given or strongly hinted at. Another teacher has been pulled to administer the testing.
The weird thing is that our admin is very tight-lipped about discipline issues, as they should be. The only reason people know this stuff (regarding directives and not giving tests) is because he tells EVERYONE. It's almost like he is proud that he's "fighting the man." There seems to be no shame or self-reflection here. It's amazing.
jedikaiti:
If he doesn't want to be employed, I am sure another, better teacher can be found to replace him.
GSNW:
It is notoriously hard to be fired by our district. You pretty much have to punch a kid or play scrabble with a kid ... and even then. Word is that he's off to another school next year, this is known in our district as "the dance of the lemons."
Nemesis:
Finally finished reding all 234 pages of this thread! Took me just under a week to finish this!
I have a story to share about my ex-student who became an ex-colleague.
Marianne was previously a student who spent a couple of years continuously failing all her exams. After her third appearance with the academic intervention panel, she was excluded from the program.
She went to another university, did a different course, and graduated. Then she applied for a job as an admin staff with our program. So far so good.
Now because Marianne was previously a student in this program, she is friends with many of our students, though most of them had graduated by then. However due to certain circumstances, some of her ex-classmates were still studying in the program.
Marianne, being now an admin staff, had access to student records which was given so that she could enter data of new students. She used her access to look at her friends' records. If that were not bad enough, she started talking to other ex-classmates, gossiping about how "Johnny was always boasting about getting highest grades, but actually he was just barely passing..can you believe that????" Or how "Max told everyone he graduated but he is actually still enrolled as a student!" Or "Wow, Jane failed Advanced XYZ Class three times!".
If that wasn't brazen enough, some of these discussions took place on Facebook. Where she had also friended me, several other academic and admin staff as well as her direct supervisor.
Until today, she still claims that she was let go off because her direct supervisor was jealous of her popularity. ::) ::) ::)
ladyknight1:
Wow, I work in education and can't imagine doing such a thing! I hope she finds another profession.
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