Update on the small appliance police effort

[southerncrone]

The word got back to our central office that we thought this was an overstepping of authority, seeing there were many other glaring problems that should be addressed.
So the "excuse" was that they wanted to make sure they knew where all these appliances were, so they could make sure they were turned off & unplugged over the summer vacation. Riiiiiight........

Many of us take them home over the summer so they don't get stolen.....so that was BS from the cowardly bastards. I understand the need for conservation & cost saving, but a simple email or two as reminders would have sufficed. We are after all, college educated, which is more than I can say for our Director of Maintenance. :eyes:

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[pnwmom]

1. unbelievably petty administration. n/t

[southerncrone]

4. New super this year, who we knew was a mental midget. Not only

is he a dullard, but he has placed under him bulldogs who are constantly on attack....attack of teachers, that is. Suppose he's good at getting others to do his dirty work, but doesn't seem to realize that it will come back to bite him on the butt.

Is an ex-coach who includes quotes from famous coaches in EVERY correspondence we get from him. Does that tell you anything? And the correspondence is so full of grammatical errors & ramblings that one doesn't actually read them, but must decode them. :argh:

[pnwmom]

5. Sounds like you need a new school board, too. n/t

[southerncrone]

6. They took care of the board a few years back. Instead of 12 members

they reduced it to 6 members.....easier to get 6 in your pocket, than 12. Small Southern town politics at work. The new super is "local", born & raised here. We had an EXCELLENT candidate from across the state that was NOT chosen because they said he never responded back. Truth came out that he was NEVER contacted & told he was in the running. How convenient for the dullard. You see what we're up against here.

Sad thing is we use to have an excellent system. One person CAN make a difference, ours has just been so NEGATIVE. He has brought our system to its knees in less than a year.

I don't need a new school board, I need a new horizon. ;)

[pnwmom]

7. So I guess the question is

how far away is the nearest good/decent school district?

[southerncrone]

8. I don't think it is within my commuting distance. So

I'm exploring "other options", as are many of my fellow teachers.

[pnwmom]

9. Good luck! I'm sorry for your students, though. n/t

[southerncrone]

10. Me, too. The very saddest thing is the teachers who are looking to leave

are the very ones who care the most for the students. We just cannot tolerate the BS that is being force out upon us. The ones who are staying are those who are there because the got the job by "local political connections" or are just there to collect a paycheck.

Just another step in dismantling public education in this country....make it impossible to be successful because of barriers or intolerable BS.

[pnwmom]

11. All the best teachers in our elementary school left when they saw the

writing on the wall. A few years later, all the schools were on a same-page-same-day-across-the-district curriculum. I still support the public schools' levy, etc., but my youngest is in private school now. Children aren't robots, and neither are their teachers.

[southerncrone]

12. We are in the process of going to the

on a same-page-same-day-across-the-district curriculum. They tried to force it on us last year & it wasn't successful. However, most of our in-service days b/4 the next school year are focused on coming up w/common assessments & syllabi.


Thank you for recognizing that we are not robots. The governments are trying to reduce the employee expense & the education budget is one of the biggest in that regard. Close down public schools, issue vouchers & "voila!"-- reduced employee expense! Teachers will be forced to teach at, generally, lower-paying private schools w/fewer benefits. Since most teachers are female, it is another way to keep women underpaid.

I hope your youngest is getting a good education & I don't blame you one bit for taking that path.

[pnwmom]

13. Thank you. He is getting an excellent education

with well paid teachers in small classes who treat students as the individuals they are. And I'd rather spend the money on his education than on vacations or a kitchen remodel.

The irony is that we moved to this particular school district because they THEN had a philosophy of an individualized education. New superintendent, new philosophy. We knew a cookie cutter education wouldn't work with our son, so we found a better alternative. (And yes, we tried to work within the system first, but these are critical years in a child's life -- we don't have time to wait for the pendulum to swing again.)

[Catshrink]

2. Good.

That's kind of what happened in our district. We made a lot of noise about it and they realized that the "savings" :rofl: were not worth the fight. I think most of us still felt patronized: "OK, we'll let you have your coffee pots" accompanied with a pat on the head.

[southerncrone]

3. "Now go back to your pens & be good little doggies until we jerk

your chains again."

Yes. Very patronizing, but they think they are so convincing in their "excuses" that it's comical.