tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post3378440047632354519..comments2024-03-27T11:28:13.401-06:00Comments on Education Matters: How to get a highly effective evaluation in Duval CountyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-77703751073977902152015-09-19T14:34:49.155-06:002015-09-19T14:34:49.155-06:00True, true! From another former public school teac...True, true! From another former public school teacher.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-45669680802399493922015-09-16T14:56:59.936-06:002015-09-16T14:56:59.936-06:00Inner city= black. Not all black students,but...I ...Inner city= black. Not all black students,but...I digress. Referrals are a joke. They don't want any education going on in these inner city classes. No profit in curing problems. You don't need a PhD to understand that one of the major problems in inner city schools is the wild behavior not damn board config.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-18600240811683347452015-09-16T06:22:20.341-06:002015-09-16T06:22:20.341-06:00I quit writing referrals the last ten years of my ...I quit writing referrals the last ten years of my teaching career. I would only write referrals to protect myself legally after the fact and only if directed to by an Administrator. As a result my inner city classes were education free zones. That said my classes also became stress free teenage day care zones. I had one secretary to an Admin take me aside and tell me that my House Admin was just tearing up my referrals and throwing them in the garbage anyways - so why waste time writing them? Word of my "referral free zone" spread like wild fire and I actually had an Admin hold me up in front of other teachers as an example of how to run a clasroom. Well no, not if you want anybody to learn. But then that wasn't the objective was it? I could go on but why. I'm retired and you're not. Good luck suckers. It's a three shell Monte game with no pea run by DCPS. And you're not going to win. One last note to any Adim reading this - A teacher who writes referrals actually cares about the learning process. If a teacher quits writing referral like I did it's because they've given up.Heartless Aztechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239870131881488916noreply@blogger.com