tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post7991813809659660765..comments2024-03-27T11:28:13.401-06:00Comments on Education Matters: Does superintendent Pratt-Dannals lack vision? Short answer yes (rough draft)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-29883740601204080312011-08-23T10:34:12.123-06:002011-08-23T10:34:12.123-06:00... excellent observations........ excellent observations.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-56373301421309991372011-08-14T12:44:50.270-06:002011-08-14T12:44:50.270-06:00What I posted today...
What PD says here is very ...What I posted today...<br /><br />What PD says here is very telling.....needs to spend more time on "school-based matters" NO KIDDING He has been making big bucks to go around giving speeches to different groups about lack of funding. He has been a public relations person when someone else should have been doing that.<br />He will not fire his friends. They have already been trained. Why would he want to make his job harder esp. as he might be toast soon anyway. He would then be jobless and friendless.<br />How can PD say things have improved on his watch. LIAR He is not honest as they say. When you have only 60 some percent of students graduating from high school???!!! A list of why this district has gone downhill. (short list)<br />1. His condescending attitude towards the teachers. Always keeping them powerless and convenient for him to blame and keep focus off his bad policies. Teacher morale has been low for about 7 yrs. Remember he was in charge of instruction BEFORE becoming the Super. He has run off so many good, seasoned, teachers!!!!<br />2. The Student Progressive Discipline Plan in which students are allowed to progressively get more disruptive before receiving any meaningful consequences (if at all) The district blames the teachers and tells them they need more CHAMPS training when the school goes out of control. Numerous fights everyday in many of the middle schools.<br />3. The RECOVERY policy which allows students who sit and do nothing, often playing around to do a little something at the end of the quarter so they can pass and go to next grade. In this county if a student is failing it is the teacher that has to explain and worry NOT THE STUDENT (God forbid we worry the student about failing)<br />4. The incessant micromanaging of the teacher so the teacher is so overwhelmed and stressed they become so less effective. He seems more concerned about the teachers keeping a folder than the students keeping one. The focus has been more about what the teacher is doing than what the students are doing. Teachers are not allowed to have even resonable requirements of the kids and have to pull all kinds of tricks to pass students so they(teachers) don't get put on a Success Plan (another reason our county going down)<br />5. Too much emphasis on teachers being trained, coached ,etc. He has hired coaches to go around with clip boards to see if teachers have certain things hanging up in the room. So if people from the state come out things will LOOK good.<br />6. Teachers working in hostile environments. The superintendent does not stop principals from harassing teachers and/or treating them in an unprofessional/unethical manner.<br />7. Sorry but differentiated instruction does not work in disruptive schools when teachers' classes are overloaded with sometimes as many as 60 students. And it is wrong to tell parents you are teaching students at their real grade level, ability, etc. Teachers can't always individualize instruction so quit saying they are. LIAR<br />8. PD is an educational bureaucrat not an educator and still operates with the good-ole boy mentality. Heard he has been working on his doctorate since becoming the super. True? Then he has his degree and experience to get out of Dodge. PUT A WEB CAM IN THE SUPER'S OFFICE<br /><br /><br /><br />Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-08-14/story/ed-pratt-dannals-right-leader-duval-county-public-schools-future#comment-454924#ixzz1V1vyHN5Tcactus58noreply@blogger.com