Terrie Brady points out the superintendent doesn’t know what’s happening in Jax’s schools

Terrie Brady head of the DTU thinks the superintendent doesn’t know what’s happening in our schools a charge Education Matters has long made about the school board. In a recent article in the Times Union about discipline the superintendent was quoted saying: … teachers who complain (about discipline being unreported) are disgruntled employees who don’t represent the majority of the district’s 8,500 teachers.

Mrs. Brady disagreed and said: “I believe student misconduct is being
under-reported, but it’s not because of orders from the top of the district,” Brady said. “I believe it’s being under-reported because some administrators believe it makes them look weak, that it will work against them in the formula on school grades, and I think that some might feel pressured from mid-level administrators.”

Here is a simple way to find out who is right and who is wrong. Ask a teacher, there are 8500 of them in Jacksonville, what they think about discipline in our public schools. They will probably be more willing to talk to you than the media because many fear repercussions if they make their feelings public and that alone should speak volumes.