Dear school Board at the superintendent meeting I was wondering if you noticed what the teachers didn’t bring up when they were discussing issues. The workload, yeah it’s a problem but teachers know it’s a tough job with lot’s of work. They also didn’t mention pay and that’s because we don’t get in the profession to get rich.
When we talked about a lack of rigor and discipline and how leadership was a problem you all as much said you knew and agreed that they were huge hurdles we face as a district, well my question is, if you know these are problems why aren’t we addressing them.
Why aren’t you saying, we’re changing grade recovery so only kids that missed days for legitimate reasons or tried very hard but didn’t quite get it can take it, why aren’t you saying, the district will no longer tie principals evaluations to referrals or suspensions, why don’t we have an attendance policy?
You asked how you can get the teachers to buy in, well above is a good start.
I think my biggest frustration with the district is that we could start the process of turning things around by having rigorous classes, disciplined schools and teacher buy in if we were to support rather than blame them and we could have those things tomorrow and for free. We get those three things right, it’s then just tweaking and enrichment from that point on.
Chris Guerrieri
If you have a few minutes you should check out this video.
http://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/p/teachers-arent-like-bankers-why-merit.html
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