If you found yourself shaking your head when you discovered
our superintendent gave himself highly effective in 47 out of 48 categories
then you are not the only one. I have heard from teacher after teacher,
especially in this era where many feel principals have told been told to dole
out highly effectives like they were water in the desert, who have asked me who
this guy thinks he is?
They have shouted words like hubris and ego maniac, one even
said they didn’t think Jesus would have given himself 47 out of 48 highly
effectives. I personally think he would have given himself a lot of needs
improvement developing because he was always striving to do better.
Does anybody remember how Martha Barret would ignore
evidence and facts and give Ed Pratt Dannals schoolgirl crush type evaluations?
Well if this school bard follows her lead and Jason Fisher has already
indicated that he is going to then this will backfire. What good will that the
super brought to the table when he replaced super Ed will evaporate. A lot of
teachers where optimistic haven’t made there mind up about the guy and more
than a few aren’t impressed. He has done some nice things but he is far from
flawless.
I completely agree with you, my friend. Sitting members of our school board should think twice before putting on a love fest with Dr. Vitti. On the school level, administrators repeatedly tell us that they have no 'sacred cows' in their schools and thusly savage their teachers with evaluations that make them into sacrificial lambs - thanks to CAST. Why is it, then, that we allow our elected officials to line up to curry favor with the man whom THEY APPOINTED? When the school board bends over backwards to kiss up to any superintendent, it only empowers their APPOINTED SERVANT to believe that he immune to the ups and downs that are hurting our teachers' evaluations....
ReplyDeleteThere is another flaw with our school system. It would not be politically expedient for the school board to give poor ratings to the superintendent because such poor ratings would reflect badly on their judgment in hiring that superintendent.
ReplyDeleteAnd in a system that needs improvement he is adding three year olds to two schools in the fall and has added 20 more four year old classes. But 3rd graders are passing at a 56% rate....come on, stick to the K-12 and get our graduation rate up with out offering a dummied down alternate diploma.
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