tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post5066328807195803179..comments2024-03-27T11:28:13.401-06:00Comments on Education Matters: Education Stories the local media is ignoringUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-9770009342203742522015-10-17T16:24:06.928-06:002015-10-17T16:24:06.928-06:00RE: the culture of fear is at the top of the pay s...RE: the culture of fear is at the top of the pay scale, even tho we have tenure, because the union is so worthless. New, untenured, teachers are being cut big breaks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-73777457989228432512015-10-15T20:09:55.914-06:002015-10-15T20:09:55.914-06:00And discipline is non-existent. Teachers have to ...And discipline is non-existent. Teachers have to call parents before every referral. I have 200 students and 40 of them disrupt class daily. All I do is call parents on my precious planning time. Then I write them up and the dean is supposed to call the parents, but he doesn't. But before I write another referral, I have to contact the parents again. The dean gives warning, warning, warning for everything. The only one getting a consequence is the teacher, when you consider all we have to do before writing a referral, and the crap we take from unruly students and the admin telling us we write too many referrals. The child won't change until he gets a consequence and a warning is a joke. I have huge classes filled with kids on the school to prison pipeline, because they sure aren't getting an education. I feel sorry for the kids who want an education. The teacher next door to me had a student push her out of the way to walk out of class and she was told she couldn't write him up because she hadn't documented 3 interventions yet, including parent contact. I remember about 5 yrs. ago calling the union because an administrator told me I had to contact a parent before every referral I wrote and the union rep said, "No you don't. They're just trying to prevent you from writing any referrals." But, as usual, DTU has capitulated on this I guess. And these huge classes are very difficult to manage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-25638644934712598362015-10-15T20:06:31.663-06:002015-10-15T20:06:31.663-06:00That culture of fear started the first summer Vitt...That culture of fear started the first summer Vitti started at DCPS. I know people who work on Prudential Drive, and they were talking that summer, telling me to wait and see what he was really like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com