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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
What's on your mind?
25 comments:
Anonymous
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The hurt and pain of lost careers has begun. What can be done to help? Please offer encouragement and advice to our fellow members to get by with this pain and anxiety.
Lou, could we request a figure on thefts of teacher property? I heard another cell phone was stolen from a teacher at NBHS. Do the security cameras work? Let's share these continuing stories of fear--the fear of property being taken!
I've got an elementary principal who keeps "asking" for volunteers to man the booth at the job fair. Is she kidding? Does this clueless individual think that any teacher would try to recruit teachers to replace our colleagues who have lost their jobs? Total disrespect!!!
What a slap in the face. These principals know what Pia is up to and if she wasn't firing anybody like she claimed to the media, why would she need a job fair to recruit teachers?
I wonder how your principal would feel if she were fired then asked to help recruit her replacement. Some people really just have no clue as tooth gravity of this situation.
Any teacher who volunteers to man a booth should be ashamed to be a member of the NBEA! Perhaps we should man a booth with a sign that says: "run as far and as fast as you can from NBPS!!!!"
Feeling much like I did after 9/11. Lots of anxiety not knowing where the next strike will come from. Is my position the next to be eliminated??? Can't help but try to read everything in the paper and the blog to try to get a clue of what is next. So many rumors. It is particularly hard if you work in a school that is already a target. Will there be anyone left who is able to tell the story of where we have been and how far we have come??
Averagely good? Or could do better? Michael Gove is the UK’s Minister for Education, in charge of all our schools, and he is on a campaign to improve their standards. A school is rated as “good” if its pupils exceed the national average. Which is, well, good. But Gove has gone further. All schools, he says, must be “good” or better. Which led to this exchange when he was questioned by the Parliamentary Select Committee on education: Questioner: If “good” requires pupil performance to exceed the national average, and if all schools must be good, how is this mathematically possible? Gove: By getting better all the time. Questioner: So it is possible, is it? Gove: It is possible to get better all the time.
It is, of course, mathematically impossible for all schools to be better than average. It is mathematically possible for all schools this year to be better than last year’s average, if that is what Gove meant – though it might imply in practice a phenomenal rate of improvement. But “good” as defined says nothing about the year for which the “national average” is taken. If it is not this year, why should it be last year? Or the year before? Or, say, the year 55 bc? The exchange ended thus:
Questioner: Were you better at literacy than at numeracy, Secretary of State? Gove: I cannot remember. Source: New Scientist, February 1st,
Do you really think they'd hand over surveillance footage? Remember when Pia downplayed teacher assaults? She is notorious for withholding scandalous information, and lying to protect or cover up.
It's disgusting that any teacher would man a booth for the hiring of replacements for their colleagues that are being replaced or reassigned or forced to retire or quit..
The Principals have their noses so far up Durkin's butt that they will do anything. They fear for their own jobs. This is only the beginning. Teachers who do not cooperate with their Principals will surely "need improvement." Why can't people see what is really happening here? There should have been a vote of no confidence way back. So much anxiety, so many lives destroyed and here we sit.
I'm told the new principal of NBHS not only had a problem with honesty while in Providence, but had no respect for nor cared for women and minorities. Friends say he and Pia are cut from the same cloth. Remember Pia was the special education director in Providence where she was hated. This was before moving on to Boston where she was hated, then back to RI where she was hated. Then on to Attleboro where she was hated. Then on to New Bedford where......well, you get the picture. At least Pia doesn't discriminate. ML on the other hand.......
If you're a decent educational leader, you're reputation precedes you. If you're a poor educational administrator, you're reputation follows you. This is the case here in NBPS. Pia and her principals are string of bad apples between past and future rejects from other districts who learned quickly. Do parents, students, and teachers really want or respect administrators who have disingenuous backgrounds as leaders and role models? How disgusting and shameful.
Durkin, Pia M. (1990), "Vocabulary Acquisition in Context Reconsidered: The Effect of Word Type and Exposure Level on the Learning of Unknown Words", Ph.D. dissertation
The MTA is allowing the Massachusetts teachers union to be destroyed. They wanted to make history, they will... the downfall of teachers unions in America.... and it all started in good ole NB!
25 comments:
The hurt and pain of lost careers has begun. What can be done to help? Please offer encouragement and advice to our fellow members to get by with this pain and anxiety.
The poor teachers who have to wait until April 1 to learn their fate. WTF already.
It feels like we are all giving up. What's left for us to do? I am defeated. We are alone.
Lou, could we request a figure on thefts of teacher property? I heard another cell phone was stolen from a teacher at NBHS. Do the security cameras work? Let's share these continuing stories of fear--the fear of property being taken!
I've got an elementary principal who keeps "asking" for volunteers to man the booth at the job fair. Is she kidding? Does this clueless individual think that any teacher would try to recruit teachers to replace our colleagues who have lost their jobs? Total disrespect!!!
What a slap in the face. These principals know what Pia is up to and if she wasn't firing anybody like she claimed to the media, why would she need a job fair to recruit teachers?
I wonder how your principal would feel if she were fired then asked to help recruit her replacement. Some people really just have no clue as tooth gravity of this situation.
Any teacher who volunteers to man a booth should be ashamed to be a member of the NBEA! Perhaps we should man a booth with a sign that says: "run as far and as fast as you can from NBPS!!!!"
Feeling much like I did after 9/11. Lots of anxiety not knowing where the next strike will come from. Is my position the next to be eliminated??? Can't help but try to read everything in the paper and the blog to try to get a clue of what is next. So many rumors. It is particularly hard if you work in a school that is already a target. Will there be anyone left who is able to tell the story of where we have been and how far we have come??
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Averagely good?
Or could do better?
Michael Gove is the UK’s Minister for
Education, in charge of all our schools,
and he is on a campaign to improve their
standards. A school is rated as “good” if
its pupils exceed the national average.
Which is, well, good. But Gove has
gone further. All schools, he says, must
be “good” or better. Which led to this
exchange when he was questioned by
the Parliamentary Select Committee on
education:
Questioner: If “good” requires pupil performance
to exceed the national average,
and if all schools must be good, how is
this mathematically possible?
Gove: By getting better all the time.
Questioner: So it is possible, is it?
Gove: It is possible to get better all the
time.
It is, of course, mathematically impossible
for all schools to be better than
average. It is mathematically possible for
all schools this year to be better than
last year’s average, if that is what Gove
meant – though it might imply in practice
a phenomenal rate of improvement.
But “good” as defined says nothing
about the year for which the “national
average” is taken. If it is not this year,
why should it be last year? Or the year
before? Or, say, the year 55 bc?
The exchange ended thus:
Questioner: Were you better at literacy
than at numeracy, Secretary of State?
Gove: I cannot remember.
Source: New Scientist, February 1st,
The AG's office has a labor department; unfair labor practices should not be supported by any law.
The AG's office should be on this.
^ I thought about that.. teach here at your own risk.
Do you really think they'd hand over surveillance footage? Remember when Pia downplayed teacher assaults? She is notorious for withholding scandalous information, and lying to protect or cover up.
It's disgusting that any teacher would man a booth for the hiring of replacements for their colleagues that are being replaced or reassigned or forced to retire or quit..
These people are delusional.......
The Principals have their noses so far up Durkin's butt that they will do anything. They fear for their own jobs. This is only the beginning. Teachers who do not cooperate with their Principals will surely "need improvement." Why can't people see what is really happening here? There should have been a vote of no confidence way back. So much anxiety, so many lives destroyed and here we sit.
Principals who disagree with Durkin need improvement as well.
I'm told the new principal of NBHS not only had a problem with honesty while in Providence, but had no respect for nor cared for women and minorities. Friends say he and Pia are cut from the same cloth. Remember Pia was the special education director in Providence where she was hated. This was before moving on to Boston where she was hated, then back to RI where she was hated. Then on to Attleboro where she was hated. Then on to New Bedford where......well, you get the picture. At least Pia doesn't discriminate. ML on the other hand.......
Look, give Pia a break. She had to repost these jobs so many times--these are the best of the worst.
If you're a decent educational leader, you're reputation precedes you. If you're a poor educational administrator, you're reputation follows you. This is the case here in NBPS. Pia and her principals are string of bad apples between past and future rejects from other districts who learned quickly. Do parents, students, and teachers really want or respect administrators who have disingenuous backgrounds as leaders and role models? How disgusting and shameful.
Did Pia write the comment...Principals who disagree...?
Mayor Durkin could give a dam about the teachers. She is the devil incarnate.
Mayor Durkin, indeed!
Durkin, Pia M. (1990), "Vocabulary Acquisition in Context Reconsidered: The Effect of Word Type and Exposure Level on the Learning of Unknown Words", Ph.D. dissertation
Jesus.......definitely up her alley..and has used it marvolusly
The MTA is allowing the Massachusetts teachers union to be destroyed. They wanted to make history, they will... the downfall of teachers unions in America.... and it all started in good ole NB!
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