Firstly, she never officially said she was going to increased
class size and reduced aide support in kindergarten and she
never did either of those things. Secondly, she also never
increased middle school class sizes. She has made a lot of
changes and change is hard. I would agree the union has been
pretty aggressive. We will wait and see what happens. The truth
will come out be it good or bad. Either way this is bad for
DoDEA.

On 10/11/09, DoDDS Realist wrote:
> The union's been after Miles since last year, when she
> increased class size and reduced aide support in
> kindergarten. She also increased middle school class
> sizes. The union has also been mounting a fairly
> aggressive campaign against her this year as she is doing
> a lot of district office restructuring - seems like she's
> creating more management positions while increasing class
> size and reducing classroom teachers and aides.
>
> The accusations in this article certainly do add
> intrigue. The claims about the computers and airline
> tickets sound kind of petty, but circumventing hiring
> practices to get jobs for family and friends are serious
> issues, as is the wasteful spending of money for
> management retreats. My guess is that she will negotiate
> a very lucrative severance package and step down some time
> in the next few months. There might be more shake-ups for
> the people at the district offices - depending on how the
> next person wants to structure at that level, but life
> will go on as usual for us teachers.
>
>>> On 10/09/09, R wrote:
>>>> This is interesting -- wonder if anything will come
>>>> of it:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&arti
>>>> cle=65266
>>>>

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