Totally agree and could not say it better. Real folks who are student
focused.

On 10/21/09, Kurt wrote:
> All,
>
> Haven't we seen all of this before with the DODEA chiefs? Does
> anyone remember Vivian Gonzales - the "queen of bogus TDY trips?"
> Gonzalez took a 2-day to the Med on time, went to Vicenza at 8 in
> the morning, shook a few hands, took a few pictures, and then
> passed out a few awards. At 9:15 she was off to Venice with a US
> Army Master Sergeant driving her all day long and herping her
> shop. They next day she got up and went to the lagoon to shop for
> cut glass in Murano. These people are all fakes. They need to
> hire people for leadership reasons and NOT DIVERSITY! Anybody see
> any themes here.....Gonzalez, Tafoya, Miles........
>
> On 10/12/09, Be honest DoDDS Realist wrote:
>> 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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