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Principals who do not follow through

by Gary

May 13, 2016

Our principal is pretty good but near the end of school he tells the students over the intercom but then fails to follow through on what he says. Also, when I send a student to the office, I expect something to be done but nothing. I sent this student back in april for an infraction of the school rules ( which are in the handbook) and I mentioned that they broke the rules in the handbook in my class as well as receiving warnings. The principal says the student will be going to ISS the next time he is sent down. I had to send him today and I also found out he was sent by another teacher today for doing the same thing in both classes. What happens, NOTHING. conference and when they came back they were worse than before. As they came back in class they said "I didn't get in trouble" and sat down. It is really frustrating when you are trying to follow through on the rules and do what is expected of you as a teacher, but the principal does not follow through on what they said they...See More

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Vivian On 5/13/16, Gary wrote: > Our principal is pretty good but near the end of school he > tells the students over the intercom but then fails to > follow through on what he says. Also, when I send a > student to the office, I expect something to be done but > nothing. I sent this student back in april for an > infraction of the schoo...See More

May 13, 2016

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Veuzent Sorry for the previous blank post. Something is strange with the website because it sent the message as soon as I entered my name. I have not had this problem. I taught middle school band and orchestra. However, I always felt students got off to easily with referrals. Hence, I never sent students to the office and instead would require them to stay...See More

May 13, 2016

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Gary On 5/13/16, Veuzent wrote: > Sorry for the previous blank post. Something is strange with > the website because it sent the message as soon as I entered > my name. I have not had this problem. I taught middle school > band and orchestra. However, I always felt students got off > to easily with referrals. Hence, I never sent students ...See MoreOn 5/13/16, Veuzent wrote: > Sorry for the previous blank post. Something is strange with > the website because it sent the message as soon as I entered > my name. I have not had this problem. I taught middle school > band and orchestra. However, I always felt students got off > to easily with referrals. Hence, I never sent students to the > office and instead would require them to stay after school > with me and "make up the lost class time" by practicing while > I worked around my room. I would arrange it with the parent > so they would know that on a mutually-agreed-upon day their > student would stay after school with me. I would send a > reminder note to the student near the end of the last period > of that day. They always came. It was valuable because I > could actually hear how they practiced, would occasionally > make suggestions on how to improve, and often they would end > up saying, "You know? This is actually kind of fun." I made > the consequence related to the violation, too. One time a > student was dropping pieces of paper all over his area of the > floor. So, he "got" to come and help clean up the room after > school. Usually I never had the same student twice. > Vivian

Thank You for your reply. I have tried keeping them after school but due to our school policy, I can't do it. They do run a sports drop off students, but I was not allowed to use it. He also did not want me contacting parents so he nixed that situation. I tried to have them come in before school when they were dropped off and he said no students in the rooms before school. I tried having the students make a mess in class stay after or come in later and pick up the paper in class and apparently that goes against Board policy, just like having students grade papers. It seems like everything I have tried it gets nixed. This has happened to all the teachers. The band director got in trouble for sitting a students in the hall because he was misbehaving during class. The principal always tells us to send them to the office, and when we do, nothing really happens. It gets frustrating. I have made several phone calls home but it does not seem to help either, especially with the students who are in trouble all the time.

May 16, 2016

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