Yes, it's true. I got on my university supervisor's bad side, and as a result, my
master teacher's.
A little background. My university supervisor had full time job already, and was
hired as a personal favor by the credential program director. My supervisor never
bothered to even show up in my classroom for the first 3 months.
My mentor "teacher", if you can call him that, hadn't taught in 20 years and only
showed up in my classroom the first 3 weeks of the year. This mentor "teacher"
was a longtime friend of my university supervisor, and got the job as a personal
favor due to being unemployed.
So, I found myself paying good tuition and working my butt off to be in what was
basically a jobs program for the program director's friends and program director's
friends' friends.
I wasn't getting an education; I was free labor. Completely unacceptable. So I filed
a grievance with the university.
I was allowed to complete the credential program and all my student teaching. I
had every requirement for a clear credential in mathematics with a supplementary
authorization in physics.
Yet, after the end of my student teaching, I was given a very large additional
written assignment. No other student teachers were given this assignment. It was
truly a three week assignment out of the blue with a one week deadline. I
managed to meet the deadline, and was given an "F". This single "F" was used to
justify not recommending me for a credential.
I petitioned for both a grade change and to repeat the class. Both were denied. My
earlier grievance was eventually rejected. So I sent my grievance to the California
Commission on Teacher Credentialling. They returned my file unopened saying it
was a university matter. I wrote the UC Regents. I wrote both my state senators.
Nothing.
So I applied to a Masters in Educational Technology program. Graduated number
one in my college. Top of my class. How's that for irony?
If you're interested, the school that screwed me over was UC Davis.
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