If you have never experienced an abusive administrator while teaching in
Georgia, then you are one of the elite group of lucky people....or maybe
your perception of abusive administrator is outside the norm for most
people.

With a few exceptions in certain schools, career administrators and
carreer principals and career central office personnel are incompetent
and vindictive and unethical.
Just being incompetent is no crime , but the combination of the above
makes a deadly combination.
And why does this happen? because there is no
accountability...principals and administrators do not have to maintain a
revenue stream like the real world companies.
When a pot of money is assured from the tax payers to come in year after
year, and you have tenure and a good retirement, genereous benefits and
you can fudge attendance data and cheat in standardized tests to meet
AYP.....all of this creates abusive administrators!!!

On 10/30/09, Missing GA wrote:
> I have never experienced an abusive administrator and I believe
> that principals only put on teachers what the central office tells
> them they have to do. My former principal even opted out(when
> given a choice) of some "new things" in order to avoid putting
> something new on our plate only to have the central office later
> tell us we too had to implement the latest and greatest. I do
> agree with the person that wrote that GA's teacher preparation
> programs do need to be more rigorous in math and science. One
> course in EC Mathematics isn't enough. We are teaching our
> children to learn the process of computation in order to get the
> correct answer. We are not teaching for understanding. I taught
> my first graders math the way the TE suggested or how I was taught
> with the occasional fufu project. I recently went on the NCTM
> (national council for teaching mathematics) and one article's
> author suggested that teacher prep programs require 9 semester
> hours of mathematics. I am not against it. It may require that we
> spend more time in college but maybe just maybe teachers will get
> the respect they deserve for knowing what they are teaching and
> knowing it well. The same goes for science. It has to be more
> about memorizing processes, formulas and facts.
>
>
>
>
> On 10/29/09, nbct not that big a deal wrote:
>> Before NBCT's holders start bashing me, I want to say that I was a
>> teacher in the classroom until last year. I think teachers are
>> abused in most cases and administrators keep on putting too much
>> on our plate, while they beef up the non-teaching staff to do
> nothing.
>> No wonder there is the us against them mentality.
>>
>> But NBCT is not that big of a deal and I dont think it deserves
>> that supplement. We have principals and AP's who dont teach and
>> yet get the NBCT supplement just because they have that
> certification.
>>
>> Make the Georgia teaching program more rigourous..make high school
>> math and science teachers take more rigourous solid classes in
>> math and science rather than these fufu education classes.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/09, Cyn wrote:
>>> I think the military deserves anything they can get. Keep on
>>> rewarding them, I say! I think the US and GA have
>>> established priorities. Unfortunately, education is not one
>>> of them. Nevertheless, the military earns its money. Until
>>> we see education as a matter of life and death, nothing will
>>> happen. Think on this.
>>>

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