Re: JBHM needs to buck up their own business

terrorized

Posted on 10/20/10

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On 10/14/07, fedup wrote:
> On 10/14/07, fedup wrote:
> The whole company is nothing but a glorified publishing
> company. Teachers work too hard to be terroized by a
> bunch of has beens
>
>
>> On 9/24/07, deltagirl wrote:
>>> This year we have had our first taste of JBHM. Here
>>> we are calling it PBJ-- it is full of nuts and hard
>>> to swallow! Our district DEMANDS that we use the
>>> new "PBJ" in our English I and II
>>> classes. The program is very poorly organized (very
>>> hard to teach) and filled with mechanical and
>>> grammatical errors. When we complained to our
>>> consultant (also the author) about the mistakes she
>>> said that it was just a draft copy. For this our
>>> district paid $36K? Are any more of you on the new
>>> English II program? On 6/14/07, IMO wrote:
>>>> Look at the consultants. They are burned out
>>>> teachers who were honestly not effective in their
>>>> own classrooms. Just check and you will find out
>>>> how foolish it is to buy their sales pitch. The
>>>> entire operation is a house of cards. Soaking big
>>>> money out of the schools is their buisness, their
>>>> only business.
>>>>
>>>> On 6/07/07, girl in gulfport wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> LOL!!! Same here. 3 years and 3 consultants. We
>>>>> went from a 2 to a 4. But it was the constant
>>>>> monitoring of the not so great teachers that
>>>>> did it. If the principal had been doing that
>>>>> all along, we would already have been a 4 or a
>>>>> 5.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/31/07, we had a consultant too wrote:
>>>>>> She told us all the usual - differentiate,
>>>>>> small groups, use MCT sample items, interest
>>>>>> inventory & styles, wait time, coteach, etc.
>>>>>> You know-the kinds of things we all already
>>>>>> do.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/31/07, we had a consultant too - more wrote:
>>>>>>> The consultant told us that if we did what
>>>>>>> she said we would be a level 5 school. We
>>>>>>> were already a level 4. She mostly told us
>>>>>>> what to do about inclusion.

currently being tormented and ready to quit and leave the
profession for good. my students beg me not to use the
program because they like my style better and hate being
treated like elementary students but after being chastised
by the consultant and principal - i have to do it, at least
try. i hate going to work everyday now.

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