On 7/10/14, mini wrote:
> I will be naming people and places . They hurt me from
having
> a job and making a living. I meant no ill will to anyone.
> Yet, I was a target on a 4 month contract???
> Why hurt my career? What did I do to you? Because for 13
years
> I had great evaluations. I took a 4 month short contract
job.
> And I have been destroyed. I will name the district, school
> and person that has done this to me. Just to warn other
people
> what can happen to you. Because it is so unfair my career
> should end because of some 's petty hatred.
Sadly, this goes on all over the United States. Just one
person, a principal, can literally destroy your life over
literally nothing. And here these dolts in the privatization
movement, and even more than a few teachers, claim it is
"impossible" to get rid of a teacher. It isn't. Something as
minor as refusing the change a grade under a principal's
direction in order to appease an angry parent is enough to
destroy a teacher's career.
Even now, people think a teacher who was forced out or
"dismissed" "deserved" it, despite the reality that more often
than not, a school district administrator is the one at fault.
Unfortunately, school districts can and do rig it to help
their useless and insane principals and other administrators
in order to keep the "good old boy network" intact.
What's worse is school districts insist on having those
screening out questions that are designed weed you out of
contention for a job. The question goes something like if you
have ever been non-renewed, forced to resign, resigned in lieu
of a dismissal, or been dismissed, and, if "yes," you have to
give a date and a "detailed" explanation. As if anybody on
the HR screening staff is even going to look beyond the "yes."
Those questions need to be made against the law because it is
a form of blackballing. Besides, school districts already
have the ability to look up licenses for license sanctions and
background checks for criminal issues. Just something as
stupid as a personality conflict with a stupid principal or a
district violating FMLA or some other kind of issue having
nothing to do with teaching or public safety should not be
disqualifying. Those questions were put in years ago when it
was unusual for a teacher to be forced out because principals
simply didn't do it for reasons of classroom and school
morale. Only those teachers who really did deserve to be
forced out actually were. Now it's just any old reason at all
to cover principals' butts or save money on salaries and
pensions.
School districts don't even have to have a principal give you
a lousy reference. All they have to do is label you a "do not
rehire," and that is typically all it takes to ruin a
teacher's job search. School districts have been sued over
that designation of former employees.
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