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This was a 4 month temporary position, not a annual contract as
governed by the TEC/TAC. Getting rid of a teacher ona continuing
contract is near impossible it takes a minimum of 2 years to do so.
Even on a probationary or term contract, teachers have one of the
strongest contract rights in the state. You can not be called in on
December 2nd in the middle of the term and have your principal
fire you, as could easily happen at say USAA or any other
organization or company. Your pretty much guaranteed that
employment for a year (assuming nothing criminal).

If your boss tells you to change a grade, change the grade. If you
worked at a bank and your supervisor told you to do something
why anyone would think they could say no to their superior and
keep their job baffles me.

People are terminated for poor cultural fit int he workplace all the
time, and this idea that teachers get to be little rulers of their
classroom feeds that misperception. You work for the district they
tell you what to do, and you do it. Thats how "work" and
professionals handle themselves. You dont have to agree with it or
like it, you just have to comply.

Yes there are supervisors who are major jerks EVERY industry and
profession has them, grow a thicker skin, be on time, keep the
kids and the parents happy and collect your paycheck, its called a
job, for a reason.

On 7/11/14, anon wrote:
> 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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