Texas teachers do not have a state organization to
represent them. Yes, teachers join different teacher groups
but about all they do is take the fees but do work to make
make conditions so that teachers can do their job--teach.
Which teacher organization stood against CSCOPE? NONE
Which teacher organization stood with the grassroots group
when they testifies before the Senate Ed. Committee about
CSCOPE? NONE
School administrators and even school board members have
support from the private organizations they are members of.
Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and Texas
Association of School Boards (TASB) are more in control of
Texas education than is TEA. The membership fees to TASA
and TASB are high but this is no problem for members--they
used school taxes to pay their private membership fees.
Teachers need to contact their representatives, senators,
SBOE rep, and any and everyone that has even the slightest
input and ask that school funds not be allowed to support
TASA/TASB. Bad Superintendents are never fired, they have
their contracts bought out and move to another school
district.An investigation just might reveal that this is a
way to make extra income for some unethical
superintendents.
Read the writing on the wall-- the importance of a teacher
is being diminished-- Quality, creative teachers are not
being sought. Do what you are told without questions will
get you a teaching position. As veteran teachers are
encouraged to leave, more and more teachers will be guides
until no particular training will be needed. This is not in
the distant future. It is here today. The PLC coaches of
teachers do not allow teachers to enrich lessons or change
the lesson to accommodate student needs. Thus there can be
no differentiation --just rote delivery of a lesson
designed only to prepare students for the STAAR tests.
I want to know how a PLC coach knows that one TEKS will be
more stressed than another? Have they viewed the upcoming
STAAR tests? Do the ESCs have access to the STAAR tests in
advance?
The Education Service Centers promote the lie that teachers
must be monitored. Without someone watching teachers
closely teachers would just teach what they like and forget
about the other standards. This lie has been told over and
over until it is being repeated by people far removed from
the ESCs. The ESCs train school board members-- Thus school
board members are brainwashed with the propaganda of the
ESCs. The ESCs are vendors--They have an unfair market
advantage because they are supported by the state and can
undercut the prices of other legit vendors.
Yes--teachers are treated unfairly.
Yes--Veteran teachers are more likely to lose their jobs
and are less likely to be hired.
Alone, teachers are very vulnerable. I do not know how it
can be done, but a state teacher organization that
represent teachers is needed.
Janice
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