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No, we have a number of teacher associations congruent to
TASB, just like TASB and TASA though teachers have to pay for
membership.

Actually, both TCTA and ATPE did stand against C-SCOPE but it
was a third party product that didnt require regulation and
in Texas with only a couple exceptions not even TEA can tell
a district what it can and cant do. Methodology and Pedagogy
has always been a local issues, as well as the decision on
how the curriculum will address TEKS.

Those organizations didnt stand against you because you
couldnt win, and you didnt. You got an optional component
removed, which since it was OPTIONAL meant nothing.

TASA and TASB membership is specifically permitted in school
finance law. These fees are pretty tightly regulated and paid
by the district themselves, and they really arent that much,
there are better and more lucrative means of embezzlement if
a sup was inclined to do so, capital projects pays a lot
better and is far easier to conceal, then a line item
membership fee.

Well if we had quality creative students maybe wed need more
quality creative teachers, when your school has a 90% advance
score rate on its EOCs then you can look into creative and
higher quality, until then we need teachers that can get
their students past the test, and get them to darken the
right bubbles on their score sheets. The only thing my
students are good at is taking selfies.

Thats been the idea for a decade, if teachers dont need to
create lessons and all they need to do is babysit and do a
song and dance presentation from a provided powerpoint we
dont need teachers with bachelors degrees, an associates or 1
year certificate will be the entry level teacher
qualification and only professional teachers will need higher
degrees. Those professional teachers will be the lead
supervising teachers of all those entry level teachers, who
will be responsible for signing off on grades and making sure
the entry level teachers are following the script.

All that rote delivery sure works pretty well in Asian
countries. They seem able to do math pretty well.

No they dont have access to the test they have access to the
stem and leaf content and criterion diagrams, which while not
an "X marks he spot" are pretty narrowly defined.

Teachers do need to be monitored, otherwise they just read
the paper and play on their computer, or worse play with the
student body, and thats not a lie if its not inappropriate
contact you end up with athletes and teachers pets who cant
do anything.

Well youd need to change Texas froma right to work state to a
union or "representation" state, it could be done.

On 9/20/14, Janice VanCleave wrote:
> 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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