On 9/20/14, anon wrote:
> Excellent post, Janice. Teachers are treated horribly all over
> the country, and it is getting much worse.
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> It has nothing to do with a teacher's ability if he or she gets
> sacked. It has everything to do with the outrageous power
> imbalance between teachers and administrators, and, in many
> states, those administrators like principals are unionized.
> They should have no unions or collective bargaining rights
> because they are management. They are virtually impossible to
> fire now.
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> A teacher gets kicked to the curb, and it is very difficult to
> resume a career, not least because of the weeding out
questions
> asked on job applications.
Read Memoirs of a Mad Black Educator at amazon.com. It talks
about the nationwide firing of teachers
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> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Alone, teachers are very vulnerable. I do not know how it
>> can be done, but a state teacher organization that
>> represent teachers is needed.
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>> Janice
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