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Student Teaching Bullying

by Debra Karr

Dec 2, 2011

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, > but the silence of our friends." - Dr. Martin Luther King > Jr. > > Student Teaching Bullying By: Debra Karr > > It was 11:00 AM on this Thursday morning, one month into my > student teaching semester. I had just finished teaching > Charlotte Evensen’s freshman English class at Warren High > School in the Downey Unified School District. Evensen was > one of two master teachers who supervised me and had been > in the room during my entire lesson. The students had just > left the classroom and Evensen called me to her > desk. “Please come back and see me at 6th period” she said. > 6th period was nearly three hours away, so I presumed that > what she needed to tell me wasn’t that pressing. I obliged, > and came back to see her during 6th period. > It was now roughly 2PM. Evensen and I stood in her empty > classroom. She began, “You will no longer be doing group >...See More"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, > but the silence of our friends." - Dr. Martin Luther King > Jr. > > Student Teaching Bullying By: Debra Karr > > It was 11:00 AM on this Thursday morning, one month into my > student teaching semester. I had just finished teaching > Charlotte Evensen’s freshman English class at Warren High > School in the Downey Unified School District. Evensen was > one of two master teachers who supervised me and had been > in the room during my entire lesson. The students had just > left the classroom and Evensen called me to her > desk. “Please come back and see me at 6th period” she said. > 6th period was nearly three hours away, so I presumed that > what she needed to tell me wasn’t that pressing. I obliged, > and came back to see her during 6th period. > It was now roughly 2PM. Evensen and I stood in her empty > classroom. She began, “You will no longer be doing group > work in my classroom.” > “Fine” I said, “but may I ask why? The group work was a > teaching strategy strongly suggested by my teaching > credential program at California State University Long > Beach (CSULB) and I was just implementing it.” > “Well you will not be doing it here”, she > continued, “Because while you were teaching with group work > this morning, students were being sexually harassed and > bullied.” > I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. “Really?” I > asked, “Which students were being bullied and sexually > harassed ? And where were they sitting?” > Evensen did not give me specific names-just gestured > vaguely to one side of the room and barked, “those kids > over there.” > I then said, “Let me get this straight… if students were > being bullied and sexually harassed almost 3 hours ago, as > you allege, why did you sit there and let it happen?” > Like a politician that dodges a question, she responded > with some general rant about how she was trying to help me. > I wrote down this conversation between her and I > immediately and put it into my journal, which is required > by CSULB’s credential program. I then went home and copied > this conversation into an email to my University Supervisor > Dianne Vipond. > I then received an email from Vipond telling me that I > would no longer be working with Evanson, but to continue my > student teaching and report to work on Monday. > That Monday I sat in an English Teacher meeting with my > other Master Teacher-Monica Shulman. 20 minutes into the > meeting, there was a knock at the door. The principal of > the school John Harris and the English Department Chair > Shirley Stewart stood in the door jamb. Ms. Stewart > said, “Ms. Karr collect your things and come with us”. I > went outside with them, and Harris said, “We need you to > leave campus until this thing is straightened out. We’ll > call you when it’s time to come back.” Feeling > criminalized, I went around the corner to the Starbucks. > Two hours later I received a call from Vipond telling me > that I should just go home and that I’ll be hearing from > her later. > 7PM that evening I was told by Vipond that I am no longer > allowed on the Warren Campus and that I’m not allowed to > contact any staff member, student or parent of Warren HS or > the Downey Unified School District. > I wrote an email to Dr. Karen Hakim Butt the now interim > Associate Dean of the College of Education at CSULB > requesting further clarification and all I got back was an > email from Downey Unified and CSULB saying that I was “not > a proper fit”. In sum, they kicked me out of student > teaching with no investigation, no inquiry as to what > transpired; no due diligence, no recourse. > I tried to get my money back for the last student teaching > semester, but the accounting office told me they needed > some special code from Dr. Hakim Butt who was out of the > office during the refund period, so CSULB still charged me. > 3 years of blood, sweat, tears, precious time and a > mountain of student loans with no teaching license to show > for it all (I've been told that Lesson Planet has me listed > as having one- that's an error, I only have a Certificate > of Clearance and a Master of Arts). Unfortunately, my > experience is not the only > one. This is how these corrupt academics earn their bloated > salaries. > >

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older regular I know lawyers that would have a ball with this one. Suggest you go lawyer hunting.....

Jan 29, 2012

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Debra Karr On 1/29/12, older regular wrote: > > I know lawyers that would have a ball with this one. Suggest > you go lawyer hunting.....

Dear "Older Regular" Names and numbers welcome.

Thx!!

Jan 29, 2012

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