Front Page of Today's Trib
Hillsborough Teachers Actively Fighting Added Class Time
Some points to consider:
- School board members said this decision was Elia's to make and they won't try to reverse her decision this year. I believe that if enough teachers come together to warn of problems once this plan take effect and those problems come to fruition next year, the board will have plenty of ammunition and can throw Elia out. Fingers crossed.
- Michael Schutz, a teacher from Plant, asked a rowdy heckler at the last school board meeting to stop and told the person they were hurting the movement. I've expressed my concern to others about several teachers who are, seriously, insane and my desire NOT to be associated with them. Seriously. Insane.
- Elia clearly shows her incompetence when several board members remark that they heard about this rather huge change from parents and teachers instead of the superintendent. Others who heard from Elia said that she never told them the implications. Seriously. Insane.
- Elia said no one in the school district is going to lose their job. She's full of shit.
- Faliero hit the nail on the head. "People are finally reacting," she said. "They are actually standing for something. It's about time."
posted by kate @ 11:50 PM
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The article says that adding an extra period to teachers’ schedules in 27 high schools was an administrative decision and not a policy change. For that reason, it was not necessary for Elia to run it past the board. “Longtime board members Candy Olson and Carol Kurdell said they were told early on by Elia.” Did anyone think to ask Olson and Kurdell if they had the professional courtesy to tell the other board members the big news? “(April) Griffin said, "but something this big needs to have consensus from the board." Did anyone think to ask Elia why she chose to tell two board members and not all seven?
Has anyone looked up policy in a dictionary and contrasted it to administrative? Does anyone really believe changing all 27 high schools’ teachers’ schedules by adding an extra teaching period is not a policy change? Griffin says something this “big,” which is unprecedented in at least the last twenty-two years. Do we believe this major unilateral decision affecting so many lives is not a policy change?
Well, yeah, maybe so it’s actually a policy change, but the real important issue is the hecklers. That’s right let’s keep bring up those hecklers who prevented any forward motion on the issue. It’s the hecklers; didn’t you hear what Edgecomb said? "Those disrespectful hecklers are the problem." The hecklers are going to ruin it for the rest of us. Stop the heckling and quit worrying about the added teaching period. Heckler, heckler, heckler, how many times do we have to bring up a completely non-issue before we can get on with the real one.
This thing about hecklers is a big bunch of nothing! The board members are trying to deflect attention, plain and simple. We have a board that appears to be clueless and a superintendent who is taking full advantage of that fact
Yup----diversion, divide and conquer!!!!!!!!! good old school board tactic---oh yeah!! scare tactic is a biggie too.
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