Posted on 02/27/2015 8:56:56 PM PST by lowbridge
Debora Vailes re-posted on her personal Facebook page a photograph of a little girl crying because of the shortcomings of Common Core. Later that day, her school principal, Dr. Dana Nolan, after discovering the post, gave Deborah Vailes her first written reprimand and ordered her to refrain from expressing any opinion about public education on social media and to remove her anti-Common Core post from the social media site – ASAP. (The school district refers to written reprimands as a “documented conferences.”) Dr. Nolan further informed Deborah that she could not to discuss her opinion in public – on any social media or any public forum.
Two days later, Dr. Nolan held a mandatory faculty meeting of the Pineville Junior high school. She informed the faculty at the meeting that Deborah Vailes was reprimanded due to posting a negative opinion about Common Core on Facebook. Dr. Nolan warned the faculty not to share their personal opinions or speak-out in any way. After hearing about the Principal’s gag order, Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, issued an executive order that teachers were to be afforded the same constitutional guarantees afforded to all citizens. However, his executive order did not deter the Defendant, Dr. Nolan, from continuing her vendetta against Deborah Vailes.
Before Vailes posted her Facebook criticism of Common Core, she had a stellar personnel record; she had never received a reprimand. Since her public criticism, she has received three additional written reprimands. School administrators are now constantly visiting her class, when before her criticism of Common Core, such visits were rare. Dr. Nolan has stripped Debbie Vailes of her responsibilities, and placed her in a job category which, according to Vailes’ colleagues, will be eliminated at the end of the school year resulting in her termination.
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How about Twitter? :-)
However, most school districts have been seduced by the federal government. They have taken federal money in return for promising to follow certain federal guidelines.
LOL, what kind of double-talk is this? You just described their legal ties to the federal government while denying they are legal ties! What do you think that "promise" IS that they give for the federal money? You think it's optional? Hell no it's not - it's an acceptance of federal jurisdiction and everything that comes with it. "Guidelines" are federal regulations, period.
Why would you try to hide this simple fact?
Teachers don’t have Constitutional rights? I’m so confused.....
Brilliant
“The public school system claims to be part of the federal government. “
That is NOT TRUE, although the FEDGOV would wish that it were so. The public schools are at the very most state sanctioned but with local school boards, they should have a measure of local control.
In many cases, you're right, it is double-talk! The local school boards don't have to take any federal money; there is no law that forces them to do so.
But yet they always take the money. They take the money and the many strings attached to it. The school boards surrender much of their independence to the federal government in return for money.
So are the school boards part of the federal government? Certainly not! But are they puppets of the federal government? Often they are. That's could be double-talk, I admit. But it's also the truth.
:)Your bad.
You don’t post on social media.
Where do you work?
What subjects do you teach, pray tell?
dissent will not be tolerated
I a physics teacher (high school and college level). I have also taught chemistry and math. I have won awards for teaching science. But as you have noticed, I'd have great difficulty passing a 9th grade English test.
:)
I say no more.
Thank goodness there were no grammar or typing questions on my college science exams.
The day will come that you will not be hired for any public position unless you have a Facebook account, and we’re probably there now. They want to know they can check on your daily activities.
Out on the nuclear reservation all the people working on it were given government housing. One of the perks was they would take care of the place. The real reason was so when they were checking to make sure all of your light bulbs were working, they could snoop around and make sure you weren’t stealing any secrets.
I’m glad that can’t happen today.
Off topic, but I hope with this new Internet regulation thing the government will be able to keep our computers clean of all of that spyware and hacker crap.
Right. This analogy places every teacher in the USA in the position of an employee of the Federal Government. This is totalitarianism. You know, “totalitarian” is a good word. It’s very much to the point:
“... a political regime based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict control of all aspects of the life and productive capacity of the nation ...” ( Webster’s Seventh Tattered Dictionary )
Bingo! “Subordination of the individual”. That’s what you’ve got right here.
Yes. Free speech is over. Soon you’ll be charged with a ‘hate crime’ is you even question the liberal agenda.
This brings us to the subject of “internet neutrality”
a child is not a car....
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