Posted on 04/26/2005 9:33:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Tenured public school teacher making demands and claiming 'discrimination'.
Of course because she has to be briefed by race-baiting lawyers on the correct thing to say in public.
However, to be a tenured teacher, protected by a union, and to complain that your work environment is unfair to you does strike me as slightly funny.
Despite the headline, I don't see anything that points to an explicit racial issue here.
There is a slight implication that the principal was unqualified for her position, perhaps due to affirmative action, but the situation overall appears to be all smoke and no discrimitory fire.
Bad leadership is pretty easy to find anywhere.
Hey, do you think the A.C.L.U. will jump in to help this guy out? /sarcasm off/
Well . . . there is a union involved.
Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago gives a good account of the thinking processes and administrative skills of such craetures of the state as Principal Patterson.
Why take the sarcasm out? We ALL know they won't and your reply is 100% on the money. Now, if he were Muslim ...
She's a public skool principal, also protected by a union. If people think it's hard to fire a tenured teacher, just try getting anyone in administration fired. A bad principal can ruin a great school within months. 50 great teachers can be taken out by one awful, evil principal. This woman is doing what she's doing because she knows she can pretty much do whatever she wants without fear of reprisal. Even after this lawsuit, if she does manage to be ousted as principal, she will merely be promoted to a position where she can do less harm.
...yep
2. I suspect his charges are, nevertheless, substantially correct.
Underlying this teacher's complaint is a mindset of entitlement to a job at that school under supervision acceptable to the teacher!
as a teacher-
teaching is the only job you could do badly for 34 years and no one would care.
Yeah, we had one of those kind of "administrators" in Annapolis last year, supposed to make "peace" in the racially tense high school...LOL. Her leadership style made Robert Mugabe look like a philanthrope.
She finally got the boot, but only with a great big golden parachute... one of her final acts was to try and run a meddlesome Spanish teacher off the road. Now, I'm sure she is off ed-ju-ma-cating another group of young impressionable future Jerry-Springer contestant wannabes.
Would you say that if he was not a white male conservative?
I suspect I agree with your assessment 100%. :-)
"Despite the headline, I don't see anything that points to an explicit racial issue here. "
Besides, blacks cannot be racist.
You presume to be privy to the inner workings of his mind? As a teacher, he has a choice of teaching for that district, or taking a huge pay cut and teaching for another district. It's called "the golden handcuffs" of tenure. He leaves, and his pay drops substantially, even by half or more. Such is the gubmint pay scale. Yes, it's hard to get fired, but neither can he just leave. He could cease to teach. He could get job retraining. How many private sector people have to get out of their chosen career just because of ONE bad boss? Most people just leave for a different company.
If teachers were able to change districts without a huge pay cut, many of them would do so. They have better security but worse options than private employment. When I changed jobs in the private sector I always got $8-10k more for each successive job, even if it was mostly a lateral move. My pay was not on a rigid, government-imposed pay scale that will only give teachers 3-5 years of experience credit even if they taught previously in another district for 20 years.
My wife is a school teacher and this sounds EXACTLY how the schools are run around here.
The principal reminds of me a several she has worked for.
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