-Rhode Island District Fires All Its HS Teachers
*Hat tip to Evie
Performance, it seems is abysmal. The district’s high school graduation rate is said to be less than 50 percent, and things have been bad for a long time. Charged with turning things around, the superintendent asked teachers (who are making between $70,000 and $78,000 vs. the town’s median income of $22,000) to work an extra 25 minutes a day, provide tutoring on a rotating schedule, and have lunch with the kids once a week. The union said no. So superintendent Frances Gallo went reluctantly to plan B: she fired the school’s entire staff.
Union leaders seem to think that the old rules still apply. Maybe they do, for now. The union plans to challenge the firings and it remains to be seen if they’ll find a way to reverse them.
But America is reaching a tipping point after which the old rules will go out the window. Having more than doubled public school spending per pupil in real terms over the past 40 years and not seen a smidgen of improvement in outcomes at the end of high school in return, having become frustrated that we have choice in virtually every area of life except public education, Americans are starting to chafe. When an education system fails to deliver on its promises for generation after generation, Americans will ultimately throw it on the scrap heap of history, and find something that will fulfill their educational needs and ideals. Yes. We. Can.
3 comments:
AWESOME LADY...BET SOME HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS COULD HAND HER A READY MADE LIST OF WHO GOES FIRST...
read the following - THAT is the result. I have seen it myself. the school of our Church in Wheaton, MD, where my grand daughters went and my daughter still teaches, graduated their last white student two years ago - my youngest granddaughter's class. now all the students are either hispanic with a few blacks sprinkled in. they still teach English, but as second language.
mind you - these students do not speak Spanish either, whatever it is they are speaking.
and NONE OF THEM PAYS FULL TUITION> some pay a little. the teachers had to take pay cuts. my daughter is leaving, she speaks three languages but refuses to "learn" Spanish to accommodate these people.
the principal at our school here in Pinehurst is from California - I knew it was a mistake to hire him! - has arranged for 12 mexican students from other parishes to attend our school: they are picked up by private car, one that was donated to the cause, every morning, and stay in school until 6 pm every afternoon, with supervised home work. then delivered back to the parents. all of these kids get remedial training - at the expense of the others, of course. so far none of these students has paid a penny for this. and the school bears the cost of the insurance and gasoline of the car, pays the teacher who takes care of them and drives them.
do they learn anything? no! on of the mothers told me to learn their language so I can understand her kid! I responded: "You are here illegally since how long (it turned out she went to school here 20 years ago and still does not speak the language), you pay no taxes and you refuse to learn out language. why should I?" I was told by the principal that I should not say that. I told him to fly a kite and walked out. and with me three other volunteers.
Good for you, Karin!!!!
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