The Hour is reporting that Finance Dir. Hamilton believes that salaries are too high. Wonder when his boss will complain about the superintendent's high salary?
Ok - so the scare tactics begins. The Board and the Super should of presented a much more realistic number. Education is not poker or 'wishful' thinking - 6.9% was a high % to begin with and to really think that tax payers were going to accept it with all the mess our schools are currently facing. Deep and hard decisions will take place - decisions that should of been made before. As a parent I say start firing teachers, administrators and hold those responsible for not doing their job..like evaluations and lack of appropriate decision making. Its time to clean house - I have a child in school and I will worry about my kid and my kid only since everyone else wants to work solo. Steve, I like you very much but you need to start asking more questions and start making some very difficult decisions! For the rest of the Board - well I think little to nothing of you. Parents stay on top of your kids, watch the classes they take, get to your the teachers and create a relationship with them - let them khow who you are. Dr. Marks and Tony D - stop shouting 'rigor' when you don't know how to execute the word. Sorry!
@8:57, You are correct and I agree with you to a certain point in your argument. All those who are not towing the line need to be fired. It's called accountability. Our principals don't seem to have that word in their vocabularies. The point at which I disagree with your argument is when you speak to who executes rigor. The classroom teacher executes rigor and the principal evaluates it. That's where the link is broken, severely broken.
The Hour is reporting that Finance Dir. Hamilton believes that salaries are too high. Wonder when his boss will complain about the superintendent's high salary?
ReplyDeleteOk - so the scare tactics begins. The Board and the Super should of presented a much more realistic number. Education is not poker or 'wishful' thinking - 6.9% was a high % to begin with and to really think that tax payers were going to accept it with all the mess our schools are currently facing. Deep and hard decisions will take place - decisions that should of been made before. As a parent I say start firing teachers, administrators and hold those responsible for not doing their job..like evaluations and lack of appropriate decision making. Its time to clean house - I have a child in school and I will worry about my kid and my kid only since everyone else wants to work solo. Steve, I like you very much but you need to start asking more questions and start making some very difficult decisions! For the rest of the Board - well I think little to nothing of you. Parents stay on top of your kids, watch the classes they take, get to your the teachers and create a relationship with them - let them khow who you are. Dr. Marks and Tony D - stop shouting 'rigor' when you don't know how to execute the word. Sorry!
ReplyDelete@8:57, You are correct and I agree with you to a certain point in your argument. All those who are not towing the line need to be fired. It's called accountability. Our principals don't seem to have that word in their vocabularies. The point at which I disagree with your argument is when you speak to who executes rigor. The classroom teacher executes rigor and the principal evaluates it. That's where the link is broken, severely broken.
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