TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! More charges that Kansas City Schools are finding new ways to shortchange students and teachers!!!
This information comes from a very reliable and awesome TKC Tipster who was appalled to learn of more alleged mismanagement by the Kansas City School District. Check it:
The School District needs to hire more special education teachers to work with students on Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Rather than hiring new teachers to fulfill this need, they are taking regular teachers and classifying them as 'highly qualified' and forming special education classes without explicitly using the term "special ed." Because the majority of the kids on IEP can be mainstreamed they are using this to form classes without compensating a teacher who is experienced in teaching special ed. Of course they are doing this over a month into the school year, disrupting schedules for many students, not to mention the teachers who will find their class assignments changed.The highly trusted TKC tipster says that this is yet another instance which marks Administration bullying of teachers doing their best to deal with an ever increasing workload.
Additionally, TKC IS HEARING MORE STRIKE TALK THAN EVER BEFORE . . . As Kansas City's School District teeters on the brink of collapse and even the most reasonable Kansas City residents (not me) are hoping that rumors of a State takeover are true.
posted by Tony Permalink
A teacher strike? The best thing that could happen.
KC students will learn more watching Oprah, MTV, and the Playboy channel than sitting in some union thug's classroom.
Thank Unions for your job and lifestyle asshole.
Unions ruin every industry they touch.
I think Tony got this tip from one of his special ed classmates. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Do you people really think that the union is to blame for KCMO schools?
Blaming teachers and their Union is a tactic of Johnson County people who gave up on Kansas City a long time ago. They only know what talk radio tells them.
A state takeover is the only thing that can save the district now. I saw it done in Chicago when I lived there and it worked pretty darn well.
The entire KCSD should be in special ed programs. The uncaring parents, the school board and the teachers union is responsible for raising a bunch of retards.
This is just another thing that Gloria can do. Put her in charge of this and she will get it to fall over the brink into complete disaster.
A case could be made that a very large number of today's children could be classified as "special needs" because so many of them today have difficulties learning. Or behavior problems.
When is a kid just UNDISCIPLINED rather than having "SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT" problems needing special care?
SpEd is very expensive because the feds have set the criteria. It requires multi-disciplinary staffings, parental involvement, lots of paperwork, and yes its' a bit defensive in nature because parents love to go to court to squeeze every dollar of service they can out of districts.
Districts which are short of money, short of trained special ed teachers.
What do you do when your district's parents are poor so you have just barely enough money to run the schools well, but that very poverty causes so much maladjustment in so many more kids that by rights MOST kids could benefit from 'Individual Educational Program" plans? Who's going to do all this?
A case could be made that the best thing many innercity kids get IS coming from their schools. Many wouldn't get a decent meal were it not for school programs. They don't get beaten at school. They're not allowed to run the neighborhood when they're at school.
Isn't there a point when there are SO many troubled kids that teachers, no matter what their training, are OUTNUMBERED?
Gently, I would suggest bloggers and critics get out of their basements and away from their computers and just quietly go find OUT what the schools are like. And what the KIDS are like.
What would surprise you the most is the difference between an inner city school and a suburban or parochial school where parental involvement is so drastically different. Even the noise level will tell you something.
I don't think teaching has ever been harder than it has been in the past quarter century. Especially at the middle and high school levels where kids are harder to manage.
Moreover, its easy to take pot shots when you don't know what's going on. I think we're lucky to have the teachers we DO have... our kids and the laws governing how they run their classrooms don't make their jobs easy!
hmmmmm....african studies rule the school board. kick them ALL out and have the state take over.
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