TKC EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING NEWS!!! OBJECTIONS TO ALLEGED KCPS TACTICS FOR THWARTING TEACHER TENURE!!!
Tenure for teachers in Kansas City Public Schools has long been a controversial topic.
To wit . . .
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS RECENT BIT OF TESTIMONY REGARDING ALLEGED KCPS TEACHER TENURE TACTICS!!!
"It appears that KCPS has developed a unique solution to the "problem" of teacher tenure: fire teachers who will get tenure at the beginning of the following year. Qualified, competent, and dedicated teachers are having their contracts non-renewed due to their "incompetence," even though their performance evaluations do not support this allegation. Research has shown that teachers improve with experience, but KCPS may be courting less expensive, non-tenured alternatives."
I've actually talked to a couple of high ranking KCPS Insiders on this issue and they claim that they're WORKING WITH the Teacher's Union to save good teachers and get rid of the bad ones that might be protected by tenure. Sadly, so much of this effort is subjective and it will always be tied to politics. Therefore, the subject of Teacher Tenure and union relations is just another example of unresolved problems confronting the district as an impending School Board takeover looms in the not so distant future.
DEVELOPING . . .
They still award tenure?
ReplyDeleteJust another hanger-on complaining to TKC about not making the grad and being treated accordingly.
ReplyDeleteTipster=Whiner.
You really don't need any qualifications to teach niggers.
ReplyDelete"not making the grad and being treated accordingly"
ReplyDeleteThis is why we are doing so poorly as a city.
Teacher unions care so much about the students that they make it impossible to fire a bad teacher. I get how it's great for the teacher that pays union dues, but how does it help the student?
ReplyDeleteSounds like the full employment program it is!!!
ReplyDeleteAir-wick is an Uncle Tom who dances to rich White people's tunes in return for pussy from middle-aged White women. I have no respect for that jerk.
ReplyDeleteI know a couple of teachers going through that and they were actually pretty good. KCPS is simply trying to replace them with lower paid TFA (Teach for America) teachers who don't know jack about an actual classroom.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine standing in a classroom for 8 hours with a bunch of smelly apes.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous who asked how tenure helps students:
ReplyDeleteTenured teachers are the only ones who can speak out about abuses of administrative power. For example, administrators often pressure teachers to pass students who have not done the required work or to raise the grades of student athletes. Non-tenured teachers who refuse to cooperate can be easily non-renewed (and their careers may come to an untimely end).
I hope that I don't need to explain why it is a disservice to students and to the community to pass students who have not completed the required work.
In the last few years, KCPS has non-renewed a number of teachers in the spring (due to district financial problems)and then re-hired them in the fall. This means that, between April and August, these teachers are looking for jobs (yet continue teaching in April and May) and find themselves without health insurance in July and August. It would probably be beneficial to students if teachers could focus on teaching in April and May, instead of looking for a job and worrying about how they will pay for health care. Teachers who know that they have jobs spend the summer preparing teaching materials and lesson plans. Teachers with tenure don't usually have to spend five months of every year looking for a job--they can focus on teaching.
And I know that a couple of you think that we're talking about incompetent teachers, but we're not. We are talking about bright and talented educators who have tangible evidence of their successes in the classroom.
12:17 PM Your full of shit.
ReplyDelete"Anonymous" at 12:29:
ReplyDeleteYour statement requires the contraction, "You're." It means, "You are..." "Your" is a possessive pronoun.
The official term for your statement is an "ad hominem attack," which is a type of logical fallacy. While it is provocative, it is not an effective rhetorical device.
KCPS is not the only district that does this. A lot of districts non-renew teachers just prior to receiving tenure. The evaluations can be stellar, but they do not have to state a reason.
ReplyDeleteI know a principal in KS that was forced to do that by his superintendent. After a few years of that, he couldn't stomach it anymore and left to work in the private school system.