I almost forgot this...and it is too funny!
Every spring each high school makes up its master schedule for the following school year. Next year's students sign up for classes they want to take and the school puts together the class schedule for next school year. All students class requests are then fed into the computer and the computer assigns students to the classes...a good first run might be 80% of student requests met. Then the master schedule might be tweaked and eventually some students will be scheduled by hand. The entire process might not be finished until July.
In the spring of 07 the principal thought she was expert enough to handle this process so she and her sidekick put together the master schedule, ignoring the assistant principal whose job it really was to do this. By June, the principal's master schedule was only at 40%...YIKES...this is disaster for a high school...imagine students showing up in August with no classes to attend!!!
A scheduling guru...retired administrator...was hired in July to clean up her mess. Since he had worked with her before (during year one of her reign)...his condition for fixing the schedule was that the principal could not be in the building to bother him. District officials guaranteed this. Sure enough, he had not been working long when the principal showed up!!! He made a phone call to district officials, someone came out to the school and ESCORTED THE PRINCIPAL OUT OF HER OWN BUILDING!!!! I had to use Dave Barry-like capitals here. A principal escorted from her own building....after this you would think FWCS leadership would get it and realize what a loon they had on their hands. Nope, took three more months for her to do something even more embarrassing!
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Siesta girl-
Chris Beatty, Elmhurst English teacher, gave a great talk at Monday's board meeting. about kids who don't come to class, social promotion, discipline, etc. Of course it went over like a lead balloon. How about if another teacher (or a retired one) gave the same kind of talk at another meeting? Maybe if more teachers spoke up, they would eventually take it seriously.
Evert
All teachers could speak up and it might not make a bit of difference. There are some good things going on in FWCS, but I am not sure just the adults can make the difference. At a certain point, each student must take responsibility for his/her own education. With the new freshman community at South the number of freshmen not earning credits to become sophomores was greatly reduced to about 50. Those 50 did not take advantage of the opportunities and safety nets provided for them...whose fault is that? Unfortunately, our society sends a pretty strong message that education is not important...just become a reality TV star and it's your ticket to fame and fortune!
Thank you for your candor. I am a substitute teacher in other districts, I was pushed out by FWCS. Let's say this...if one subs long enough, you realize that poor administration creates poor schools and poorer students who have no respect for their regular teachers, let alone a sub. NO RESPECT FOR TEACHER + SUB. + POOR ADMINISTRATION = PURE HELL!
By the way, I am working for 4 area school districts, that have their students under control! Guess what, I am a valued sub.
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