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spritzerJ · 12-13-2012, 05:26 AM

Yes this teacher is ready for the break.

Yesterday I listened to the assistant principal, in a sped meeting, with an advocate say sure we'd do something that is painstakingly impossible to do any other time. She agreed to the request that we entirely remove a student from the core grade level math program. Ha! I love it. First it is a fabulous idea (the core math program is hellishly awful). 2nd I would love to directly teach math to students. In class support is awesome and not for everyone. It does have scheduling ramifications through the roof so she now recommends (at my request) a team meeting again next week to hem and haw about it. Which I've almost decided is fine. I'll ask the questions, write down the answer, date the answer and when it changes I'll do the change and remind we could have prevented the problem. Because as she says don't worry my pretty little head about it....

And to top it all off... the staff meeting. About restructuring because we didn't pass the test so many years in a row. Wow NH is really lenient with schools about the process. So easy going. The principal says because we aren't one of "those" city schools we really don't need restructuring. We just have to go through the motions. "The process is really for those other schools with multiple languages spoken and poor parents who aren't involved. Besides it is just our special education students not passing the test." Ummm.... okay so our students speak English as a native language and we still have huge numbers of students with communication disorders so we do have language issues that require us to examine our instructional practices. And we are a title one school so technically we have those "poor parents" and kids with needs.

I've seen what is under the rug.... I know I'm supposed to just look at the pretty rug.

12-13-2012, 05:26 AM	#274
spritzerJ Timed Out - Permanent How Do You Identify?: Queer (gender), female (biological marker) Preferred Pronoun?: she will work as a default. Relationship Status: engaged to jac until 8/10/14 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Maine Posts: 3,154 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,307 Thanked 15,802 Times in 2,905 Posts Rep Power: 0	Yes this teacher is ready for the break. Yesterday I listened to the assistant principal, in a sped meeting, with an advocate say sure we'd do something that is painstakingly impossible to do any other time. She agreed to the request that we entirely remove a student from the core grade level math program. Ha! I love it. First it is a fabulous idea (the core math program is hellishly awful). 2nd I would love to directly teach math to students. In class support is awesome and not for everyone. It does have scheduling ramifications through the roof so she now recommends (at my request) a team meeting again next week to hem and haw about it. Which I've almost decided is fine. I'll ask the questions, write down the answer, date the answer and when it changes I'll do the change and remind we could have prevented the problem. Because as she says don't worry my pretty little head about it.... And to top it all off... the staff meeting. About restructuring because we didn't pass the test so many years in a row. Wow NH is really lenient with schools about the process. So easy going. The principal says because we aren't one of "those" city schools we really don't need restructuring. We just have to go through the motions. "The process is really for those other schools with multiple languages spoken and poor parents who aren't involved. Besides it is just our special education students not passing the test." Ummm.... okay so our students speak English as a native language and we still have huge numbers of students with communication disorders so we do have language issues that require us to examine our instructional practices. And we are a title one school so technically we have those "poor parents" and kids with needs. I've seen what is under the rug.... I know I'm supposed to just look at the pretty rug.