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lusciouskiwi · 09-26-2012, 10:09 AM

Not a happy camper. Still.

Went to a work dinner tonight but it was mostly managers since only one colleague turned up. The project manager pulled me aside afterwards and told me that at a state board of education meeting, there were complaints still being made about me. I'm "too forceful". The project manager wants me to "soften" my personality. To be "nicer". To just, in general, change my personality.

This complaint goes quite nicely with the only earlier this year, that I "show my face".

Maybe I should forget about doing my Master's and be a backpacker bum around Asia.

lusciouskiwi · 09-26-2012, 11:09 AM

Forgot to add, one of my teachers sent me a text message around 5pm saying that she and her two colleagues won't be at school tomorrow. Meaning that the workshop can't be held at her school. Teachers go home at 2.30pm but she couldn't text me then or even earlier.

Martina · 09-26-2012, 02:11 PM

Good news re discipline in our district. I just heard that they are going to jettison the zero tolerance policy.

Halleluja!

I think I posted this before. The ACLU talking points on the school to prison pipeline. It's old but, unfortunately, it still describes what is happening. http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/s...talking-points

Did anyone see the PBS show last night called Dropout Nation. I haven't yet. It's online now. I am a little afraid to. I heard an excerpt on the radio, and it sounded too obvious to be interesting.

Having been a teacher in so-called drop out factories for five of my seven years of teaching in California, I am kind of sensitive on the subject.

lusciouskiwi · 09-26-2012, 08:39 PM

Found out from one of my teachers, that the teacher who sent me an sms yesterday went ahead and informed the other teachers that there probably won't be a workshop today because she and her colleagues will be absent.

Hello?! I think that's MY job.

And, I emailed the Project Manager today and asked to swap schools for next year. There's a vacancy and it shouldn't make any difference to the new person since my schools are in the same general area - well, my schools are a bit more north. He had better bloody say yes.

spritzerJ · 09-27-2012, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Martina

Good news re discipline in our district. I just heard that they are going to jettison the zero tolerance policy.

Halleluja!

I think I posted this before. The ACLU talking points on the school to prison pipeline. It's old but, unfortunately, it still describes what is happening. http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/s...talking-points

Did anyone see the PBS show last night called Dropout Nation. I haven't yet. It's online now. I am a little afraid to. I heard an excerpt on the radio, and it sounded too obvious to be interesting.

Having been a teacher in so-called drop out factories for five of my seven years of teaching in California, I am kind of sensitive on the subject.

I am glad the zero tolerance policy is going away! I liked the talking points memo from the ACLU that you posted.

Funny for me, I work in a zero tolerance school, that doesn't really do consequences. And that drives me crazy. Both parts. Have policy, don't follow it. What? Well I should ammend that to say follow it only if the student is poor or non white. grrr!

bkisbutchenuff · 09-27-2012, 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by spritzerJ

I am glad the zero tolerance policy is going away! I liked the talking points memo from the ACLU that you posted.

Funny for me, I work in a zero tolerance school, that doesn't really do consequences. And that drives me crazy. Both parts. Have policy, don't follow it. What? Well I should ammend that to say follow it only if the student is poor or non white. grrr!

Zero Tolerance = Maybe - Maybe not....

lusciouskiwi · 09-27-2012, 04:25 AM

bkisbutchenuff · 09-30-2012, 04:55 AM

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Martina Senior Member How Do You Identify?: * Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: * Posts: 4,999 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,409 Thanked 18,284 Times in 4,167 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Good news re discipline in our district. I just heard that they are going to jettison the zero tolerance policy. Halleluja! I think I posted this before. The ACLU talking points on the school to prison pipeline. It's old but, unfortunately, it still describes what is happening. http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/s...talking-points Did anyone see the PBS show last night called Dropout Nation. I haven't yet. It's online now. I am a little afraid to. I heard an excerpt on the radio, and it sounded too obvious to be interesting. Having been a teacher in so-called drop out factories for five of my seven years of teaching in California, I am kind of sensitive on the subject.