My daughter teaches in a metro high school that got a federal grant to improve student's performance. So far, the grant has been spent on salaries for a lot of bureaucrats with little check lists. The kids need books and technology and tutoring.(And more involved parents that money cannot buy.)
Wow, our grant has bought 4 wide screen TVs to play cartoons during lunch, the salaries of 6 people to tell us how to teach, no new technology, no new books, no new teachers.
We have added such worthwhile things to an already short day as the SAT daily problem, the character word of the week, and pep rallies. (OK, I can buy the SAT problem).
Once again, we are reinventing the wheel and using nothing we did before.
And the new administrators don't even know who we are.
They do know enough to tell us that we need to be on time for our lunch duties and while we can go to the bathroom on our way to the cafeteria, we need to plan our lunch on those days so we are on time. (translation: do not plan to heat anything up.)
And there is more in the AJC in Get Schooled. "Former HS Math Teacher" could be me. I wonder how I will survive in this environment?
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We got the word thing too.
And now classes are shortened one (or manybe two, not sure) days a month for staff development.
I'm so happy to be gone from that environment. I wish you could be gone from yours.
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