tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post115975200776298306..comments2024-03-14T13:50:26.981-04:00Comments on Chaz's School Daze: Good Schools Equal Quality TeachersChazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-1160234008157682472006-10-07T11:13:00.000-04:002006-10-07T11:13:00.000-04:00Pissed off you are so right! In my school, we have...Pissed off you are so right! In my school, we have a 2nd year English teacher in her early twenties (from the Teaching Fellows program) doing PD on "how to teach" Advisory. Our Principal also advised the veterans English teachers to go and observe a first year Teach for America kid, because she says he knows how to use "academic language"....LOL<BR/>I just laugh, thank God I'm a Math teacher and my Principal doesn't have a damn clue about Mathematics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-1160017530133726492006-10-04T23:05:00.000-04:002006-10-04T23:05:00.000-04:00Principal's don't have to work on staff developmen...Principal's don't have to work on staff development--that's what the 20 something, 2-year teachers are for! They are the ones who come in on their days off to teach us old times how to teach!Pissedoffteacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924089808582137198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-1159805248711599282006-10-02T12:07:00.000-04:002006-10-02T12:07:00.000-04:00As you know, the New York Post, is an anti-labor, ...As you know, the New York Post, is an anti-labor, pro-corporate rag that would happily stage classes in Wal-Mart so that teachers could concurrently explain what enzymes are and fold clothes.<BR/><BR/>Good teachers and small classes are what's needed, in that order, and unless principals are equipped to recruit and retain these teachers (they aren't), the union-busting Post's vision will belong in fairyland, where it was created.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com