tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post222809360166544841..comments2024-03-14T13:50:26.981-04:00Comments on Chaz's School Daze: Has There Been An Increase In Teacher Incompetence Charges Under Section 3020-a? I Think So.Chazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-47650951119163989082013-05-02T23:29:36.661-04:002013-05-02T23:29:36.661-04:00Then, you've got the political witch-hunt case...Then, you've got the political witch-hunt cases, like that of Francesco Portelos:<br /><i>I was a member of the SLT and exposed that it has no power. They removed me and I exposed the lies and existence of the Rubber Rooms. Now they want me to tear apart the faulty 3020-A process? I can do that. The hearing, should they really choose to go that route, will be public...very public.</i><br />This is a nasty system that wants total obediance and no one acting in a civic-minded fashion (translation: doesn't want anyone asking serious or perceived serious in SLT meetings).<br />Hello, Liu, deBlasio, Thompson... Do you swear to end the wasteful witch-hunts? How has the decade of untold sums dumped into 3020a's and gotcha squads improved education? <br />Remember scores dropped and the gaps widened.GeoKarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463970361326939857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-48645783768735418702013-05-02T22:04:48.910-04:002013-05-02T22:04:48.910-04:00Chaz-
These charges will increase with the lifting...Chaz-<br />These charges will increase with the lifting of the cellphone ban, which most of the mayoral candidates have advocated eliminating.<br />http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/04/26/most-mayoral-candidates-would-lift-school-cell-phone-ban/<br />More cellphones = more opportunities for distraction and a worse Danielson score.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-63559097397667238802013-05-02T21:05:59.097-04:002013-05-02T21:05:59.097-04:00Burntout--the union is not "helpless"--t...Burntout--the union is not "helpless"--they gave our rights away with both hands and both feet. Not too helpless to leach off our paychecks, giving darn little in return!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-707572416095249862013-05-02T09:06:38.649-04:002013-05-02T09:06:38.649-04:00In years past, a teacher might receive a U rating ...In years past, a teacher might receive a U rating for a year, two years or more and perhaps at some point either a)"improve" b) transfer or c) the principal would find another victim to target, and the teacher would go back to the more deserved S rating. At no point was there ever talk of 3020 hearings, or losing one's job or license. Now, after a single U rating, principals are actually threatening teachers with a 3020 and in the last two schools I taught in teachers were being brought up on 3020 charges after a single U rating! Teachers I know were told to transfer or they would get a U rating and would be brought up on 3020 charges. I know of one excellent teacher, who was targeted for political reasons, who received a year-end U rating after a single observation that was actually a wonderful lesson. (We all know how ridiculously arbitrary the observations are.) The principal then told her to transfer or he would start 3020 hearings the following school year if she were still in the school. This is not an isolated case. The principals are out of control here and the union is helpless (despite the hearing officer's recommendation that the U be reversed, the DOE refused).burntoutteacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05448087701896945121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-52267527937303179722013-05-01T19:23:39.487-04:002013-05-01T19:23:39.487-04:00"I...principals see their last change to rid ..."I...principals see their last change to rid themselves of teachers they don't want or like for the nest two years and they are taking the opportunity to get rid of them using the present 3020-a process."<br /><br />How about teachers that are truly incompetent? Isn't that possible?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-62249282161029520382013-05-01T19:17:10.733-04:002013-05-01T19:17:10.733-04:00Hearing the same thing. Also wanted to share that ...Hearing the same thing. Also wanted to share that some of these incompetence cases have been already settled (with the teacher terminated) and the courts are beginning to side with the department again (there was an Court of Appeals decision released just yesterday where the court sided with the department, citing the evidence the DOE had accumulated). <br /><br />Elementary school teachers in Queens seem to be a favored target.NYCDOEnutshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10692665524124012171noreply@blogger.com