Friday, November 13, 2009
You're Fired!!!
Get ready for some massive firings at the end of this school year. One of the things privately discussed at the IPS Board weekend retreat was how many teachers will be let go. Start looking for a new job now and get out before they get you. Notices are expected to go out right before Christmas. All hands abandon ship!
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Seems like they are going after Art. P..E, and Social Studies teachers that the administration feels are not "good teachers", no observations, PIP, nothing. Sounds like a huge class action lawsuite and Unfair Labor Practice action. I hope you all signed your contracts, and are members of the IEA Union.
ReplyDeleteThey can't fire people without due process.
ReplyDeleteWho do you think you are, you are just a teacher, we were told that yoy were a horrible teacher that was creating all of the problems with student at the school that is being ran by a lack luster administrator.
ReplyDeleteNow we are the Board of Indianapolis Public Schools and we will do what Dr. White tells us to do, without one word of protest. "Wobble-Bobble Heads" led by the 1960's hair, will vote fire them all, no matter what anyone saids at the meeting.
It is going to get ugly. There are a lot of administrators that are out for blood. It's as if they have been told to meet a quota this year for firing teachers.
ReplyDeleteI am still wondering where the Mediocre Principal's List is.
Unless Dr. Bridgwaters visited in your classroom this fall, you're safe. Evidently she spot-checked certain classes at the building principals' requests. If she saw something she didn't particularly like, then she reported it back to the administration. Word is that the School Improvement team coaches are being assigned to assist these teachers. This all sounds like 'steps to get people out the door' without a lawsuit.
ReplyDeleteShe visited me but I didn't get any feedback & didn't get a coach. Should I be worried?
ReplyDeleteYes, you should be worried anytime that Bridgewaters is in your classroom. Never be in the room with her alone. Now that Ajabu is being replaced with Rocky Grismore, I wonder if our paychecks will be correct and on time.
ReplyDeleteThe comment about Bridgewater's is highly inaccurate. There are many, many teachers on the "list" that never once saw her. Be careful of your false sense of comfort.
ReplyDeleteAjabu is being replaced? I knew that Penn was already gone. Why do we do the IPS shuffle? If someone can't do their job, then make them leave. Oh, that's right. We only do that to teachers.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
ReplyDeleteMark Twain
At this point, everyone should be worried. Everyone except Dr. White, Dr. Johnson, and the Board.
ReplyDeleteThe principal at Washington is being moved to a newly created position at the Ed Center. Who will replace him? Has anyone heard?
ReplyDeleteI hope the new "she devil" vice principal at Washington does not become the new principal. She is evil and hates teachers. She also thinks her weight loss has made her a queen. She has created problems at every school she has been assigned.
ReplyDeleteIf Ajabu is being replaced by Grismore, then who's replacing him? And where is Ajabu going? Where did Penn go?
ReplyDeleteWHO has this list? Why isn't the union doing anything about it?
ReplyDeleteCan anyone explain to me how the teacher license renewal using a "professional growth plan" works and how many "points" do you get for what? Hopefully it would be less expensive than paying for 6 hours of college credit courses. It is on the DOE website but not clearly outlined.
ReplyDeleteThank God I have income from other sources and could just out of the building any day that I feel the need. Teaching was a fifth career for my and I am glad, I have never seen so much stress and hate placed on teachers before by the administration. Poor Jane Ajabu, she will now become another weed checker or just visit her son in prison daily? I am so sorry that many of my fellow teachers feel trapped and abused, Dr. White will rot in hell for his hate, the red Gucci slippers will look great in the flames. Are we sure Dr. White is not gay?
ReplyDeleteI think they are targeting the teachers who are not doing their jobs. Good luck in the sub pool, ya'll. LOL.
ReplyDeleteLook for the Principal at Tech, S. Bogard, to be gone very soon. The Tech community, parents and staff are very weary of the out of control violence and her inability to enforce the dress code and the discipline policy.
ReplyDeleteThe principal at Washington is one of the laziest humans around, there was no doubt he would someday find a cosh job downtown.
ReplyDeleteJust goes to show.
Have heard the Washington principal is going to be the new AD and football coach at Tech.
ReplyDeleteAjabu is being replaced by Dr. Kendrick, Rocky Grismore is taking Linda Casey's job, Keith Burke is going to Tech as Athletic director.
ReplyDeleteMore changes to come. Stay tuned.
Why are these people just being moved? Why is it that the have job guarantees?
ReplyDeleteSo where is Victor Buch going then? He is the AD at Tech right now. I am sure they will give him a job downtown. I believe he has relatives in the system.
It was being talked about (rumored yesterday) that he (Victor Bush) will be taking over IPS Athletics downtown. Not sure of the validity in the rumor though.
ReplyDeleteWhy are non of these jobs not being posted as policy states. They can have there candidates but at least put on the "show" of following district guidelines. Posting positions and letting people interview.
Heck, there may be someone out there that is more qualified who would apply.
This is nothing but the good ole' boys system at work.
So what are they doing with do nothing Gerry McLeish?
ReplyDeleteVictor Bush is going downtown....McLeish has been invisible since his major screwup with the AVID conference this past summer.
ReplyDeleteVictor Bush has been an AD for 9 weeks! That is ridiculous. What is he going to be doing downtown? Who is he related to?
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable.
IPS has become really sad. In order for there to be true change and improvement, we need to start from the top and work our way down.
ReplyDeleteI no longer think that being taken over by the State would be such a bad idea.
Let me get this straight-
ReplyDeleteVictor Bush is taking Curt Ervin's job? Where is he going?
How on Earth will he be able to run a district Athletic program when he does not have even 1/2 a year's experience running a school athletic program?
He must have made it on the VIP list, along with idiots like Dexter Suggs.
The entire secondary education department is being revamped. Kendricks is in a heap of trouble due to a lack of academic achievement during her regime. It is rumored that last week she made all secondary principals leave their buildings during school hours to go Marian University to hear her speak. The fun part is that was not the primary speaker...
ReplyDeleteDid Big Daddy give a lecture?
ReplyDeleteMy God, the management style of IPS is one that needs to be recorded and explored for better times by Michael Moore. Our only hope is that Dr. White finds the perfect purple Guccie shoes in Chicago, that way he can save IPS? This is so funny and sad as its so true, sounds just like Enron?
ReplyDelete...don't you mean the mismanagement style???
ReplyDeleteWhen do Hunchback and Toad get their pink slips?
ReplyDeleteWould that "mismanagement style" be like our "dis-Advantage'd" insurance? I spent $57 for 30 pills yesterday....antidepressants, of course. I hate to see what the 90-day supply will cost from CVS (and where do we mail our prescriptions next year?)
ReplyDeleteIt cracks me up that a lot of you are responding to these rumors like they are actually going to happen. I have seen many rumors on this site posted that never came to pass. Unless there is a poster who has a lot of inside information, I believe non of this is going to happen. For example there was a huge rumor at Tech on Friday that Sarah was getting replaced by Suggs because his name was accidently put on the Tech website as principal. It was simply an error between reading ATHS and ACHS.
ReplyDeleteWhere is Linda Casey going in the move?
ReplyDeleteLinda Casey is taking a job in the private sector, where they need a liar and jerk to run their personal department.
ReplyDeleteWhere is Peggy Penn working now? I heard she is no longer in IPS Human Resources...............
ReplyDeleteMany of the people announced the changes Friday...that must have been the date that their were told they could tell their friends and staff of the changes......Sarah Bogard is expected to announce that she is retiring very very soon. Who knows who will be at Tech in January?
ReplyDeleteand the wheels goes round and round.
ReplyDeletePeggy Penn is at Shortridge .....she goes from one mess to another.
ReplyDeleteDon't be surprised if the Indiana Department of Education starts turning up the heat on Eugene White. Hang it up Eugene!!!
ReplyDeleteWow...all the hateful and spiteful comments are really not fair. They have nothing to do with the work the people do. It was epecially so mean-spirited to make such hateful comments about Jane Ajabu's situation in her personal life. I hope that all of you who throw these "stones" are above reproach yourselves....and, no, I am not from downtown and I have NO connections with anyone "higher up" - just a fellow teacher who is saddened by the lack of professionalism and hatred that is being spewed. May you never find yourselves in the position of being on the receiving end of such vindictive remarks.
ReplyDeleteIf you are really a teacher then you are already on the receiving end of vindictive remarks. Just like the rest of the faculty, you have been degraded and belittled by vindictive remarks by Eugene White and many of his hit people. Look at that mean spirited and manipulating vice principal at Washington who may become our new principal..........she hates teachers and enjoys verbally attacking them.
ReplyDeleteOh, I made the remarks about Jane Ajabu's situation with her son, as she has tried to use her position at IPS to help her son. Her son killed three young folks, and not once did she state he was in the wrong. Yes, she tried pushing elected office holders to help her son, while at work at IPS. Jane turned into a nasty hateful person and would not help a soul while running personel into the ground, that has too many unfavorable lawsuits that will cost IPS.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Erin Farrell? She's in Human Resources as well. Haven't heard about her yet, but if the department is being revamped, is she going too?
ReplyDeleteThere is something that has been on my heart for a while that I want to address on this blog. By no means does this apply to everybody, but it does apply to a great many of you ( at the school where I teach and perhaps at others.) Until this year, I have never taught at a high school. I have always been at a K-8 or middle school. Back in August, when I read the negative comment Dr. White made about high school teachers as to why high school students were not achieving, no one was more pissed off than me. However, I am sad to say that after 90 days in an IPS high school, I have to agree with him. Of course, it is not all the fault of the teachers, but some high school teachers are totally gutless. Why do they allow students to bring iPods to class and openly listen to them? Why do they allow them to text message thier friends during class? Some have enough food in their backpacks to feed a small picnic, but NOTHING IS EVER SAID! I have tried, but apparently I am in the minority. I have been openly challenged by the students that tell me many teachers let them do like they want and I have learned this is true. One student even told me that the Dean had told him it was not a school rule that students could not eat in class.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of high school teachers just don't want the hassle of challenging the students--perhaps, because they won't get any backing from the administration. On Friday, a student yelled " Goddamn" in my face. I pursued this student down the hall--of course, not a single student was going to identify this student ( They're not snitches, you know!)--and teachers stood at their doors with the " See no evil" look on their faces. I never caught up with him. I was so hurt, and have continued to be hurt by my colleagues lack of response. Part of what Dr. White is saying about us it TRUE! Whether we like it or not, it is true. We--teachers & administrators-- are failing our students. So I guess, I will become apathetic like the rest of you, bide my time, teach my class and wait until March so I can put in for a transfer.
To the above poster, I whole heartedly agree with your note. I make an Online Behavior Referral for each infraction of the Six Step Discipline code. Too often I hear fellow teachers complain about 'such and so' student being soooo bad in their classes; however, when I'm making an Online referral for that particular student, I notice that I'm usually the only person who's taken the time to record the behavior incident. Perhaps many of these teachers are innately weak persons; I don't know. But, I do know that unless we stand up and show some old-fashioned spunk, then our high schools will never raise their achievement levels. Teaching in IPS is not for the apathetic or for sissies.
ReplyDeleteI think the problem is that Dr.
ReplyDeleteWhite does not want the discipline policy followed. When you make several referrals and nothing is done, it becomes disheartening....Sometimes the student is back in class before you finish submitting the referral, it becomes disheartening. When you submit a referral and the required administrative action steps are NEVER entered on the computer form, it becomes disheartening. When the dean or the prinicpal agrees that the behavior is outrageous but says that the superintendent wants to keep the referrals and suspensions down, it becomes disheartening. When you submit a referral after doing everything you know to do and the dean or principal tells you that it is your fault, it becomes disheartening. I understand why teachers stop wasting their time in using the time consuming forms.
It has become very disheratening for me.
ReplyDeleteWhen will Mary Louise Bewely be replaced? She really needs to go..............covering up for Dr. White's lies!
ReplyDeleteShe is the district PR person. If she were fired, then another one just like her would be hired. That's what PR people do; put a positive spin on whatever happens. She's doing what she's paid to do. She's only the messenger.
ReplyDeleteI'll believe there is a List of Mediocre Teachers who are slated to be moved to the substitute ranks when I see it actually happen. I agree there are several teachers who are burned out, rusted out, and/or just not in the right career field; however, if they're removed from their positions, then who will fill their spots? Seriously, folks, think about that. Where will IPS find replacement teachers who are fully certified, competent, and available? They won't; they can't. They are trying to scare teachers.
ReplyDeleteThey can always fill in with the 5 week wonders. Those uncertified people who go to five weeks training and then are placed in the classroom. The problem is that they leave pretty quickly also.
ReplyDeleteYou noticed that IPS is advertising heavy for the "Teacher Fellows", most of them leave IPS within the first two years, after their schooling is almost paid for by their service. I loved the one that worked at Howe, then left after two years for a township school, while Dr. White talked highly of his work?
ReplyDelete"Those uncertified people who go to five weeks training and then are placed in the classroom. The problem is that they leave pretty quickly also." from above
ReplyDeleteI think the question about replacement teachers has been answered. It can't be done. It's all a scare tactic. IPS can't even find teachers for the Cadre, at this point. The Cadre numbers have dwindled to practically nothing, and IPS continues to advertise for these positions. Initially the plan was to have a large number of eager young Cadre Teachers who would slip into the teachers' spots on the purported Mediocre List. Well, that idea no longer is feasible because the Cadre Teachers did not wait around for that to occur. They found jobs elsewhere early-on in the year.
I saw a cadre person last week at my school. This person was a classroom teacher there the year before and they were fired in the middle of the year. Now they are back as a cadre member.
ReplyDeleteWhat is Peggy Penn doing at Shortridge? Is she a home ec teacher again?
ReplyDeletePeggy Penn's name and email do NOT show up in the IPS Groupwise address list. Sounds like she is no longer in the district at all unless she has a different or new last name.
ReplyDeleteBe careful what you wish for. After numerous complaints on this blog about a certain out-of-control elementary school, things got worse. After the principal was written up several times by her director, she got fired-up and started on the staff. The principal went around to all the classrooms and told the students that since SHE had been written up because they were too selfish to follow the dress code, and she needed her job and her paycheck, she was going to start writing up the teachers for the same things. If she saw a shirt untucked, or someone chewing gum, their teacher would be written up. SHE TOLD ALL OF THE STUDENTS THIS. And IPS wonders why teachers leave in droves? Why the teaching fellows can't stand it, and leave as soon as they can? Why people don't want to be in the cadre? Yeah, go ahead and fire people, IPS. WHO do you think is eagerly waiting in the wings to be degraded and abused?
ReplyDeleteWould this by any chance be the same principal who yelled out, "F**k her. She can bite me," (referring to Jackie Clancy telling students not to have their coats on their chair-backs) during a staff meeting last year?
ReplyDeleteIt's Hattiex-Penn. Groupwise says she's a sub.
ReplyDeleteThe big questions is: Does this principal referenced above still work in IPS? Give us the name, please. We need a warning.
ReplyDeleteJust have to love IPS, out of control administrators, and not a single person at the wheel of the ship that is headed for the edge world.
ReplyDeleteI heard Penn has left the IPS District.........guess she got tired of all the BULLSH_T!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have worked in districts in several different states, and nowhere have I encountered so-called educated adults who behave 'trashy' or 'ghetto' like here in IPS and yet remain on the payroll. Everything that occurs here in IPS lies directly at the feet of the Superintendent. If he knows that one of the principals said 'f##k her, she can bite me.' in a public meeting and he does not fire that principal, then our superintendent is not worth the salt in his bread.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the same person called the girl a B----....and White knows.............and the person still works in the Ed. Center!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, for heaven's sake. Is all this stuff really so hard to believe? It's been my experience that there are those who do as they please with no repercussions, and those who can't get a fair shake. For example. Say there are two teachers who teach the same way, grade the same way, have the same amount of experience. Now, say the principal likes one and hates one. The teacher who is well liked will get the best evaluation, the easiest duty schedule, the best class roster, while the other, disliked teacher will get sucky things in all these areas. I've seen it happen over and over, year after year, school after school. Fair? Hell no. but how many things in this system ARE done fairly?
ReplyDeleteWow. Some b.s. rumors are thrown up by the union teachers on their way out, and the rest of the bobble-headed malcontents wobble their heads in agreement. What a joke.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jane Kendrick.....you never disappoint us with your anti teacher drivel...and where will you be employed next year????
ReplyDeleteThe way you make teachers look bad, I think YOU are Jane Kendrick.
ReplyDeleteI heard Peggy Penn is going to sub at Shortridge, but for who? Brandon Cosby?
ReplyDeletePeggy might have retired.
ReplyDeletePeggy Penn has an office at Shortridge but I have no idea what her job is....it may be to try and organize the daily chaos and last minute thrown together decisions.
ReplyDeleteIf teachers don't follow their principals directive then they should be written up. I just don't understand what all the fuss is about. Dress uniforms have helped especially in the elementary school. It's just too bad the teachers don't dress better.
ReplyDeleteWho in the world is talking about uniforms? Are you some administrator trying to change the subject??? What do you propose when the same student has been written up 23 times for dress code violations and not one has ever been dealt with...You seem to think you have all of the answers then answer that one!!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the daily chaos at Shortridge?
ReplyDeleteWe do not have uniforms anywhere...we have a dress code (more or less, mostly less). Uniforms might work if it is consistency we are talking about but the dress code is just too vague and unrealistic in some ways. By the way, someone was talking about dress code earlier and I think the above poster just interpreted that as uniforms - which in the elementary school is probably more true because the students do not try to add their own personal "signature" to the dress code. And...is there ever really a time that the subject doesn't change -- why are you getting so upset thinking that some administrator is trying to change the subject - ahould the only subject here be "gossip". In which case, it should be changed...not everyone who thinks that is an administrator...some are your co-workers.
ReplyDelete"should" not "ahould" above
ReplyDeleteI am not an IPS teacher, but as an interested observer who supports public school teachers - I wonder if someone could answer this question for me?
ReplyDeleteI don't recall ever having seen an IPS union official on television explaining the teachers' side of things in the various IPS controversies.
Occasionally, I will see a couple of sentences from an IPS official in a newspaper article. But most of the public gets their information from the TV, not newspapers these days.
Why are IPS teachers' union officials seemingly not more "out there" making their case in public for the embattled and abused IPS teachers?
It seems that very few people will go public to advocate for the much-abused IPS teachers. But these union officials are getting paid.....so, ????????
Again, I ask this question as someone who is not a teacher.
The union president is a close personal friend of Eugene White. He supported her in her election to the job. AW = bought and paid for by Eugene White.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I am a non-teacher, but an IPS teacher supporter:
ReplyDeleteI just found out about this blog today (from the Indy Star website) and I think it is a great idea and glad to see so many teachers dialoguing.
I have degrees in both mental health and physical health fields and this blog should serve to be a good "venting" outlet as well as a place where teachers can go so they don't feel so isolated in their situations.
Being a part of a "community" is a good thing - especially when that community is made up of unappreciated and harassed people (such as IPS teachers).
I have heard from a variety of sources that IPS teachers have a very high rate of serious physical stress-related health issues as well as a high rate of depression and anxiety disorders.
Is that something that the current IPS administration and school board can take pride in?
Which IPS elementary school is located in the Fountain Square area? They are getting an interim principal. He's a retired administrator who was a principal in Hancock County. He will be there for the remainder of this school year and will be paid on a daily basis. His name is Mike Hanna.
ReplyDeleteI think there is a Mike Hanna who is a coach at Broad Ripple right now...
ReplyDeleteIt's true that the principal at that out of control elementary school commonly uses the f*** word. I was shocked the first time I heard her use it at a staff meeting. No one ever called this principal on her use of profanity (as far as I know). At practically every staff meeting last year, she used profanity. Thank goodness this is now coming to light.
ReplyDeleteHow about firing some of those teachers who use their positions to get their hooks into some poor, unsuspecting man? There's a teacher at School 3* who has had more men on the job than some of the professional ladies of the night. Right now, she's stringing some poor guy along because she if fairly good looking and much younger than him, using him as a "sugar daddy". She came from another school in which she operated in much the same way.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this would all be OK if she were a hard working, dedicated teacher, but she really has no interest in the children either. She's just collecting a paycheck because she needs the money.
It's time for administrators to get rid of teachers who really don't care about the students.
"I think there is a Mike Hanna who is a coach at Broad Ripple right now..."
ReplyDeleteNo. Wrong man. The Mike Hanna who will be taking over the elementary school in the Fountain Square area is a retired principal who never ever worked in IPS. He was an administrator in Hancock county.
I hare downtown is gonie fire all the teachers and has the Kelly Serices staff the schoolls. This be Dr. White sectary making $70,000 per year, I be doing likeing the money. We be changing the directions of IPS, with our pockets full of cash. Do ye no where Dr. White can find some sixe 12 blue gucic shoes?
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you about that promiscuous teacher. Administrators (and other teachers)look the other way when it comes to her supercilious behavior. Whatever happened to teachers being role models?
ReplyDeleteWhat about that principal who uses profanity at teacher's meetings? Shouldn't a principal also be a role model? Whatever happened to common sense?
ReplyDeleteok, what principal talks like that, using profanity?
ReplyDeleteand...what school is this hanna person taking over?
"I hare downtown is gonie fire all the teachers and has the Kelly Serices staff the schoolls. This be Dr. White sectary making $70,000 per year, I be doing likeing the money. We be changing the directions of IPS, with our pockets full of cash. Do ye no where Dr. White can find some sixe 12 blue gucic shoes?"
ReplyDeleteIs this a joke???
The profanity principal is at one of those schools that will become a magnet school in 2011 (mentioned in the newspaper last week). It's the one in which students were caught stealing laptops about a month ago.
ReplyDeleteAre you talking about School 60??? Be careful of the stampede from Washington Community School if the evil manipulating teacher hating vice principal is named as the new principal. The demand for transfer forms will cause that stampede.
ReplyDeleteHey, blogmaster...Can we get a new topic?
ReplyDeleteWhere is 15's prinicipal? He hasn't been at school since last Tuesday?
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't surprise me that the principal at 60 acts and speaks like that. She also has a large "hoe stamp" tattoo on her back, which is visible whenever she bends over. Classy, classy.
ReplyDeleteI think we need to keep this topic until the game of administrative musical chairs ends. I am anxious to find out who doesn't have a chair when the music stops.
ReplyDeleteThe principal at school #60 cusses all of the time, and uses the word dude like I use the word and.
ReplyDeleteThe principal at #15 must be doing some parish work. Either that, or he has sunk his teeth into one of the Central Office women.
Does the promiscuous teacher you are speaking of teach on the Southside?
It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to find out what's really up at school #60. Just send out a certain board member, who's been dissed on this blog before, to see a certain teacher there, who's defended him on the same blog. She'd tell him anything he needed to know.
ReplyDeleteAre you referring to the school board member whose son who soaked parts of Northwest High School with fire extinguishers?
ReplyDeleteThat's the one. His son used a fire extinguisher and sprayed the gym walls! That is a misdemeanor - he used emergency personnel equipment for a non-emergency. It's a good thing he has Yarrell to clean up his messes.
ReplyDeleteThe same Board member - who is also the Prez - has been known to harass teachers into passing his children. He is wreaking havoc at Northwest.
It looks as if #60 has some mean spirited teachers working there. They need to go somewhere else and let the professional teachers teach.
ReplyDeleteProfessional Teachers at #60? Are you one? Word is around the district #60 is a very bad place to be.
ReplyDeleteWow, these comments are scary.
ReplyDeleteO.K., know-it-all. What is your definition of a "Professional" teacher?
ReplyDeleteThat is right..attack the teachers...teachers are to blame for everything......Eugene and his cast of misfits are perfect and have the correct answer for everything.....and if believe that then believe that the school board has a collectiveIQ of about 50!!! Just enough points to bob their heads up and down.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you say to a teacher who brings up this blog at a STAFF MEETING?? ...Me thinks the lady doth protest too much. :)
ReplyDeleteTo above poster --- Me thinks she doesn't have a life.
ReplyDeleteI think it depends on what was said about the blog in the staff meeting. Can you elaborate?
ReplyDeleteNope. The two-faced gossip knows what she said.
ReplyDeleteOh, what a tangled web we weave, when to others we make a failed attempt to deceive.
I read more truths about IPS on this blog than are spoken in most staff meetings.
ReplyDeleteI did hear today at our staff meeting that the high schools will have study halls beginning 2nd semester. Anybody else hear this yet?
ReplyDeleteWOW Please look at yourself before trashing others. Lets stick to topics and leave people out of this. Some people have nothing better to do but be mean.
ReplyDeleteHow is it that 8 years ago IPS only had two asst. superintendents and one superintendent. Now with White we have one super, at least 3 asst. and numerous directors and high paying jobs. However, they have to use a workbook "Springboard" at the high school to teach the students how to color. The "Springboard" coach taught one semester of English and now she is the know all to tell the English teachers what to teach.
ReplyDeleteGo IPS Teachers. I teach in a township school and I thought it was bad. Keep fighting the good fight!
ReplyDeleteFor the comment above. The Springboard coach did what all great and upcoming IPS leaders do to move up to the top. She was bad at her job, made the school look stupid, spent to much money, got her sins covered by the administration. She is now in the man group and may be the next director of English. Way to go Oliver.
ReplyDeleteI will pray for all of you. I saw a lot during my 30 years. I will also pray for those who have to work with Dr. White in the Ivory Tower. I hear that he isn't very respectful of them either. If you heard his first opening day speech, you will remember that he informed everyone that he was already "famous". There is a life after IPS. The problem is if you can survive long enough to get to experience it.
ReplyDeleteI almost hate reading this blog sometimes. Its like I am drawn to it because I am an IPS teacher but I must say, that I love my school, I LOVE my principal, I love and respect the staff that I work with, and I even love and adore our children as crazy as they drive me each day! I have taught in 12 different schools in IPS and I guess I have been fortunate enough to never have to witness any of the things that have gone on here on this blog. All I can say is not every school in IPS is this bad for those of you who are just reading and not involved in all this drama. Not blaming anybody for posting, obviously many of you need somewhere to vent but just so you know, most of this stuff does not go on at all the schools.
ReplyDeleteThese teachers are teaching in one of the worst school districts in the country and you still have time to write on a blog. I notice that some of you should go back and learn how to spell or write your comment in word, spell check it and then cut and paste.
ReplyDeleteI too, like my school, our students, staff, and principal. We have very little chaoas; if it's there, it's weeded out. If you are so unhappy, I suggest hitting the doe website and looking elsewhere. IPS has been good to me!
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